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Coverage
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GEF: Workshop on the GEF's land
degradation paper
This GEF-sponsored workshop focused
on a GEF paper "Clarifying linkages between land degradation
and the GEF focal areas: an action plan for enhancing GEF support"
The paper, which will be presented to the GEF council, documents the
threats and consequences posed by land degradation to the global environment;
clarifies the context and rationale of GEF activities supporting the
prevention and control of land degradation; sets out linkages between
land degradation and GEF focal areas (biodiversity, climate change,
international waters) and the scope of the
scope of GEF interventions; and identifies challenges to the development
and implementation of GEF supported activities in land degradation.
The paper also presents an action plan for addressing the challenges
and enhancing GEF support. The workshop was moderated by Hutton Archer,
GEF. Panelists included Paola Rossi, Scientific and Technical Advisory
Panel (STAP), who presented a report of the STAP Expert Group Workshop
on Land Degradation Interlinkages held in Bologna, Italy, 14-16 June,
Colin Rees, International Waters and Biodiversity, GEF, and Walter
Luisigi, GEF. |
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| Seated from left to right: Paola Rossi, Scientific
and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP), Hutton Archer, GEF, Colin Rees,
International Waters and Biodiversity, GEF, and Walter Luisigi, GEF |
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Hutton Archer, GEF, highlighted
the debate over whether to add a fifth focal area of land degradation
to the GEF focal points. He used an apple to illustrate that land
degradation already has three entry points to GEF funding (through
biodiversity, climate and international waters) and that if a fifth
were added, there would not be more funds flowing through the GEF
to land degradation..
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Walter Lusigi, GEF
Paola Rossi, STAP
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Saving the Drylands: Workshop
on Success Stories in desertification control
UNEP convened this workshop on success stories in
desertification control in the context of promoting sustainable
natural resource management by local communities in the drylands.
The workshop addressed achievements, constraints and lessons learned.
Presentations were made by success story award-winning project representatives
from Asia, Africa and Latin America. Opening remarks were made by
RIOD Coordinators
For more information on success stories or to request
reports contact elizabeth.migongo-bake@unep.org
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