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Seventeenth Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 17)
4 - 15 May 2009
UN Headquarters, New York, US
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Highlights from Thursday, 7 May
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Photo: Constance Neely, Heifer International, UNCCD Executive Secretary Luc Gnacadja, and Thomas Rosswall, CGIAR Climate Change Challenge Programme, during a side event on options for mitigating and adapting to climate change in African drylands. |
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| Working Group 1: Preamble, Agriculture, Rural Development, Interlinkages, Cross-Cutting Issues and Means of Implementation |
| Left to right: Kathleen Abdalla, DSD, Working Group 1 Co-Chairs Kaire Mbuende and Tania Raguz, and Otto Gustafik, Secretariat. |
| Ghana, speaking for the G-77/China, on means of implementation (left photo). Kenya, speaking for the G-77/China on rural development. |
| Delegates from Switzerland and Canada. |
| The Czech Republic, for the EU, intervening on Means of Implementation. |
| Working Group 1 adjourned early after a first reading of the text to give delegates times to consult informally. |
| Working Group 2: Land, Drought, Desertification and Africa |
Anja Kallmeyer, Secretariat, and Working Group Co-Chair Ana Bianchi. |
EU delegates during the negotiations. |
| Delegates from the US consulting on the text (left photo) and Co-Chairs Javad Mansour and Ana Bianchi (right photo). |
| CSD Chair Verburg follows the negotiations from the back of the room (left) and
Pedro Andrade, Brazil, for the G-77/China (right). |
| Side Event: Climate Change in African Drylands: Adaptation and Mitigation Options, organized by UNDP, UNEP and the UNCCD Secretariat |
| Constance Neely, Heifer International, Thomas Rosswall, Steering Committee for the CGIAR Climate Change Challenge Programme, Veerle Vandeweerd, UNDP, Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary, UNCCD, Juanita Castano, UNEP, and Sergio Zelaya, UNCCD. |
| Veerle Vandeweerd, UNDP, chaired the session (right photo). |
| Executive Secretary Gnacadja addresses participants. |
| Juanita Castano, UNEP, and Sergio Zelaya, UNCCD. |
| Noura Fatchima, Niger, asks a question during the discussion (left). |
| Side Event: BA Policy Forum on Achieving Eco-effectiveness through Knowledge Sharing Systems, organized by the CSD Education Caucus with the Global Youth Action Network and the Government of Finland |
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