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Daily Web Coverage/Daily Reports/Summary & Analysis
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Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP11) “A stronger UNCCD for a Land-Degradation Neutral World”
16-27 September 2013 | Windhoek, Namibia
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Highlights for Monday, 16 September 2013
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The eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 11) opened on Monday afternoon, 16 September 2013, in Windhoek, Namibia. Welcoming delegates, COP 11 President, Uahekua Herunga, Minister of Environment and Tourism of Namibia, highlighted his country’s commitment to addressing desertification, land degradation and drought. Delegates also heard opening statements by COP 10 President Don Koo Lee, Minister of Korea Forest Service and UNCCD Executive Secretary Luc Gnacadja, as well as regional groups and civil society organizations.
Also taking place on Monday afternoon were four side events on: implementing UNCCD objectives – experiences from research; new tools to measure carbon and the GEF’s experience in applying the tools; variability matters in desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD) and sustainable land management (SLM) – Namibian farming in a variable environment; and challenges and solutions to managing the spread of invasive prosopis in dryland ecosystems. |
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OPENING PLENARY |
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UNCCD COP 11 SNAPSHOTS |
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Daily web coverage
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UNCCD resources
COP11 website
COP11 annotated agenda
COP11 documents
CST 11 provisional annotated agenda
CST 11 documents
CRIC 12 provisional agenda
CRIC 12 documents
Host country website
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of the UNCCD 2nd Scientific Conference, CST S-3 and CRIC 11, 9-12 and 15-19 April 2013, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS coverage of UNCCD COP 10, 10-21 October 2011, Changwon City, Republic of Korea
IISD RS summary of UNCCD CST S-2 and CRIC 9, 16-18 and 21-25 February 2011, Bonn, Germany (English: HTML - PDF) (French: HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of UNCCD COP 9, 21 September - 2 October 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina
IISD RS coverage of UNCCD CST S-1 and CRIC 7, 3-14 November 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) coverage of desertification negotiations
LAND-L - A news and announcement list on land policy issues
Land Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of International Activities Addressing Sustainable Land
Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
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