Summary
UNCCD COP 13 participants reconvened during parallel morning and afternoon sessions, and discussed agenda items in the Committee on Science and Technology (CST) and the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC). Contact groups met in the afternoon and evening to discuss draft decisions related to the COP, CRIC and CST agendas.
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Committee on Science and Technology (CST)
L-R: Hamid Čustović, Bosnia and Herzegovina, CST Chair, and Carmen Margina, UNCCD Secretariat
Fortunée Worou, Benin
Mustafa Abdullah Yurtoglu, Turkey
María Angelica Fernandez, Colombia
Luca Montanarella, Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS)
Mariam Akhtar-Schuster, Science-Policy Interface (SPI)
Jean-Luc Chotte, SPI
Lu Qi, China
Mandakh Nyam, Mongolia
Francis Inganga, Kenya
Randolph Antonio Edmead, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saida Rivero, Venezuela
Alexander Erlewein, EU
Tshering Dorji, Bhutan
Gudrun Schwilch, Switzerland
Maxime Thibon, France
Jeff Herrick, US
Anne Larigauderie, Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
View of a presentation by Jeff Herrick, US
Robert Scholes, Co-Chair, IPBES Thematic Assessment of Land Degradation and Restoration (LDRA)
Graciela Metternicht, SPI
Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC)
Aliyu Bananda, Nigeria, CRIC Chair
Pradeep Monga, UNCCD Deputy Executive Secretary
Raymond Baptiste, Grenada, CRIC Rapporteur
Satu Ravola, UNCCD Secretariat
Markus Repnik, Managing Director, Global Mechanism (GM)
Emmanuel Seck, Enda Energie
Ana Di Pangracio, Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN)
Alberto Limo Segura, Peru
Biyana Kilibarda, Montenegro
Louisa Karika, Cook Islands
Abdu Al Assiri, Saudi Arabia
Jozef Buys, EU
Imad Almaree, Syria
Trevor Benn, Guyana
Ralalarimanana Herivololona, Madagascar
Chadi Mohanna, Lebanon
Andrei Kuzmich, Belarus
COP 13 Snapshots
L-R: Jozef Buys, EU, in a conversation with Barbara De Rosa-Joynt and Jeff Herrick, US
L-R: Mohammed Alzuhari, Iraq, in a discussion with Andrés David Córdova, Ecuador
L-R: Akiko Nakano and Atsushi Tsunekawa, Japan
Demonstration of a traditional Chinese block printing
Kelly Sharp, IISD Reporting Services/ENB, tries her hand at block printing
Chen Yishi, award winning master of block carving
Fatiha Sallahi, UNCCD Secretariat, with her team of local staff