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Daily Highlights
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Monday, 21 September - Tuesday, 22 September - Wednesday, 23 September - Thursday, 24 September - Friday, 25 September
Monday, 28 September - Tuesday, 29 September - Wednesday, 30 September - Thursday, 1 October - Friday, 2 October |
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Kelly Milton, United States |
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Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the UNCCD |
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Charles Hutchinson, moderator of the session on Working Group I’s work, presented an overview of the Group's activities. |
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James Reynolds, Duke University, presented on “Integrated science-based framework for monitoring and assessing desertification/land degradation processes and drivers.” |
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Report on DSD Working Group II
Monitoring and Assessing (M&A)Land Rehabilitation and Sustainable Land Management Efforts |
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Pedro Machado, EMBRAPA, presented on a land use and land management change framework for SLM, scientific methods for M&A of SLM and on factors of SLM. |
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Johannes Lehmann, Cornell University, talked about indirect methods for M&A of SLM, and stressed the importance of coordination among the three Rio conventions. |
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Hanspeter Liniger, WOCAT, presented on “Key concepts and issues in sustainable land management monitoring and assessment.” |
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Mary Seely, Desert Research Foundation of Namibia |
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Homero Bibiloni, Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development of Argentina and President of COP 9 opened, a well-attended side event on Desertification and Climate Change |
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Madiodio Niasse, ILC Director |
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The International Land Coalition (ILC) discussed the critical need to improve land governance to reduce land degradation and poverty. |
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Daily Highlights
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Monday, 21 September - Tuesday, 22 September - Wednesday, 23 September - Thursday, 24 September - Friday, 25 September
Monday, 28 September - Tuesday, 29 September - Wednesday, 30 September - Thursday, 1 October - Friday, 2 October |
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UNCCD resources
UNCCD website
UNCCD COP 9 homepage
UNCCD COP 9 agenda
UNCCD COP 9 official documents
UNCCD Global Mechanism
Global Environment Facility (GEF) resource
GEF website
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of UNCCD CST 1 and CRIC 7, 3-14 November 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
IISD RS coverage of the UNCCD High-Level Policy Dialogue, 27 May 2008, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS coverage of UNCCD COP 8, 3-14 September 2007, Madrid, Spain
IISD RS summary of the First Extraordinary Session of the COP, 26 November 2007, UN Headquarters, New York, US (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of UNCCD CRIC 5, 12-21 March 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina
IISD RS coverage of UNCCD COP 7, 17-28 October 2005, Nairobi, Kenya
IISD RS “Linkages” archive of desertification meetings
Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
MEA Bulletin - Newsletter on key MEAs and their secretariats
Climate Change Policy & Practice - News and information on the actions of international organizations in responding to the problem of global climate change
African Regional Coverage |
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