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Rejoice Thizwilondi Mabudafhasi, Deputy Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, South Africa |
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Zafar Adeel, Director of the United Nations University, International Network on Water, Environment and Health |
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Roberto Menia, Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Environment, Italy |
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Alejandro Jaques and Francisco Eduardo del Río López, Mexico |
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Carlos Minc Baumfeld, Minister of Environment, Brazil |
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Carlos Colacce, Minister of Housing, Zoning and Environment, Uruguay |
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John Kaputin, Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States |
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Carla del Ponte, Switzerland |
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Monique Barbut, Chief Executive Officer, GEF |
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Soledad Blanco, Director, EC Directorate General for Environment |
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Thakur Prasad Shrama, Minister of Environment, Nepal |
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Kausea Natano, Minister of Public Utilities and Industries, Tuvalu |
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Markku Aho, Facilitator of the CRIC contact group, Finland |
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Beatriz Bueno, Spain and Jozef Buys, Belgium |
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Klemens Riha, Co-Chair of Contact Group on Budget, Germany |
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Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Minister of Environment and Tourism, Namibia |
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Marcos Montoiro, UNCCD Secretariat |
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Jan McAlpine, Director, UNFF Secretariat |
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Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Minister of Environment and Tourism, Namibia, Octavio Pérez Pardo, Director of Soil Conservation, Argentina, Jan McAlpine, Director, UNFF Secretariat and Marcos Montoiro, UNCCD Secretariat |
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Homero Bibiloni, Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development of Argentina (right) |
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Azalia Arias, Civil Society |
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Wanda Lopez Trelles (right) won the Special Category on ‘Best Pictures Taken in Argentina’, for her picture entitled, “La sequía, problema de raíz” |
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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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