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Land Day
6 June, 2009
Bonn, Germany
The UNCCD Secretariat is convening a one-day event titled “Land Day” on the margins of the climate change talks scheduled in Bonn between 1 and12 June 2009.
The event provides the opportunity for climate change negotiators to consider in depth the linkages between climate change and desertification, land degradation and drought.
Discussions will focus on the contribution of sustainable land management to climate change adaptation and climate change mitigation and adaptation through soil carbon sequestration and will consider ways to enable low-income natural resource users to access the low-carbon economy.
Participants will include: Rattan Lal, Ohio State University; Paul Vlek, University of Bonn; Bo Kjellén, former Chief negotiator in the Ministry of Environment, Sweden; Daniel Martino, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and Roberto Acosta, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Land Day is sponsored by: the German Federal Ministry for Cooperation and Economic Development (BMZ); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ); and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC): and is being organized in partnership with the Global Mechanism (GM) of the UNCCD; the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
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