WOCAT participation at the UNCCD COP15

FOOD DAY: THURSDAY 12 MAY, 16:00 – 17:00

Guardians of our planet – the impact of women and indigenous groups to achieve LDN targets in Food Systems transformation.

Organized by WWF.

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GENDER CAUCUS: FRIDAY 13 MAY, 13:00 – 15:00

Role of the Gender Caucus in accelerating the implementation of the Gender Action Plan & way forward.

Organized by UNCCD.

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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY (GEF) HALF-DAY: FRIDAY 13 MAY, 8:00 – 12:00

Contribution in Session 3 “LDN: where we go from there”.

Organized by GEF.

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SCIENCE DAY: SATURDAY 14 MAY, 16:00 – 17:00

Nature-based solutions and drought risk management. Contribution in session 3.

Organized by UNCCD Science Policy Interface.

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SAND AND DUST STORMS DAY: MONDAY 16 MAY, 9:00 – 12:30,

Contribution in session: Adaptation and Mitigation - UNCCD SDS toolbox

Organized by: UNCCD, FAO

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LAND RESTORATION DAY: TUESDAY 17 MAY, 14:15 – 15:45

Cost and benefit data on Sustainable Land Management (SLM) - launch of a new GIZ/ELD-UNCCD-WOCAT tool.

Organized by GIZ/ELD.

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LAND RESTORATION DAY: TUESDAY 17 MAY, 17:45 – 19:15

Land Degradation Neutrality reporting, target setting and monitoring: Experiences from Ecuador, Turkey and Kazakhstan in co-developing and applying FAO-WOCAT tools at national level for LDN.

Organized by Ecuador.

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GRASSLAND EVENT: FRIDAY 13 MAY, 11:00 – 12:30

Life-giving lands: a roadmap for land restoration and food security in the grasslands, rangelands, and savannahs

Organized by: IUCN. 

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WEDNESDAY 11 MAY, 18:00 – 20:00, MET-12

FAO: State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW21) – Launching the full report.

Organized by FAO.

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THURSDAY 12 MAY, 18:00 – 20:00, MET-12

Scaling out Turkey's lessons learnt on combating land degradation: an overview of land degradation neutrality in Europe and Central Asia.

Organized by Turkey.

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FRIDAY 13 MAY, 13:00 – 15:00, MET-13

Evidence-based decision making for Life on Land - Scenarios for Integrated Land Use Planning.

Organized by GIZ.

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SATURDAY 14 MAY, 11:30 – 13:30, MET-11

Integrated approaches for SLM in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia.

Organized by IFAD.

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MONDAY 16 MAY, 13:00 - 15:00, MET-14

Launch of the new UNCCD-WOCAT gender-responsive SLM tool and discussions with its developers and users

Organized by WOCAT.

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MONDAY 16 MAY, 13:00 – 15:00, MET-14

Securing Land Tenure Rights to Achieve Land Degradation Neutrality, Land-based Adaptation, and Responses to Drought.

Organized by GIZ.

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MONDAY 16 MAY, 13:00 – 15:00, MET-11

Establishing the SLM Progress Calculator as a recognized LDN monitoring tool to measure systemic progress along an SLM trajectory.

Organized by South Africa.

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WEDNESDAY 18 MAY, 13:00 – 15:00, MET-13

National implementation of the Tools4LDN workflow in Colombia.

Organized by Colombia.

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THURSDAY 12 MAY, 16:00 – 17:00, CSFD IRD AND CARI BOOTH

Demo: Ηow to plan towards 2030 Land Degradation Targets? A one-hour hands-on session on the LUP4LDN tool.

Organized by SCiO.

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