This year’s United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)'s Conference of the Parties (COP16) will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 2 to 13 December.
At UNCCD COP16, the nations of the world will meet to discuss, among others:
- Accelerating restoration of degraded land
- Boosting drought preparedness, response and resilience
- Scaling up nature-positive food production by protecting and restoring grasslands and rangelands
- Ensuring land continues to provide climate and biodiversity solutions
- Strengthening women’s right to land tenure to advance land restoration
- Promoting youth engagement, including decent land-based jobs for youth
This year, our institute will be sending a delegation of experts on various desertification, and land degradation and management issues. From climate change adaptation, and land and water management approaches to ecosystem-based approaches for integrating disaster risk reduction, our expertise cuts across many of COP16’s most urgent themes.
List of events
3 December
Opportunities for promoting synergies between Climate Change Adaptation and Land Degradation Neutrality within the National Adaptation Plan process - Insights from Saudi Arabia
Time: 12:30 PM AST
Venue: Science Stage
UNU presence: Yvonne Walz
Triggering Change for land restoration through higher education
Time: 3:30 PM AST
Venue: Restoration Pavilion / Blue Zone
UNU presence: Yvonne Walz
4 December
Innovative Techniques for Mapping and Monitoring Degraded Land Using Earth Observation
Time: 9:00 AM AST
Venue: GEO/GEO-LDN Stage
UNU presence: Navneet Kumar
A way forward to scale up ecosystem-based approaches for integrating disaster risk reduction, climate, land and biodiversity goals
Time: 5:45 PM AST
Venue: GEO/GEO-LDN Stage
UNU presence: Yvonne Walz
11 December
Leveraging Landscape approaches towards Policy Coherence
Time: 1:00 PM AST
Venue: GEO/GEO-LDN Stage
UNU presence: Suneetha Subramanian (UNU-IAS)
