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Arid Land Ecosystems and Climate Change 11 December 2009 - 11 December 2009
Copenhagen, Denmark Arid land ecosystems account for around 30% of the world’s surface area and span all continents. More than one billion people whose lives and livelihoods depend on these very fragile ecosystems face the serious threat of climate change. Recently, the number and intensity of extreme weather events has increased sharply, resulting in the severe erosion of the production base of these lands. Global warming models predict acceleration of these impacts in the future. Although efforts have been made to stabilize dryla... Read more
CACILM Steering Committee Meeting 30 October 2007 - 31 October 2007
Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic The Global Mechanism will contribute to the first Steering Committee of the Central Asian Initiative for Land Management (CACILM) on 30 and 31 October 2007 in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, by articulating the resource mobilization strategy for phases 2 and 3 of CACILM. CACILM aims to implement a more comprehensive, integrated approach to sustainable land management (SLM) that will produce benefits at the local, national, and global levels. The Steering Committee meeting has been called to as... Read more
COP 9: Ninth Session of the Conference of Parties 21 September 2009 - 02 October 2009
Buenos Aires, Argentina The ninth session of the Conference of Parties (COP 9) will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 21 September to 2 October 2009, hosted by the Government of Argentina. The eighth session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 8) and the ninth session of the Committee on Science and Technology (CST 9) will run alongside COP 9. It is fully anticipated that COP 9 will generate a dynamic and highly constructive debate on a number of key issues including: a review of t... Read more
Cameroon national finance workshop 02 September 2009 - 04 September 2009
Kribi, Cameroon A national workshop on Designing Integrated Financing Strategies (DIFS) - jointly organized by the Ministry for Environment and Nature Protection (MINEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Mechanism (GM) - will be held in Kribi, Cameroon from 2-4 September 2009. The workshop, which will bring together key stakeholders across various sectors, aims to exchange knowledge and build capacity on how to upscale finance for SLM. DIFS workshops are becoming a key instrument for the GM and its partners to bett... Read more
Workshop on Local Development and Natural Resource Management in Arid Zones 30 September 2008 - 30 September 2008
Paris, France A workshop on Local Development and Natural Resource Management in Arid Zones will be held in Paris on 30 September 2008, organized by the French Working Group on Desertification (Groupe français de Travail sur la Désertification - GTD) with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Global Mechanism (GM). Participants will include several French and African local communities, representatives of French institutions involved in the process, including the Ministry ... Read more
Exploratory Dialogue on Promoting Sustainable Land Management through Trade 31 January 2007 - 01 February 2007
Geneva, Switzerland Exploratory Dialogue on "Building an Enabling Environment for Increasing Investment in Sustainable Land Management through Market Access and Trade" An initiative of the Global Mechanism of the UNCCD in collaboration with ICTSD This workshop is convened by the Global Mechanism in collaboration with the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), and will take place in Geneva, on 31 January and 1 February 2007. The meeting will discuss ways of promoting ... Read more
International Workshop on the Economic & Social Costs of Desertification 04 December 2006 - 05 December 2006
FAO HQs, Rome, Italy The GM is co-financing a two-day international workshop on the economic and social costs of desertification, to be held in Rome at the Headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on 4 and 5 December 2006. The setting Desertification is both human-induced and caused by the decline in rainfall that has been observed for 35 years, especially in Africa. Concurrently, public investments in agriculture and breeding have declines and private funding is very low. Despite considerable efforts by the affe... Read more
Screening of "Villages on the Front Line" on BBC World TV 10 November 2006 - 29 December 2006
 "Villages on the Front Line" documents how ordinary men and women in some of the poorest communities worldwide are finding ingenious ways to combat desertification and improve their livelihoods. This series has been produced as part of the 2006 International Year of Deserts and Desertification (IYDD) campaign, to focus attention on the struggle against land degradation and water shortages in affected countries around the globe. "Villages on the Front Line" is a joint initi... Read more
Désertif'Actions - International Forum on Desertification & Civil Society 21 September 2006 - 23 September 2006
Montpellier, France More than 200 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) involved in the sustainable development of drylands will meet in Montpellier, France from 21-23 September 2006, to exchange ideas and communicate the importance of their work to a broad audience of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), local authorities, international institutions and the private sector, in the framework of the International Ye... Read more
 
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