The ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification are organising a high-level side event in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly.
The ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification are organising a high-level side event in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly.
The event will be an opportunity for member nations of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ to explore new ways to deliver ambitious, coordinated and accelerated action that will help achieve a land-degradation neutral world and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and support the Paris Agreement on climate change.
This event aims to:
- Showcase how climate vulnerable member countries are responding to land degradation, biodiversity loss and climate change.
- Identify options for joint action and synergy among Commonwealth members and the Rio Conventions.
- Forge a positive, action-based agenda in support of nature-based solutions in the run-up to the ‘Super Year for Nature’, which includes key global summits such as ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Heads of Government Meeting (June 2021), United Nations Biodiversity Conference, CBD COP15 (May 2021) and United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26 (November 2021).
Watch the highlights video
Programme
Opening remarks
- Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Executive Secretary, Ibrahim Thiaw
Keynote address
- UN Special Adviser and Assistant Secretary General for Climate Action, Selwin Hart (Keynote Speaker)
High-level panel
- Minister of Environment of Namibia, Pohamba Penomwenyo Shifeta
- Minister of Environment of Nigeria, Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar
- Minister-in-Charge of Climate Change of Pakistan, Malik Amin Aslam
- Minister for Economic Development, Housing, Urban Renewal, Transport and Civil of St Lucia, Herod Stanislas
- Deputy Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of Bangladesh, Begum Habibun Nahar
- Minister of Environment and Tourism of Rwanda, Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya
Reflections
- Minister of State for the Environment and the Pacific of the United Kingdom, Zac Goldsmith
- United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) Executive Secretary, Elizabeth Mrema
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary, Patricia Espinosa
Moderated by Ruth Kattumuri, Senior Director - Economic, Youth and Sustainable Development Division, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½.
For more information, please contact: [email protected]
Photo: IRRI. Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (cropped).
