DLDD (Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought) are closely interrelated with Climate Change. DLDD is the consequence of Climate Change. Globally, more than 110 countries are threatened by CC and DLDD. The world needs solutions to tackle these issues of CC and DLDD. This side event focusses on concrete measures to mitigate DLCC and adapt to CC.

Moderator: Yang Youlin, Visiting Professor of Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Speakers:

• Lei Jiaquiang
  Great Green Wall and Bio-Plantation
• Liu Tao, Chairman of Sinoway
  Revegetation by Air-seeding
• Peter Gilruth, Senior Advisor of CIFOR-ICRAF
  Agroforestry and Carbon Sink
• Yang Youlin
  CSO’s Efforts and Contribution to Combat Desertification
• Alishir Kurban, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography
• Mohamed Salem Elfleet, King Abdullah University,