Science Day at Rio Conventions Pavilion
Science for Action: Land Restoration and Drought
Science Day at UNCCD COP15 brings scientists, policy makers, practitioners, academia, media and representatives of civil society organizations and development organizations under theme ‘Science for Action: Land Restoration and Drought’. Science Day is organized by the UNCCD Science-Policy Interface.
CIFOR-ICRAF speakers
Opening
Science-Policy Interface Co-Chairs
UNCCD Executive Secretary
Cote d’Ivoire Representative
Reaching a Desirable Future
Setting the Scene
Moderators: Nichole Barger and Noel Oettle
- Imagining a desirable future: harnessing the Theory of Change to shed light on the pathways (and the barriers) that could impact on achieving that desirable future: Graciela Metternicht
- Restoration of degraded cocoa-landscapes in Côte d’Ivoire
Christophe Kouame, CIFOR-ICRAF
- Farmers are regreening African drylands – but how socially and ecologically sustainable is the functional diversity of what trees regenerate?
Fergus Sinclair, CIFOR-ICRAF
- Audience engagement
- Moderator reflection
Speakers: Lukwesa Burak, Nichole Barger and Noel Oettle
What We Measure We Can Manage Better
- Introduction to the Session
Moderators: Cheikh Mbow and Jean-Luc Chotte
- GEO-LDN: Supporting countries in monitoring land for planning and implementing LDN
Speaker: Antje Hecheltjen
- Monitoring Tree Cover Across Africa’s Great Green Wall: Challenges and Opportunities
Salima Mahamoudou
- Innovative multidimensional and multiscale assessment method to foster agroecological transition to restore the multifunctionality of land
Eric Scopel
- Audience engagement
Lukwesa Burak and Moderators
Coffee Break
The Next Generation of Key Actors
- Setting the Scene
Moderator: Ermias Betemariam, CIFOR-ICRAF
- Training the Next Generation of Scientists
Speaker: Dr Souleymane Konate
- Capacity Development and Stakeholder Engagement on Biodiversity and Land at the Science-Policy-Practice Interface in the African Context
Speaker: Sara Velander
- Global Landscapes Forum Restoration Stewards
Speakers: Adrian Leitoro, Dryland Restoration Steward and Salina Abraham, Global Landscapes Forum
- PhD programme aimed at strengthening national scientific capacities in developing countries to combat desertification and drought
Speakers: Meron Lakew Tefera and Chiara Ceseracciu
- Audience engagement
Speakers: Lukwesa Burak and Moderators
- Press engagement
Speakers: Press along with speakers and moderators
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - Implications for Drought Risk
- Opening of session
Moderator: tbd
- Working Group 1 – the Physical Science Basis
Speaker: Sergio Vincente-Serrano
- Working Group 2 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Speaker: tbd
- Q&A with panelists
Speakers: Lukwesa Burak – moderators and speakers
Measuring Progress Towards Drought Resilience
- Opening of the session
Moderator: tbd
- Assessment of Resilience of Ecosystems and Communities to Drought – SPI 2019-2021 report
Speaker: Mark Svoboda
- Regional law, national implementation: the case of drought monitoring and management in Italy in the frame of the European Directive on Water Resources
Speaker: Silvano Pecora
- Session title: tbd
Speaker: Natalie van Haren
- Understanding Drought Resilience with LandPKS
Speaker: Jeffrey Herrick
- Audience Engagement
Speakers: Lukwesa Burak and Moderators
Nature-Based Solutions for Drought Risk Reduction
- Opening of the session
Moderator: tbd
- Nature-based Solutions Project in Burkina Faso
Speaker: Chris Magero
- Drought relevant Sustainable Land Management practices from around the globe
Speaker: Tatenda Lemann
- UN Convention on Biological Diversity Nature-Based Solutions Project
Speaker: CBD Representative
- NbS in the Volta Basin Flood and Drought Management Project
Speaker: tbd
- Panel Discussion
Speaker: Lukwesa Burak, Moderators, and Speakers
- Reflection from Graphic Recorder
Speaker: Stephanie Heckman
- Reflections from a Journalist
Speaker: Lukwesa Burak
- Final Comments
Speaker: SPI Representative
- Press engagement
Speakers: Press with session speakers and moderator
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