It is clear land matters for climate mitigation and adaptation.
The land use sector represents almost 25% of total global emissions and these emissions can be reduced. There is also great potential for carbon sequestration through the scaling up, and scaling out, of proven and effective sustainable land management practices.
Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality (Sustainable Development Goal target 15.3) by restoring and rehabilitating 12 million hectares of degraded land per year could help close the emissions gap by up to 25% in the year 2030.
Climate-smart sustainable land management practices, such as low-emissions agriculture, agro-forestry and ecosystem conservation and restoration, nearly always come with adaptation co-benefits.
At the same time as sequestering carbon, their more efficient use of resources and inputs helps ensure greater food and water security. They help build community resilience and human security, reducing poverty and the drivers of migration and conflict.
It is time to talk about land. Follow the land related events at COP 21.
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Restoration Day
A unified UN approach for Forest and Landscape Restoration toward achieving SDG 15.
Date: 1 December
Venue: Rio Conventions Pavilion Climate Generations Area (Le Bourget)
Contact: L.Janishevski, lisa.janishevski@cbd.int
Rio Pavilion programme
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Date: 1 December;15:00-18:15
Venue: French Pavilion (TBC)
Co-organizers: France and FAO. Contacts: P. Canfin (pcanfin@gmail.com), S. Quatrini (squatrini@unccd.int)
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Global Initiative to address peatland degradation
A high-level panel debate on how to kickstart reductions of peat carbon emissions. Save the peat for less heat
Date: 1 December;15:15 – 16:15
Venue: The Netherlands Climate Pavilion, UNFCCC CoP 21, Paris (blue zone)
Contact: L. Baker (lbaker@unccd.int)
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The Great Green Wall: Growing a World Wonder
A high-level event with participation of GGW ministers of environment and development partners.
A Great Green Wall film, funded by the FLEUVE (EC) project, is being developed and will be screened at the opening of the event. In addition, a virtual reality film has been shot in Senegal showing the GGW taking shape. The ‘Experience the Wonder” virtual reality event will be launched for the first time in Paris and set up at the Le Bourget Exhibition Centre.
Date: 2 December;12:00-13:30
Venue: African Pavilion
The Great Green Wall initiative
Contact: C.Nordheim-Larsen (cnordheim@unccd.int)
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Global Landscapes Forum
Launching the first brief coming out of the GLO process.
Integrated Landscape Management and the SDGs: This event will feature the SDG target on Land Degradation Neutrality, the launch of a white paper on the SDGs on the integrated landscape management approach, and the screening of short films produced by the UNCCD, UNEP and the LPFN.
Date: 5-6 December ;
Venue: Palais des Congrès; Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Pavilion
Contact: S. Alexander (salexander@unccd.int)
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Global Landscapes Forum
Mobilizing finance for integrated landscapes initiatives: Three scalable financial instruments
Date: 6 December;15:30-17:00
Venue: EIB-CS Discussion Forum
GLobal Lndscapes Forum Agenda
Contact: Markus Repnik (mrepnik@unccd.int)
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For your ease of reference
The twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) will take place from 30 November to 11 December 2015, in Paris, France. The UNFCCC COP 21 page;
Events and exhibits page
Follow The Host country website All you need to know. Getting to Le Bourget, upcoming events, key dates
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Film Gala Event/ Avant-première <<DEMAIN>>
As part of the advocacy actions to promote the nexus between sustainable land management and climate change during the Paris Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP21), the UNCCD secretariat and the UGC France will organize a film gala event in Paris. At the gala, we will show the French film Demain, a documentary of positive stories on local people finding the ways to save the planet for future generations. The film is highly acclaimed by film critics. The producers of Demain, Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent, will introduce the film, moderated by Isabelle Giordano, President of Unifrance. The film is in French with English subtitles.
The entry is free for the first 100 seats with the COP21 conference badge.
** For security reasons, ALL visitors and their belongings will be checked when they enter Normandie cinema. Your kind understanding and cooperation would be much appreciated.
Date: 1 December 19.30 hrs
Venue: Cinéma UGC Normandie - 116 Bis Av. des Champs-Élysées, 75008 Paris (Metro stop: George V)
Contact: Yukie Hori (yhori@unccd.int)
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China’s Efforts to Combat Desertification and Climate Change – the Kubuqi Model of Creating Ecological Capital/Assets.
Stated objectives:
• Showcase China’s contribution to tackling climate change issues through combating land degradation;
• Share Kubuqi Model of creating ecological capital led by the Elion Group; and,
• Deep dive into how to mobilize necessary resources to deliver UN SDGs (including LDN Fund)
Date:1 December; 12:00-14:30
Venue: China Pavilion
Co-organizers : IUCN, The Climate Group, Elion Resources Group, Green Silk Road Fund
Contacts: L.Baker (lbaker@unccd.int); Y.Hori (yhori@unccd.int); S.Quatrini (squatrini@unccd.int)
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Geopolitical colloquim "War, Peace and Climate: will climate conflicts be the conflicts of tomorrow ?"
In partnership with Comité 21 et le Club France Développement durable. Discussing the consequences of land degradation and climate change on international security. Our scientific knowledge of the physical impacts of climate change is getting better what about the human impact? This session will look at whether climate change is a factor of major destabilization, or even crisis, and if so, in which context is it likely to cause armed conflict ?
Date-5th December
Venue – Grand Palais
Contact: L.Baker (lbaker@unccd.int)
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Gender Day
UNCCD will present the recommendations of its UNCCD COP12 Gender Day in relation to the recently adopted SDG target to halt land degradation, and the results of a global study jointly commissioned with UNDP that explores the land rights of drylands women, as well as their decision-making and their resilience as well as that of their ecosystems.
Date: 9 December
Venue: Rio Conventions Pavilion Climate Generations Area (Le Bourget)
Rio Pavilion programme
Contact: W.Wischnewski (wwischnewski@unccd.int)
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Sustainable Land Management and Soil Carbon Sequestration in Sub-Saharan Africa
Different stakeholders will join to present concrete initiatives which illustrate the co-benefits offered by agroecological practices and how sustainable land management can be an important component of the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) in Africa. The event will also feature the launch of a science-policy brief on soil carbon prepared by the UNCCD Science-Policy Interface (SPI), ( IRD)
Date: 1 December ; 5-7 pm
Venue: French Pavillion
Contact: V.Castillo (vcastillo@unccd.int); A.Erlewein (aerlewein@unccd.int)
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Mitigation by AFOLU and sustainable soil management: Identifying multiple benefits, perverse incentives and science/policy lags.
EU forests and agriculture thematic day ( EC- JRC).Event by the European Commission Joint Research Centre - Institute For Environment And Sustainability on the linkages between soil preservation and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Date: 1 December;16:30-18:00
Venue: EU PAVILION
Contact: A.Erlewein (aerlewein@unccd.int)
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Land Day: Land degradation neutrality as a solution to changing climate
Date : 2 December
Venue: Rio Conventions Pavilion Climate Generations Area ( Le Bourget)
Rio Pavilion programme
Contact: Y. Hori (yhori@unccd.int)
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Lima Paris Action Agenda Focus on Resilience
15:45 hrs.: Section VI “Major Initiatives to Increase Climate Resilience”
15 min - The Great Green Wall Initiative -- announcement of Parties involved in the initiative, signatures, commitments, projects and funding.
Date: 2 December
Venue: Le Bourget (the Blue zone)
Lima Paris Action Agenda
Contact: C.Nordheim-Larsen (cnordheim@unccd.int)
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Private Finance Day (LPAA Action Area)
Announcement of the LDN Fund
Date:4 December; 10:15-13:30
Venue: French Pavilion (TBC)
Lima Paris Action Agenda
Co-organizers : France; UNSG; and CDC Contacts: P. Canfin (pcanfin@gmail.com), S. Quatrini (squatrini@unccd.int)
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Artists 4 Paris Climate 2015
A charity auction of artworks from famous modern artists will be conducted by the premier International Auction House, Christie’s, together with the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), in support of actions against climate change and desertification. The value of the auction will be used to implement projects at the local level to combat desertification and climate change. Artists for Paris website
Date: 9 December @19.00
Venue: Christie’s
Contact: M.Montoiro (mmontoiro@unccd.int)
Tel: (+49 228) 815 2806 ;
Cell: +491732687595
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