Land Degradation – Adaptation Strategies and Financing Mechanisms
Panel Session
September 17, THU
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14:00 - 15:30
Practical approaches to establishing international cooperation on adaptation; prevention of soil degradation and integrated drought risk management; development of effective mechanisms for targeted financing and attracting private investment to land restoration projects; assessment of the economic returns from sustainable land-use programs and integration of successful practices into national development strategies.
Moderators
Irina Bakhtina
Director General, Volnoe Delo Foundation
Sergey Kononuchenko
Ambassador-at-Large of the Foreign Ministry and Foreign Minister’s Special Representative for Climate, Russian Federation
Speakers
Amjad Abdulla
Director General, Climate Change, and Chief Negotiator, Ministry of Climate Change, Environment and Energy, Maldives
Amilton Machado Costa
resident, National Association of PROMINP Graduates (ANDP); Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Planning, Energy Planning Program, COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
Nadezda Dementieva
Programme Officer (CEE and Central Asia), Secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Yomna El Sheridy
President, Businesswomen of Egypt 21 (BWE21)
Gladys Cecilia Hernandez-Pedraza
Head of Department on International Financing at the Centre for World Economy Studies (CIEM), Lead Author of 1st IPBES Global Report (2018), 7th UNEP Report on Global Environmental Outlook (GEO7-2025) and Lead Author of the 7th Report of IPCC (ongoing), Cuba
Rashail Ismayilov
Deputy Chairman of the Board, Scientific Research Institute of Water Management and Land Reclamation (WASRI), Azerbaijan
Rasio Ridho Sani
Senior Advisor to the Minister of Environment of Indonesia
Alexey Spirin
Director of Environmental and Climate Risk Management Department, En+ Group
* The Programme may be subject to change