Eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (COP 8)
3-14 September 2007 | Madrid, Spain
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Delegates to UNCCD COP 8 convened in a morning meeting of the Committee of the Whole and an afternoon ministerial round table, which discussed desertification and adaptation to climate change. The contact groups on programme and budget and the CRIC, and the Friends of the Chair Group on the ten-year strategic plan, met throughout the day.
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| Abdu Alassiri, Saudi Arabia | Stephen Randall, Canada | Pedro Cabal de Andrade, Brazil |
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| Gerardo Gunera-Lazzaroni, UNCCD Secretariat |
Ositadinma Anaedu, Nigeria, COW Chair |
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| COP 8 President Narbona chaired a ministerial round table on desertification and adaptation to climate change during the afternoon. Several speakers congratulated the UNCCD's Executive Secretary-designate, Luc Gnacadja, who was seated alongside them at the dais. L-R: Faumina Liuga (Samoa’s Minister of Natural Resources and Environment), Luc Gnacadja (UNCCD Executive Secretary-designate), Patrizia Sentinelli (Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Italy) and Laurent Sedego (Minister of Environment and Quality of Life, Burkina Faso). |
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COP 8 President Narbona: Chair of the ministerial round table. |
Patrizia Sentinelli, Deputy Minister, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, ITALY: "an instrument on drought and access to water" is needed. |
Ligia Dastro de Doens, General Administrator, National Environment Authority, PANAMA: the ecosystem management approach combats land degradation. |
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Humberto Rosa, Secretary of State, Ministry for Environment, Spatial Planning and Regional Development, PORTUGAL: All financing sources should be considered. |
Faumina Liuga, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, SAMOA: UNCCD needs to focus on climate change. |
Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change: political will is needed. |
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Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary, UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD): calls for "the development of adaptation tools". |
Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization: integrate "risk prevention" in national policy-making. |
Laurent Sedego, Minister of Environment and Quality of Life, Burkina Faso, called for a framework for dialogue at the international and regional levels to mobilize funding to address the linked issues of desertification and climate change. |
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| Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary-designate: climate change and desertification are among the greatest challenges of our time. |
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| The plenary room |
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| The ENB Team chatting with Grégoire de Kalbermatten, the Convention Secretariat’s Officer-in-Charge. | Participants in the plenary room. |
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| The Bayer Crop Science information stand. | Delegates and participants at the IFAD information booth. |
Web coverage:
Monday, 3 Sep - Tuesday, 4 Sep - Wednesday, 5 Sep - Thursday, 6 Sep - Friday, 7 Sep
Monday, 10 Sep - Tuesday, 11 Sep - Wednesday, 12 Sep - Thursday, 13 Sep - Friday, 14 Sep
- UNCCD COP 8 homepage
- COP 8 documents
- CST 8 documents
- CRIC 6 documents
- UN Secretary-General press release regarding Executive Secretary Diallo’s resignation
- UNCCD Global Mechanism
- Global Environment Facility
- IISD RS coverage of the Fifth session of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification’s Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 5), 12-21 March 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- IISD RS coverage of the Joint International Conference “Desertification and the International Policy Imperative”, 17-19 December 2006, Algiers, Algeria
- IISD RS coverage of the Seventh session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 7) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (CCD), 17-28 October 2005, Nairobi, Kenya
- A Brief Introduction to the Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD)
- IISD RS "Linkages" archive of Desertification meetings
- Linkages Update
- MEA-L - Multilateral Environmental Agreements Listserve
- African Regional Coverage
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