Summary
In the morning, UNCCD COP 13 participants reconvened in parallel sessions of the Committee on Science and Technology (CST) and the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC) to discuss agenda items, with the COW meeting in plenary in the afternoon. Negotiations in contact groups continued on draft decisions related to the COP, CRIC and CST agendas. A Youth Forum was held throughout the day.
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UNCCD COP 13 commemorative postal stamps and envelopes
Committee on Science and Technology (CST)
Hamid Čustović, Bosnia and Herzegovina, CST Chair, convenes the CST session
Richard Thomas, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Wafa Essahli, Environmental Information for Sustainable Development for Enhanced Management
Mohammed Alzuhairi, Iraq
Kulov Kubanychbek, Kyrgyzstan
Nina Ingrid Vik, Norway
Jorge Luis García, Mexico
Hernando García Martínez, Colombia
Nana Bolashvili, Georgia
Klaus Kellner, South Africa
Mariam Akhtar-Schuster, Science-Policy Interface (SPI)
Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC)
Aliyu Bananda, Nigeria, CRIC Chair
Chizuru Aoki, Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Sven Walter, Global Mechanism (GM)
Mohsen Abdolhoseini, Iran
Marijana Kapović Solomun, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jason Williams, Antigua and Barbuda
Mohammad Azizul Haque, Bangladesh
Dominga Polanco, Dominican Republic
Puta Tofinga, Kiribati
Sam Contreras, the Philippines
Ana María Rivero Santos, Colombia
Richard Lungu Mfumu, Zambia
L-R: David Oswald, DE Design + Environment, and Simone Quatrini, GM
Committee of the Whole (COW)
Nosipho Ngcaba, COW Chair, convenes the afternoon session of the COW
Nosipho Ngcaba, COW Chair
L-R: Abdourahamane Mariama, Noura Fatchima, Boubacar Zalia Yacouba, Niger
Marcus Davies, Canada
Anna Ballance, EU
Shonisani Munzhedzi, South Africa
Youth Forum
L-R: Zhang Hongwen, China; Monique Barbut, UNCCD Executive Secretary; and Zhang Yongli, Vice Administrator, State Forestry Administration, China
Participants at the Youth Forum
L-R: Liu Fangfei, Anchor, China Central Television; and Marcos Montoiro, UNCCD Secretariat
COP 13 Snapshots
Delegates from Togo with their UNCCD conference bags
Wagaki Wischnewski, UNCCD Secretariat (center) posing with UN Security
Participants register for a field trip organized by the Government of China