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Media
Advisory
Media Advisory
What:
High Level Interactive Ministerial
Dialogue: Towards global action for
#drought resilience Following
the launch
on Monday, 7 November 2022, of the
International Drought Resilience Alliance by
Presidents Macky Sall (Senegal) and Pedro Sanchez
(Spain), speakers at this event will share case
studies of appropriate policy, advocacy, financing
and implementation measures that are integrated,
inclusive and sustainable that span global,
regional, and national levels as well as sectors
and scales. When:
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 18:30-20:00
hrs Where: Sharm
el-Sheikh, Room Osiris and
via Livestream Who:
- H.E.
Ms. Teresa Ribera Rodríguez,
Minister for Ecological Transition, Spain
- H.E.
Mr. Duarte Cordeiro, Minister of
Environment and Climate Action - Environment and
Climate Action, Portugal
- H.E.
Monsieur Alioune NDOYE, Minister of
Environment and Sustainable Development, Senegal
- H.E.
Mr. Alain Richard Donwahi, COP15
President, Côte d'Ivoire
- H.E.
Ms. Maisa Rojas, Minister of
Environment, Chile
- Mr.
Ibrahim Thiaw, Executive Secretary,
United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification
- Ms.
Inger Andersen, Executive Director of
UNEP
- H.E.
Mr. Virginijus Sinkevičius,
European Commissioner for the Environment,
Oceans and Fisheries
- Ms.
Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive
Secretary of CBD
- Mr
Firdovsi Aliyev, Deputy Minister of Ecology and
Natural Resources of Azerbaijan
- Ms.
Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy
Director-General of FAO
- H.E.
Ms. Svenja Schulze, Federal Ministry
for Economic Cooperation and Development,
Germany
- Ms
Bérangère Couillard, Minister of State
for Ecology, France
- Dr
Elena Manaenkova, Deputy Secretary
General of WMO
- Mr.
Marco Lambertini, Director General
World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF)
- Dr.
Bruno Oberle, Director General IUCN -
International Union for Conservation of Nature
- Mr.
Walid Oueslati, Head of Division,
Environment, Transitions & Resilience,
Environment Directorate, OECD
- Ms.
Darci Vetter, Global Head, Policy and
Government Relations, The Nature Conservancy
(TNC)
- Ms.
Loretta Hieber Girardet, Chief, Risk
Knowledge Branch at UNDRR
- Mr.
Pablo Bereciartua, Chair of the Global
Water Partnership
- Mr.
Ayman Salem Ghulam, PhD, CEO of
National Center for Meteorology, Saudi Arabia
- Ms.
Marcela Chacon, Representative of
Private Sector
- Ms.
Patricia Kombo, UNCCD Land Hero and
Founder PaTree Initiative, Kenya
- Ms.
Alicia Montalbo, CAF, Corporación
andina de fomento (CAF)
BackgroundThis
event will consider the role of integrated drought
approaches, particularly, ecosystems, innovation
and coordinating efforts of different actors, in
building resilience to drought. It builds on the
International Drought Resilience Alliance launched
last week as a space to work together to steer the
response to drought disasters from the emergency
response in wide use today, to building long term
drought resilience. Drought
resilience as the way of the future is premised on
the need to minimize drought disasters, which the
science projects will only get worse given the
greenhouse gases emitted thus far and the extreme
events that will follow. But it is also premised
on the fact that, in most cases, drought disasters
can be minimized through advance preparation for
two reasons. First, because they emerge slowly and
can be anticipated and planned for. Second,
because droughts are not determined by the absence
of rain alone. They are also fueled by human
action, such as how land is managed and the crops
grown. For more information,
please contact: Contact UNCCD: Wagaki
Wischnewski, Public Information and Media Officer,
wwisch...@unccd.int | | |
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About the UNCCD
The
United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification (UNCCD) is the global vision and
voice for land. We unite governments,
scientists, policymakers, private sector and
communities around a shared vision and global
action to restore and manage the world’s land
for the sustainability of humanity and the
planet. Much more than an international treaty
signed by 197 parties, UNCCD is a multilateral
commitment to mitigating today’s impacts of land
degradation and advancing tomorrow’s land
stewardship in order to provide food, water,
shelter and economic opportunity to all people
in an equitable and inclusive
manner. | | |
Copyright © 2017*
United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification*, All rights
reserved.
For more information on the
Press Release, contact
Wagaki Wischnewski
Public
Information and Media Officer
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2022
9:03 PM
Subject: High Level Ministerial
Side Event
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