IIASA at United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification-COP 14: Restore Land to Sustain Life

Reversing land degradation and its multiple environmental and socioeconomic negative outcomes while accelerating positive achievements for people and for ecosystems with a view to deliver on Sustainable Development Goals is the core agenda of the fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (COP14). The UNCCD’s Conferences of the Parties (COP) is the place where governments agree on strategic and effective land use and sustainable land management goals to ensure nature and ecosystems thrive. COP14 will focus on the critical gaps in land management and planning, but also on practical actions to ensure the successes we are achieving, which are becoming more evident on the biophysical level, increase human well-being everywhere. Within this framework, Dr Simon Parkinson will be presenting the outcomes of the Integrated Solutions for Water, Energy, and Land (ISWEL), a project developed in partnership with UNIDO and GEF. The focus of Dr Parkinson interventions will be placed on discussing how the regional nexus modeling tools developed in ISWEL can help informing decision makers in the development of integrated planning policies in attaining the SDGs.

The two side events are scheduled as follows:

Tuesday 3th September 2019 - 18:00-20:00 

Side Event: "Addressing Water-Energy-Food Nexus by Clean-tech Innovations'' organized by UNIDO

Thursday 12th September 2019 - 15:00-17:00

Sessions in India Pavilion: "Land, water and energy nexus" presentation by Dr. Simon Parkinson - IIASA.

Last edited: 12 September 2019