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October 2009 – UNCCD: linkages desertification and climate change

UNCCD: linkages between desertification and climate change

Though the best-case scenario sees a post-2012 agreement on climate change emerging from the end-of-the-year meetings in Copenhagen, most of the groundwork for that treaty is being done in this period: around the world in Buenos Aires, Bangkok, Barcelona and behind closed doors in national capitals and among legislators. Count on Climate-Change.tv to keep you posted on how the players in the process see it as it inches forward toward Copenhagen and beyond.

Business, science and NGOs

As the international climate change process bears down in hopes of reaching an agreement by the end of the year in Copenhagen, it becomes increasingly important to get contributions from outside the members of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Private companies, scientific organisations, and environmental groups all play a role.

So do other United Nations organisations. The UN Convention to Combat Desertification is a prime example. The UNCCD just held its Conference of the Parties summit in Buenos Aires, where scores of delegates looked for ways their process should complement the process to confront climate change. Some of the ideas were unexpected.

Luc Gnacadja is the executive secretary of the UNCCD, and he spoke to Climate-Change.tv about an array of issues, including how the process of confronting desertification can contribute — both to limiting greenhouse gas emissions and to aiding in the effort to adapt to changes in the climate. Click on the interview to the right to listen in.

The process needs all the help it can get if an agreement is to emerge from Copenhagen, and Climate-Change.tv will be there to speak to the players involved in the process – whether at the meetings in Bangkok taking place as I write, to Barcelona in November, and the essential Copenhagen talks in December. Stay tuned for many more interviews.

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