UNCCD Luc Gnacadja on synergies: desertification-climate change

Luc Gnacadja (December 2009)

Where: Copenhagen: COP15 UN Climate Change Conference 2009

UNCCD Executive Secretary, Luc Gnacadja, talks about the process of confronting desertification since the meetings held in Buenos Aires in October, and he talks about the need for “synergies” between the desertification process and climate change. He also talks about a need for a “bottom-up” approach to addressing climate change. Also see Luc Gnacadja speaking from Buenos Aires in 2009. And Naser Moghaddasi, the deputy head of Forest, Range and Water Management in Iran, speaking from Buenos Aires in 2009.