The 20th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – COP 20 – and the 2nd edition of the Global Landscape Forum – GLF – will take place in Lima, Peru in December 2014. CIAT will be involved in both with a number of activities described below.
COP20
Terra-i, an eye on Peruvian forests
Forest Pavilion 9 December
Each one of the themes of COP20 – Forest, Mountains and Water, Oceans, Sustainable Cities, Energy – will be shown in five pavilions in a museographic exhibit for the all duration of the event. CIAT’s Louis Reymondin will contribute a talk on CIAT’s Terra-i, a cutting-edge tool that detects land-cover changes resulting from human activities in near real-time, during the event “El ordenamiento territorial frente al cambio climático: tecnologías aplicadas al cambio del uso del suelo” (Land use planning and climate change: technologies applied to land use change) organized by the Peruvian Ministry of Environment at the Forest Pavilion on 9 December.
Climate smart agriculture innovations to raise rural incomes under climate change – COP Side Event
8 December 2014 16:45—18:15
Growing climate risks require transformations to climate smart agriculture innovations by farmers, private sector and public services that can provide widely shared livelihood benefits. Presenters, panelists and participants will share recent and emerging progress.
Global Landscape Forum – 6-7 December 2014
The Global Landscape Forum in Lima, Peru will gather 1500 cross-sector participants to discuss the landscape approach and how it can inform the UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals and the Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The landscape approach recognizes that agriculture, cities, forests, rivers and other ecosystems are all interconnected. It seeks integrative policy to ensure equity across sectors and sustainable management to ensure a future of healthy and abundant natural resources.
CIAT will be a main implementing partner at the event and hold a number of activities.
Landscapes Lab
CIAT’s Terra-i will be featured at the Landscapes Lab at the heart of the venue for the entire duration of the GLF.
GLF participants will be able to access the Lab during coffee breaks and lunch for live demonstrations and feedback sessions.
Technologies and innovations to better understand changes in land use
6 December 15.45 – 17.15
This session, organized by the World Resources Institute, aims to encourage a frank and open discussion about the limitations of remotely sensed and crowd-sourced data and their usefulness. Another important aspect is the question which direction of future data development is needed so that forest monitoring programs are cost-effective and universally accepted. CIAT’s Terra-i, one of Latin America’s premier tree cover monitoring systems, will be partnering with Global Forest Watch to share data and generate new analysis.
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Landscapes under pressure – Reconciling the needs of conservation, food security and economic development
6 December 17.30-19.00
This discussion panel is jointly organized with Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Global Donor Platform for Rural Development and Wageningen University. It will look at the opportunity that landscape approaches offer us to combine different ways of living and producing on the same land, instead of having to decide between one or the other. It will also discuss how cultural identity may trigger transboundary collaboration, good governance and biodiversity conservation. It will hence define the resulting fields of action for policy makers, the donor community and implementers of landscape approaches.
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High-level launch of 20-by-20 initiative: Restoring landscapes across Latin America
7 December 11.30 – 13.00
The high-level launch is jointly organized by the World Resources Institute, CIAT, and Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE).
It will bring together ministers from all land-use sectors, CEOs and Heads of research organizations to announce their support for this ground-breaking 20-by-20 initiative which aims to restore land and avoid deforestation all over Latin America and the Caribbean. The ministers will bring the necessary political commitment, the private sector partners will ensure financial resources are available and the research institutions will provide the analytical foundation.
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Large-scale land restoration – creating the conditions for success
7 December 14.15 – 15.45
This multi-stakeholder discussion forum is jointly organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) and CIAT.
It will demonstrate how we can ensure the success of efforts to restore degraded land and to highlight collective lessons to inspire new ways of thinking with regards to land degradation.
It will be identifying the technical, social and institutional conditions for developing successful long-term initiatives and how they can be sustained at regional and national levels. The findings and discussion will be used to further develop an emerging focus on land degradation of WLE and CIAT – and others that join. They will also feed into a high-level dialogue of African leaders attending the COP.
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