UN Climate Change Conference COP19
The 2013 Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP19, will take place in Warsaw, Poland, between 11 and 22 November 2013.
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During the COP19 climate conference in Warsaw, Poland, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) will be engaging in a number of activities:
On 10 November, CCAFS East Africa program will organise a workshop for African negotiators related to agriculture and food security.
CCAFS Head of Research, Sonja Vermeulen, will participate in an open and online debate on the topic 'Does small-scale climate adaptation pay?'. Get information on how you can participate here.
On 13-14 November, CCAFS Long-Term Adaptation team will take the lead and coordinate a 2-day workshop, entitled "National Adaptation Plans and Agriculture: A Learning Workshop".
15 November is marked for the official COP19 side event "Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans: Experiences and Lessons Learned", which will build on the 2-day NAP workshop and include the release of a report analysing the topic at hand - the National Adaptation Plan process. The side event is scheduled for: 20:15-21:45 p.m. in Room Cracow at the UNFCCC climate conference facilities.
The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) will be held in the midst of the climate negotiations, on 16-17 November. CCAFS is jointly organising the Forum together with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). During the two-day event, CCAFS will be leading several Discussions- and Technical and Networking sessions.
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The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) will be organising and participating in a number of Technical and Networking Sessions and Discussion Forums throughout the Forum. A few of the sessions will be live-streamed [more information to come on this]:
- On Saturday 14:00-16:00 CET, CCAFS will be leading the Technical and Networking Session Managing landscapes for food, fuel, fiber and forests: innovative approaches in a time of food insecurity and climate change together with IFRI University of Michigan and The Forests Dialogue.
- The Technical and Networking session “The good, the bad and the ugly: Climate change's potential impact on farmers in Africa” will be organised by IFPRI at 16:30-18:30 CET and present the CCAFS-supported Climate Change in African Agriculture book series.
- On Sunday 11:00 -12:30 CET, four parallel Sub-Plenaries will be held. CCAFS will be active in the plenary entitled Synergies between Adapting to and Mitigating Climate Change in Forest and Agricultural Landscapes. The Sub-Plenary will be co-organised with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA).
- CCAFS theme on Long-term Adaptation, based at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) will be co-organising a Discussion Forum on the theme of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs): Opportunities for cross-sector synergies in the nexus between water, food security, forests and energy? The Forum will be taking place on Sunday 15:00-17:30 CET.
- On Sunday, another Discussion Forum entitled Rolling up our sleeves on agricultural mitigation for landscape benefits, will be co-organised by CCAFS and Farming First among others. The session will be held 15:00-17:30 CET.