📅 29 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 CET
🗣️ English, with Russian interpretation
This webinar focuses on the interlinkages between drought risk management and biodiversity conservation. To kick off the webinar, we will have a keynote delivered by Mr. Tristan Tyrrell, Programme Management Officer for Biodiversity, Climate Change and Dry & Subhumid Lands at the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
The keynote presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with two UNCCD National Focal Points from Central and Eastern Europe who will be sharing their country perspectives on the drought-biodiversity connection: Nana Bolashvili, UNCCD Science and Technology Correspondent of Georgia, and Ms. Biljana Kilibarda, Adviseur, Institute of Hydrometeorology and Seismology of Montenegro.
This webinar is co-organized by UNCCD, CBD, and GWP under the umbrella of the UNCCD Community of Learning and Practice on Drought Management in Central and Eastern Europe.