The UN Climate Change Conference in Poznań, Poland 1-12 December 2008 

FAO is participating in the UN Climate Change conference to be held from 1 to 12 December in Poznan, Poland. FAO will support countries and ensure that linkages between climate change and food security issues are taken into account during the negotiations of a post-2012 climate change agreement. 

Side events led by FAO

• Mitigation in agriculture and rural areas (with IFAD collaboration)
  Wednesday, 3 December 2008 13:00 - 15:00 hrs
  Fox room
  Agenda 

• Concluding remarks - IFAD Rahman [148 kb]
  Financial incentives - Presa Swallow [443 kb]
  Mitigation in Agriculture - Arhus Univ Olesen [1 Mb]
  Potential of Agriculture - FAO Holmgren [495 kb]

• Carbon sequestration - CATIE Ibrahim [2 Mb]

• Mitigation in agriculture - UNFCCC [355 kb]

• GTOS: Enhancing country preparedness for post-Kyoto monitoring and assessment (with GTOS partners)
  Wednesday, 3 December 2008 18:00 - 19:30 hrs
  Swan room
  Agenda [359 kb]
  Introduction to GTOS [4 Mb]
  Terrestrial ECVs [2 Mb]
  Video webcast of the side event

• Strategic Framework for forests and climate change (with the Collaborative Partnership on Forests)
  Friday, 5 December 2008 13:00 - 15:00 hrs
  White-tailed eagle room
  Agenda  [995 kb]
  Summary  [800 kb]
  Video webcast of the side event

Side events co-sponsored by FAO

• UN system response to support REDD (led  by the UN-REDD Programme (FAO/UNDP/UNEP), in cooperation with World Bank and UNFCCC)
  Thursday, 4 December 2008 13:00 - 15:00 hrs
  Aesculapian snake room
  Agenda (PDF)

  Presentation by UN-REDD Programme (PDF)
  Presentation by FCPF (PDF)
  Video webcast of the side event

• Adaptation experiences across sectors and scales (led by UNDP, in cooperation with FAO, IFAD and many others)
  Thursday, 4 December 2008 19:30 - 21:00 hrs
  Aesculapian snake room
   Video webcast of the side event
• UN Youth: growing together in a changing climate (led by UNFCCC in cooperation with FAO and others)
  Friday, 5 December 2008 13:00 - 15:00 hrs
  EXTRA II room
• Moving ahead: practical risk-related adaptation
  UN/ISDR
  Friday, 5 December 2008 13:00-15:00 hrs
  Fox Room 
• Climate change and the risk of hunger: is the global food crisis a wake-up call for adaptation?  (led by WFP in cooperation with FAO and IFAD)
  Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:00 - 15:00 hrs
  Aesculapian snake room

• Bioenergy towards a low carbon future: meeting the challenges of sustainable development and climate change (led by Italy with the Global Bioenergy Partnership - GBEP Secretariat in FAO)
  Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:30 - 21:00 hrs
  Fox room

Forest Day 2

Parallel to the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, CIFOR will lead the Forest Day 2 along with the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, including FAO.

During this day FAO will organize the event on: 

• Adapting forest policies and institutions to meet climate change challenges: country experiences
  16:30 - 18:00 hrs

FAO will also co-sponsor a series of events of a crosscutting nature:

• "The Second D"- Sustainable Forest Management Addressing Forest Degradation" 
  Led by ITTO, IUCN (GPFLR), FAO, CBD
  11:00 - 13:00 hrs
• Getting Ready for REDD: Capacity Building for REDD Strategy Planning and Monitoring in Three Countries
  Led by World Bank, UN-REDD Programme FAO/UNDP/UNEP
  11:00 - 13:00 hrs 
• Carbon storage in Harvested Wood Products: Why bother?
  Led by United Nations Economic Commission for Europe UNECE
  15:00 - 16:30 hrs

Download the schedule of the side events here.