Workshop on mitigation: agriculture, forestry and rural development | ||||
10 a.m. – 1 p.m. | ||||
Opening and welcome: Mr. Kishan Kumarsingh, Chair of the SBSTA |
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Session I: Presentations by Party representatives, Questions and answers |
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Brian C. Murray (United States of America): Economics of Climate Change Mitigation in Forestry, Agriculture, and Land Use Change: a National Assessment for the USA |
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James Shevlin (Australia): Successful approaches to working with the agriculture sector to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and minimise the loss of valuable resources |
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A. Verhagen (The Netherlands): Costs, benefits and co-benefits of mitigation activities in agriculture and forestry |
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Yang Xiongnian (China): Technology needs for promoting rural development and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in China |
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Kenji Iiyama (Japan): Development of greenhouse-gas sink/source control technologies through conservation and efficient management of terrestrial ecosystems |
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Questions and answers session I |
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Session II: Presentations by Party representatives, Questions and answers |
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Elisabeth Lipiatou (European Commission): Economics of the mitigation potentials in the European agriculture, forestry and land use sector |
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Marku Kanninen (for the European Community): The contribution of forestry and forests to the objective of the UNFCCC and to sustainable development |
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Sandra Brown (United States of America): Methods and techniques for monitoring reductions in GHG emissions from avoiding deforestation |
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Masahiro Amano (Japan): Promotion of sustainable forest management and the role of biological sequestration under climate change agreements |
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Questions and answers session II | ||||