Fighting desertification
Rome, Jly 8-10
ISPRA in cooperation with the Ministry for the Environment, Land
and Sea, organized a congress which will take place on July 8, 9,
10 in "Sala Fazzini", in via Curtatone. The congress' title is
"Regional Meeting of Northern Mediterranean countries and other
countries affected by desertification processes, in preparation for
the ninth session of the Conference of Parties (COP 9) and meetings
of its subsidiary bodies (9 CST and CRIC 8)" of the United Nations
Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The meeting
represents a critical time for the preparatory process of the COP
9: the so-called Regional Preparatory Meetings are designed to
allow the consultation of the countries affected by desertification
and to foster the debate about the documents to be approved and the
decisions to be taken.
Representatives of the countries of Annex IV of UNCCD (Albania,
Bosnia, Croatia, Cyprus, Spain, Greece, Malta, Portugal, San
Marino, Slovenia, Turkey) and of France, United States, Canada,
Israel and European Commission have been invited. Among the
partecipants: the Executive Secretary of UNCCD, H.E. Luc Gnacadja,
the Environment Secretary Roberto Menia, ISPRA's sub-commissioner
Stefano Laporta and the Italian Focal Point of the UNCCD Georgio
Sfara.