This open debate among policy-makers, scientists and civil society will address the relevance of land resource and sustainable soil management for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Chair: Ronald Vargas, United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization and Global Soil Partnership Secretariat

Moderator: Jes Weigelt, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies

Speakers:

▶ Luca Montanarella, European Commission, Joint Research Centre and Chair of the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils

▶ Andrei Sirin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Forest Science

▶ Joanna I. House, Cabot Institute, University of Bristol PANELLISTS

▶ Semisi Fakahau, Minister for Agriculture, Food, Forestry and Fisheries, Tonga

▶ Giacomo Grassi, European Commission, Joint Research Centre

▶ Daniela Carrington, United Nations Development Programme

▶ Lucia Perugini, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change

▶ Alexander Erlewein, United Nation’s Convention to Combat Desertification

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