06/12/2017 at 08:30 - 10:00 Location: Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Bâtiment Mansfeld 9, rue du Palais de Justice L-1841 Luxembourg Organiser: LuxFLAG Event type: Conference
6th December
LuxFLAG’s next breakfast seminar will take place under the topic “Sustainable land use: From the UN think tank into practice”, hosted by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs on 6 December 2017. The speaker will be Florian Eisele, Outreach and Communications Coordinator at the UN Environment and UN-REDD Programme.
Marc Bichler, Ambassador-at-large for Climate Change and Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, will present an update on recent COP23 developments. Florian Eisele will talk about the value of forests and how the financial sector can play a key role in decoupling deforestation from agricultural production. He will present finance-driven solutions for sustainable land use and landscape restoration, like the UN Environment’s Seed Capital Assistance Facility, Tropical Landscape Finance Facility and the Rabobank partnership on climate smart agriculture.
