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WUR at COP24 climate conference

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December 3, 2018

From 3 to 14 December, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is hosting the 24th Conference of Parties (COP) in Katowice, Poland. The 190 countries that are participating in this conference will be attempting to flesh out the Paris Agreement, with a particular focus on the implementation guidelines laid out in the Paris Rulebook. Researchers from Wageningen University & Research are present to provide the delegations with valuable information and to keep abreast of the negotiations.

Programme on where you can meet WUR-reseachers:

Time	Place	Subject	Contact
Tuesday 4 December 14:00-15:00h	German Pavilion	UNEP gap report	UNEP - Niklas Höhne
Tuesday 4 December 15:00-16:30h	Room Wisla	Making climate action more transparent and ambitious	New Climate Institute - Niklas Höhne
Wednesday 5 December 15:00-16:30h	Room Warmia	A new understanding of Paris-compatible climate action: Translating 1.5°C into technological, social, and political examples of transitional change around the world.	New Climate Institute - Niklas Höhne
Wednesday 5 December 15:00-16:30h	Side event: Bieszczady	Transparent Forests – how the Global Forest Observations Initiative supports the REDD+ process.	European Space Agency, GFOI - Martin Herold
Thursday 6 December 18:30-20:00h	Room Warmia	What has REDD+ achieved? Evaluating the impacts of REDD+ interventions on forests and people.	CIFOR, Green Climate Fund and Wageningen University & Research - Martin Herold
Friday 7 December 12:00-13:30h	German Pavilion	Driving NDC Implementation.	BMU - Niklas Höhne
Friday 7 December 14:30-16:00h	EC Pavillion, Room Brussels	The key role of forests in mitigating climate change: from the Paris Agreement to EU legislation.	Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania; Wageningen University; REDD+ Business Initiative - Martin Herold
Saturday 8 December	EU Pavilion	Building partnerships and tracking progress – Role of non-state and subnational climate actors.	DIE - Martin Herold
Monday 10 December 10:30-11:00h	Press conference room	Climate Change Performance index (CCPI). Release of the 2019 version of the Climate Change Performance Index.	German Watch, New Climate Institute - Martin Herold
Tuesday 11 December 11:30-12:00h	Press conference room	Climate Action Tracker temperature update. Release of the up to date assessment of NDCs, their implementation and impact on global temperature.	Clima ActionTracker, New Climate Institute - Martin Herold
Thursday 13 December 18:00-20:00h	EC Pavilion, Area E	Climate action, land and the Nexus.	Wageningen Economic Research, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education; European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) - Floor Brouwer
Friday 14 December 11:30-13:00h	Room Pieniny	The Paris Agreement and the Nexus of water, energy and food: Policy coherence and serious games.	Sim4Nexus - Floor Brouwer