Risk, Disaster, Crisis and Global Change-From Threats to Sustainable Opportunities

1. International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2010 Risk, Disasters, Crisis and Global Change - From Threats to Sustainable Opportunities IDRC Davos 2010 Sponsors:

2. International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2010 Risk, Disasters, Crisis and Global Change - From Threats to Sustainable Opportunities IDRC Davos 2010 Sponsors: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC

3. International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2010 Risk, Disasters, Crisis and Global Change - From Threats to Sustainable Opportunities IDRC Davos 2010 Sponsors: ETH-Board

4. International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2010 Risk, Disasters, Crisis and Global Change - From Threats to Sustainable Opportunities IDRC Davos 2010 Sponsors: Canton of Grisons

5. International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2010 Risk, Disasters, Crisis and Global Change - From Threats to Sustainable Opportunities IDRC Davos 2010 Sponsors: Community of Davos

6. International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2010 Risk, Disasters, Crisis and Global Change - From Threats to Sustainable Opportunities IDRC Davos 2010 Sponsors: global reinsurer with focus on risk transfer, risk retention financing, and asset management. Swiss Re

7. International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2010 Risk, Disasters, Crisis and Global Change - From Threats to Sustainable Opportunities IDRC Davos 2010 Sponsors: Kühne Foundation

8. International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2010 Risk, Disasters, Crisis and Global Change - From Threats to Sustainable Opportunities IDRC Davos 2010 Sponsors: Syngenta Foundation programmes impact people on the ground, in all areas from high-tech seedsto markets Syngenta – foundation for sustainable agriculture

9. International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2010 Risk, Disasters, Crisis and Global Change - From Threats to Sustainable Opportunities IDRC Davos 2010 Sponsors: Our aim: to make sustainability an integral partof the entire value chain and its underlying processes – to create an added value for the company, the environment and society BMW Group

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12. 10:30-12:00 TUE 2.1 IDRC_0106_10.30-12.00_22-23-24 Plenary Session Desertification, Land degradation and Drought Chair: Gnacadja, Luc Executive Secretary United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, UNCCD, Bonn, Germany Moderator: De Kalbermatten, Grégoire Former Deputy Executive Secretary UNCCD, Switzerland Panellists: Burger, Patrice Executive Director CARI, France Jansen, Roland A. CEO Mother Earth Investments AG, Altendorf, Switzerland Razavi, Khadija-Catherine Executive Director of Center for Sustainable Development (CENESTA), Tehran, Iran Reij, Chris Senior Specialist in Sustainable Land Management UV University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Plenary Hall 01st June 2010

13. Wethankthespeakersofthisplenarysessionforsaving6 acresofthreatenedhabitatanditswildlife