Monday Dec 7 -  UNFCCC COP 15 Opens

• Seminar:  “Countdown to Copenhagen: Scientific Essentials of a COP-15 Deal”

Venue: University of Copenhagen, Frue Plads, Ceremonial Hall 1166
Time: 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Organizers: University of Copenhagen, with input from the CGIAR Challenge Program on Challenge Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
Website: http://www.energymap.dk/Profiles/Copenhagen-University/Events/Climate-Change-Seminar--Countdown-to-Copenhagen--S
Description: Leading climate scientists provide insights and thoughts on climate change and what is at stake at COP15.

Wednesday Dec 9

• Launch of “National REDD Architecture and Policies” (including press briefing)      

Venue: Asger Jorn Room, Bella Center, Copenhagen
Time: 9:30 -10:00 am
Organizers: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Thursday Dec 10

• Climate Change and Food Security: Unifying Commitment and Action in Land-Based Sectors

Venue: Victor Borg Room, Bella Center, Copenhagen
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Organizers: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and partners
Please refer to listing at http://regserver.unfccc.int/seors/reports/events_list.html?session_id=COP15
Description:  Climate change, food security, poverty - key challenges that intersect in land-based sectors - cannot be addressed in isolation from each other. The World Summit on Food Security and UNFCCC COP-15 provide opportunities to promote solutions that manage synergies and trade-offs for multiple benefits. 

Friday Dec 11

• CGIAR/CCAFS Media Briefing Session

Venue: Press Conference Room, Bella Center, Copenhagen
Time: 9:30 -10:30 am
Description: The press briefing will be on a new report "Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security: A strategy for Change". This report is about CGIAR research related to climate change. Click here for the report.

• Synergies Between Agricultural Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change: East African Experience

Venue: Liva Weel Room, Bella Center, Copenhagen
Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Organizers: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Please refer to listing at http://regserver.unfccc.int/seors/reports/events_list.html?session_id=COP15
Description:  Adaptive capacity for African farmers is low due to dependence on rainfed agriculture and poverty. Policymakers and researchers from Ethiopia and Kenya discuss adaptation strategies sought and the potential for incorporating mitigation in agriculture into climate negotiations.

• REDD in the Real World: Lessons from Global Research

Venue: Halfdan Rasmussen Room, Bella Center, Copenhagen
Time: 6:15 -7:45 pm
Organizers: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD)
Please refer to listing at http://regserver.unfccc.int/seors/reports/events_list.html?session_id=COP15
Description: As REDD moves from negotiation to implementation, CIFOR and Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD) present science-based technical guidance and recommendations for carbon measuring and monitoring, financing, rights and tenure and other key issues for making REDD efficient, effective and equitable.

Saturday Dec 12

• Agriculture & Rural Development Day 2009 (ARDD 2009)

Venue: Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE), University of Copenhagen
Time: 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Organizers: CGIAR, CCAFS, Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE), University of Copenhagen and others, for full listing, see website below.
Website: http://www.agricultureday.org/index.html
Description: With a focus on “The road after Copenhagen: priority strategies and actions for ensuring food security and rural development in the face of climate change”, the event brings together policy makers and negotiators, rural development practitioners, producers, civil society and the agricultural and climate change scientific community to highlight the importance of agriculture in climate change and to identify the ‘no-regret’ priorities for agriculture and food security where the world needs to take action.
Note: A CGIAR exhibit was featured at this event

Click here for the IISD report and other information

Photos from ARDD event

• Livestock Sector Evolution: Trade-offs with Food, Feed and Biofuels and Solutions to Deforestation

Venue: Liva Weel Room, Bella Center, Copenhagen
Time: 6:15-7:45 pm
Organizers: International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Please refer to listing at http://regserver.unfccc.int/seors/reports/events_list.html?session_id=COP15
Description: Livestock provide many services but consume biomass while producing greenhouse gasses (GHGs). We highlight integrated assessment of land-use policies to secure mitigation targets for a livestock sector in transition; assess cattle emissions; and show improved livestock management can abate deforestation in Brazil.

Sunday Dec 13

• Forest Day 3

Venue: Radisson BLU Falconer Hotel & Conference Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Time: 7:30 am – 7:00 pm
Organizers: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) and the Government of Denmark
Website: http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/Events/ForestDay3/Introduction/
Description: Forest Day 3 will build on the success of Forest Day 1 and 2 in helping to ensure forests are high on the agenda for future climate outcomes, and will pave the way forward in making these outcomes work beyond Copenhagen.
Note: An exhibit by CGIAR and CCAFS was featured at this event.

Photos from Forest Day

Monday Dec 14

• Oceans Day

Venue: European Environment Agency, Copenhagen
Time: 8:00 am - 10:00 pm
Organizers: See complete list at http://www.globaloceans.org/Oceans_day/organizers.html for organizers and collaborators, including WorldFish Center
Website: http://www.globaloceans.org/Oceans_day/index.html
Description: Oceans Day provides an opportunity for Parties and Observer States, intergovernmental organizations, non-government organizations, and members of civil society to address the implications of the emerging Copenhagen agreement for oceans, coasts, and coastal communities around the globe. Oceans Day highlights the direct link between climate change, the health of the oceans, and human well-being, as well as the need for sufficient funding to support bold mitigation and adaptation actions that will minimize climate change impacts on coastal communities and ocean resources.

• Forest Day 3 Media Briefing

Venue: Asger Jorn Room, Bella Center, Copenhagen
Time: 10 -10:30 am

• Beyond Copenhagen: Agriculture and Forestry are Part of the Solution

Venue: Niels Bohr Room, Bella Center, Copenhagen
Time: 2:45 - 4:15 pm
Organizers: International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP), CIFOR and ARDD sponsors.
Please refer to listing at http://regserver.unfccc.int/seors/reports/events_list.html?session_id=COP15
Description: A consortium of the major international organisations and donors will present strategies and actions towards an agricultural adaptation and mitigation workplan, based on stakeholders' recommendations and previous meetings.

• Joint Statement - December 15, 2009
• IISD Report on International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) Event

Thursday Dec 17

• Strategies for a Staged Full Inclusion of Terrestrial Carbon

  Venue:Halfdan Rasmussen Room, Bella Center, Copenhagen
  Time: 2:45 - 4:15 pm
  Organizers: World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and the Terrestrial Carbon Group of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
  Please refer to listing at http://regserver.unfccc.int/seors/reports/events_list.html?session_id=COP15
  Description: The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and the Terrestrial Carbon Group of the H. John
  Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment present progress and strategies for resolving scientific, institutional and economic challenges to a staged full inclusion of terrestrial carbon in accounting for greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation, starting with forest emissions and sequestration.