Redd + cancun agreements: what are the perspectives and hurdles
for the land? Mr. Klemens Riha, Environment and Sustainable Use
of Natural Resources, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation
and Development (BMZ), said adopting a holistic approach to
issues that were in the past treated in a segmented manner was
very important. This approach may help to establish important
and effective links to issues at stake, especially in the
implementation of the issues of land management and the
agreements reached at Cancun. The emphasis, he added, must lie
on enhanced mitigation and adaptation, two things that are
increasingly viewed from the same perspective. Mr. Riha cited
examples of issues in agriculture and water that had not been
specifically added to the agenda of climate change negotiations.
“An artificial segmentation of issues at stake that are
essentially integrated cannot solve this problem,” he said. Dr.
Dennis Garrity, Director General, World Agroforestry Centre
(ICRAF), focused on how to create an everg