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Roundtable "Restoring Land, Securing Futures: Carbon Farming in Greater Central Asia. The Story of Semipalatinsk"

# 25 августа 2026

# 4pm – 5.15pm

# Russian Pavilion, Ulaanbaatar, UNCCD COP17 (Land & Desertification)

# Online participation

The roundtable will explore the potential of development of land-based models for rehabilitating affected soils through carbon sequestration practices in Kazakhstan and the Asian Drylands Belt countries.

 

  Day 1
16.00 – 16.15

Moderator’s Intro

  • Alexey Ivanov, Director, BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre, Professor of Law, HSE University
16.15 – 17.05

Speakers

  • Michael Obersteiner, Director, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford and Principal Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
  • Elena Rovenskaya, Program Director and Principal Research Scholar, Advancing Systems Analysis Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
  • Rakhim Oshakbayev, Chief Economist, Centre for Applied Research TALAP
  • Murat Temirzhanov, Chairman of the Committee of Land Resources Management, Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan
17.05 – 17.15

Wrap-up:

  • Olga Andreeva, Programme Officer Scientific Affairs, Science, Technology and Innovation Unit, UNCCD

 

 

Session programme.