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Water pavilion, November 9, 17:00 – 17:45 (GMT)

The FAO Global Soil Partnership’s International Network on Salt-Affected Soils (INSAS) jointly with the FAO Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG), the Government of the Netherlands, Wageningen University and Research and Vrije Univeristeit Amsterdam are holding a session at COP26’s  Water Pavilion with the title of “Salinity and climate smart agriculture: Understand, connect and act now!”

https://www.waterforclimate.net/meetings/virtual/DagBMMajHqxHeCCeM

Генеральный директор ФАО открыл Глобальный симпозиум по засоленным почвам, который продлится с 20 по 22 октября

In order to strengthen the analytical capacity of soil laboratories worldwide, GLOSOLAN is organizing a series of training sessions. The first series focuses on soil spectroscopy to help countries to understand soil conditions, improve agricultural productivity and reverse land degradation. Six webinars on soil spectroscopy, led by leading scientists, are being held throughout this second half of 2021 to provide participants with the basics of the most advanced aspects of this topic. To enable all interested parties to take advantage of this unique learning opportunity, the FAO Global Soil Partnership is making video recordings of all webinars available free of charge on the GLOSOLAN website. 

Soils constitute the biggest carbon pool in terrestrial ecosystems and can have a significant contribution to climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration. However, the estimation and reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, especially from mineral soils, is very limited. Currently, countries face significant challenges in reporting carbon stock changes and associated CO₂ emissions from mineral soils even when using the basic methodological level (tier 1). This is true for a wide range of countries, both developed and developing.