Minister of Environment, Batilda Salha Burian from Tanzania, talks about the problem of deforestation in her country and how it contributes to climate change and desertification, and she calls for the UNFCCC and UNCCD to work together more. Also see Richard Muyungi, Office of the Vice-President, Tanzania speaking from Bonn in August 2009. And the UNFCCC presentation of the Rio Conventions Calendar at Copenhagen