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Official Opening

 
Welcome Remarks: Stéphane Hallaire, Founder & President of Reforest’Action
 
Official Address: Dr. Susan Gardner, Director of UNEP’s Ecosystems Division
 
Keynote Speech: Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace
 
Moderator: Thomas Friang, Founder & CEO of the Open Diplomacy Institute

SESSION #1 - « From New York to Glasgow, keeping forests on top of the agenda until 2030 »

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Agnes Kalibata, President of AGRA, Former UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the 2021 Food Systems Summit and Former Rwanda’s Minister for Agriculture
 
Panel discussion:
Ambassador Nick Bridge, UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change
Dr. Musonda Mumba, Director of the UNDP’s Rome Center for Sustainable Development and former chair of the GPFLR
Virginijus Sinkevicius, European Commissioner for the Environment
Dr. Jonathan Woetzel, Senior Partner, Director of the McKinsey Global Institute
Chris Zink, Managing Director for Natural Climate Solutions Fund at Conservation International
Insight by a Project Leader: Zulkifli Nasution, Funder of Yakopi (Indonesia)
 
Concluding remarks: Dr. Kathy MacKinnon, Emeritus Chair of the World Commission on Protected Areas (IUCN)
 
Moderator: Thomas Friang, Founder & CEO of the Open Diplomacy Institute
 

SPECIAL TALK #1 - « The humanity & Nature Nexus »

 
 
Discussion between: 
Nicolas Blain, Director for Institutional Relations of Reforest’Action
Pr. Laurence Monnoyer-Smith, Chief Sustainability Officer of CNES
Dr. Robert Nasi, Director-general of CIFOR and Managing-Director of CIFOR-ICRAF
Moderator: Thomas Friang, Founder & CEO of the Open Diplomacy Institute

SESSION #2 - « On the road to Stockholm + 50, shifting towards circular economies with forests »

Keynote Speaker: Pr. Naoko Ishii, Professor and Executive Vice-president of Tokyo University, Inaugural Director of the Center for Global Commons, Former Chair and CEO of the GEF, Former Japan’s Deputy Vice-minister for Finance
 
 
Panel discussion:
Ester Asin, Director of WWF’s European Policy Office
Pr. Edward Barbier, University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, Author of Economics for a fragile planet
Michel Driessen, CEO of Verstegen
Elizabeth Gulugulu, Global Focal Point of the UNFCCC Youth Major Group (YOUNGO)
Lynette Thorstensen, Chair of the Board of Fair Trade International
Insight by a Project Leader: Saurav Malhotra, Co-Founder and Designer of the Rural Futures innovation at the Balipara Foundation (India)
 
Concluding remarks: Sir Robert Watson, Professor Emeritus at East Anglia University, former Chair of the IPCC and IPBES
 
Moderator: Thomas Friang, Founder & CEO of the Open Diplomacy Institute

SPECIAL TALK #2 - « The Climate & Forests Nexus »

 
Introduction: Rod Taylor, Global Forests Director of the World Resources Institute
 
Discussion between: 
John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate
Stéphane Hallaire, Founder & President of Reforest’Action
Moderator: Thomas Friang, Founder & CEO of the Open Diplomacy Institute

SESSION #3 - « Rio + 30: sustaining best practices, stopping tree planting and getting to forest growing » 

Keynote Speaker: Adriana Vidal, Chair of the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration and Senior Advisor at IUCN
 
Panel discussion:
Dr. Juliette Biao Koudenoukpo, Director of Secretariat of the UN Forum on Forests and Former Benin’s Minister for the Environment
Kim Carstensen, Director-General of the Forest Stewardship Council
Stéphane Hallaire, Founder & CEO of Reforest’Action
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Founder of AFPAT and SDG Advocate
Pascal Soriot, CEO of AstraZeneca
 
Insight by a Project Leader: Anthony Mills, Chair, C4 Ecosolutions (South Africa)
 
Concluding remarks: Dr. Izabella Teixeira, Co-chair of the UNEP’s International Resources Panel and former Brazil’s Minister for the Environment
 
Moderator: Thomas Friang, Founder & CEO of the Open Diplomacy Institute

Official Closing 

Keynote Speech: José Gregorio Diaz Mirabal, Coordinator of the Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA)
 
Concluding Discussion:
Stéphane Hallaire, Founder & President of Reforest’Action
Dr. Marc Palahi, Director of the European Forest Institute and Chair of the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance
Dr. Tiina Vahanen, Deputy Director of the Forestry Department of the UN Food
and Agriculture Organization
Closing Address: H.R.H. Charles, Prince of Wales
 
Moderator: Thomas Friang, Founder & CEO of the Open Diplomacy Institute

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