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BRUSSELS | ONLINE | 24 MARCH 20222022 Report
Official Opening
Welcome Remarks: Stéphane Hallaire, Founder & President of Reforest’ActionOfficial 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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