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          Protect faster. Restore stronger. Manage better.

          BRUSSELS | ONLINE | 24 MARCH 2022

        • 2022 Report

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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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          Reforest'Action is a B Corp certified company whose mission is to preserve and restore the world's forests in response to the twin crisis of climate and biodiversity.

          The Open Diplomacy Institute is a French think-tank working on global governance of sustainability. It aims at accelerating the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.

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