Name: [VIRTUAL] Supporting implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework – discussion panel (280802)
Start: 2023-09-28T08:00:00-0400
End: 2023-09-28T09:00:00-0400

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ISC and its partners organised the 9th edition of the Science Summit around the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78) on 12-29 September 2023.
The role and contribution of science to attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be the central theme of the Summit. The objective is to develop and launch science collaborations to demonstrate global science mechanisms and activities to support the attainment of the UN SDGs, Agenda 2030 and Local2030. The meeting will also prepare input for the United Nations Summit of the Future, which will take place during UNGA79 beginning on 12 September 2024.

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[VIRTUAL] Supporting implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework – discussion panel (280802)

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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been involved in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) since its drafting and through its development, providing technical and policy advice and supporting the implementation of the Convention and its protocols, in line with IUCN’s goals and mission.

IUCN Commissions play a key role in the adoption and implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) to catalyze decisive action to halt the loss of biodiversity. IUCN's knowledge products provide data for biodiversity assessments, inform the setting of global and national targets and contribute to the development of biodiversity indicators.
This panel will feature a lively discussion on the role, strategies and actions IUCN Commissions are taking to support the implementation of GBF and what are their perspectives on the global vision of a world living in harmony with nature by 2050.

We will have an exceptional pool of experts composed of: Sonia Peña Moreno, Director of the International Policy Centre at IUCN (moderator); Jon Paul Rodriguez, Chair, IUCN Species Survival Commission; Ángela Andrade, Chair, IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management; and Madhu Rao, Chair, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas.

Moderator

Sonia Peña

Director of the International Policy Centre, International Union for Conservation of Nature

For the last eighteen years Sonia has been working at the Headquarters of IUCN – International Union for Conservation of Nature, in Gland, Switzerland. Until early 2021, Sonia was the Coordinator – Global Biodiversity Policy and Governance within the Global Policy Unit (GPU) where... Read More →

Speakers

Jon Paul Rodríguez

Chair, Chair, IUCN Species Survival Commission

Jon Paul Rodriguez is a Professor at the Center for Ecology of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Investigations, and he is a founder, past Board Member and current President of Provita (a Venezuelan conservation NGO) and Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission since 2016... Read More →

Ángela Andrade

Chair, Chair, IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management

Chair of the Ecosystem Management Commission of IUCN since 2016 additionally she chairs the climate change task force in the IUCN Council. She has served as Director of Climate Change and Biodiversity Policy at Conservation International in Colombia, since 2009. Previously, she served... Read More →

Madhu Rao

Chair, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas

Bio: Dr. Madhu Rao is the Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, Senior Advisor of the Wildlife Conservation Society, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore with over 25 years of experience with designing and supporting the implementation... Read More →

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