WEBINAR: Building Biodiversity - A Youth Dialogue
DATE: Thursday 24th June 2021
TIME: 5:30pm - 6:30pm CEST
This webinar organized jointly by Youth & Environment Europe and the International Resource Panel (IRP) will initiate a dialogue around biodiversity issues between young people and both IRP Co-Chairs, Izabella Teixeira (former Minister of Environment, Brazil) and Janez Potocnik (former European Commissioner for Environment and Science).
This event will also aim to introduce the recent opinion piece on Building Biodiversity drafted by the IRP Co-Chairs. This document features four guiding principles to turn biodiversity loss into biodiversity value through natural resource management. A selection of case studies also illustrates how these principles have been successfully implemented around the world.
Sharing lessons from their past and present roles, and based on powerful scientific evidence from the IRP, the Co-Chairs urge Parties to push for a bold global agreement on biodiversity targets. Countries must use natural resource management approaches to acknowledge, understand and address the direct and indirect drivers of biodiversity loss for climate, nature and socially just economic and social development.
Speakers
Merlyn Van Voore, Head of Secretariat, International Resource Panel (IRP), UN Environment Programme
Izabella Teixeira, Co-Chair of the International Resource Panel, former Minister of Environment, Brazil
Janez Potočnik, Co-chair of the International Resource Panel, Partner at SYSTEMIQ and former European Commissioner for Environment and Science
Jessica Micklem, Coordinator of the Global Youth Biodiversity Network in Europe and Central Asia
Speakers from other Youth networks still TBC
Moderated by Cathal Swan and Karolina Fabianova, Youth and Environment Europe
