GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference: One World - One Health

 28-29 October 2020. GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference: One World - One Health

28/10/2020 Plenary: One World One Health: setting the scene and the mood

This participatory plenary was framed around the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, the Paris climate goals and the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, all of which call on the global community to ‘bend the curve’ on these critical issues. Key global policy makers, scientists as well as business and community leaders informed the audience about plans in place for the new decade, and engaged in critical discussion. They explored how the new policy frameworks can spark a vivid societal dialogue, consolidate next steps and pave the way for direct global action from individuals, civil society, local authorities and the global business community.

Host: UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

Musonda MumbaChief, Terrestrial Ecosystems Unit (TEU), UN EnvironmentSir Robert WatsonHead of the scientific advisory group for the UNEP Global Assessments Synthesis ReportH.E. Fekadu Beyene AlekaCommissioner, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Commission of EthiopiaNiria Alicia GarciaIndigenous leader and innovator, UN Young Champion of the Earth finalistJohan RockströmDirector of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research , Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam

28/10/2020 Harnessing the Power of Nature: Building Resilient Food Systems Through Greater Agrobiodiversity

The session envisaged what the next steps should be for SDG 2.5 in the post-2020 Agenda. Where do we go from here? It will seek to demonstrate why agrobiodiversity is essential to ensure food and nutrition security for current and future global populations. The greater the diversity, the more resilient the system. Protecting crops and livestock from pests and disease, and ensuring they have improved resistance to increasing climatic shocks is essential. But how do we get there?

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  Danielle Nierenberg

  President and Co-Founder
  Food Tank
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  Sir Peter Crane

  Board Chair and President
  Oak Spring Garden Foundation
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  Marie Haga

  Associate Vice President for External Relations and Governance
  IFAD
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  Kent Nnadozie

  Secretary
  ITPGRFA (FAO)
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  Susan Bragdon

  Policy Advisor at Oxfam Novib
  Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Sustainability Programme
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  Mildred Crawford

  Caribbean Network of Rural Women Producers
  Farmers Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Global Assembly of Partners towards Habitat III (GAP)
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  Tina Claffey

  Award winning nature photographer
  
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  Pablo Vargas

  CEO
  Britt

Thought leaders in biodiversity: Building trust in the future 

While the world seems to get further entangled in a web of concurrent crises, there are a growing number of leaders and experts who are sparking new hope and trust in the future. GLF took the effort to find the experts sharing their visions on the state of biodiversity and gathered them in a single digital space to share their inspirational knowledge. 

• Carole Dieschbourg Minister for the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development of Luxembourg 
•  Robert Nasi Director General, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Managing Director, CIFOR-ICRAF 
• Stefan Schmitz Executive Director, Crop Trust 
• Gilbert F. Houngbo President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) 
• Bård Vegar Solhjell Director General, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Norad 
• Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli Managing Partner, Sahel Consulting 
• Jennifer Morgan Executive Director, Greenpeace Galina Angarova Executive Director, Cultural Survival