5 September 2016

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Press conferences

All press conferences take place in room 320

 

08:30-09:00

**DON’T MISS**

IUCN Ocean Warming Report

 

IUCN

14:00-14:30

Islands Adapting to a Changing Climate-Hawai'i’s Efforts

Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources

14:30-15:00

Women Leading Solutions on the Frontline of Climate Change

 

Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network

15:15-15:45

Rights of Nature: A new legal framework to live in harmony with nature

 

Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network

 

Congress highlights

 

10:00-10:30

Panel discussion on the future of environmentalism including: Inger Andersen (IUCN Director General), Julia Marton-Lefèvre (former IUCN Director General), Achim Steiner (former IUCN Director General and former Executive Director of UNEP)

320

11:00-13:00

The role of business in developing resilient, green and inclusive agricultural growth corridors in Africa

 

Business and Biodiversity Pavilion

11:00-13:00

Heritage for all: Passing on the World Heritage baton from one generation to the next

 

301B

14:30-16:30

High-Level Session: Connections: Spirituality and Conservation

 

310

 

19:00-21:30

Sharing solutions through the Panorama partnership: Platform launch and celebration (featuring Dr Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity)

 

Protected Planet Pavilion

19:30-21:30

"Kelola Sendang": Celebrating a new paradigm for sustainable landscape management in South Sumatra, Indonesia (featuring H.E. Alex Noerdin, Governor of the Province of South Sumatra, Indonesia)

 

Forests Pavilion

Recommendations

 

08:30-10:30

Strengthening the role of IUCN in saving the world’s primary forests: Implementation of Resolution 060

Forests Pavilion

08:30-10:30

A Deep Dive on Gender and Environment: Exploring the Policy Landscape, Strategies in Action, and Women’s Frontlines Solutions

317B

08:30-10:30

World Heritage Sites for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem based- Disaster Risk Reduction

313B

08:30-10:30

Inter-Generational Climate Justice Moot Court

310

10:30-11:30

Building the Climate Resilience of U.S. Landscapes - Highlights and Lessons Learned from the Resilient Lands and Waters Initiative

United States Pavilion

11:00-12:00

Securing Global Action on Peatlands

Water Pavilion

11:00-12:00

Supporting protected area designation and management through identifying the most important sites for biodiversity: launch of the Key Biodiversity Areas Standard and Programme

Protected Planet Pavilion

11:00-13:00

Natural Capital Approaches: Identifying Common Ground and Fracture Points

313A

13:00-14:30

The Challenges and Successes of Marine Species Conservation

Species Conservation Pavilion

13:00-14:30

Protected area management for the long term sustainable development: BIOPAMA

Protected Planet Pavilion

14:30-16:30

Biodiversity Offsets: What are they and what do the mean to different stakeholders?

313A

14:30-16:30

Indigenous Protocols and Systems for the Use, Management and Conservation of Natural Resources (Spanish)

 

319B

14:30-16:30

The role of nature conservation in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

301B

15:30-16:30

Yes we can!' – A shout out for Species Conservation Action

Species Conservation Pavilion

17:00-17:30

NOAA’s Science on a Sphere: The Impacts of Climate Change - What Do They Mean to You?

United States Pavilion

17:00-19:00

Local Leadership Panel on the Aloha+ Challenge – Sustainability

320

17:00-19:00

Conservation finance: lessons from the field

Business and Biodiversity Pavilion

18:00-19:00

Turning Up the Volume on the Importance of Conservation in a Changing Climate: A Synthesis & Conversation

Protected Planet Pavilion

18:00-19:00

The Hawai`i Climate Adaptation Initiative - Pili Na Mea A Pau

Hawai'i-Pacific Pavilion B

 

IUCN Congress Media Team: congressmedia@iucn.org

 

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