“It’s Time for Nature” - GENeva World Environment Day Online Roundtable

To celebrate World Environment Day and as part of the Geneva Environment Network’s online sessions called GENeva Environment Dialogue, a roundtable with the theme “It’s Time for Nature” will be take place on 5 June 2020.

The theme for World Environment Day 2020 is “Biodiversity” with the slogan “Time for Nature” — a call to action to combat the accelerating species loss and degradation of the natural world. One million plant and animal species risk extinction, largely due to human activities.

This event closes the Geneva Environment Dialogues’ series special COVID-19 #ForNature, addressing the theme of this year’s World Environment Day. Reminding key messages from the landmark report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), released in 2019, referred to as the most comprehensive assessment of its kind, the discussion will then focus on how together we can boost the global biodiversity agenda, the key milestones ahead of us, and the opportunities provided in the global recovery plans.

Speakers:

• Bruno Pozzi, UNEP Europe Director
• H.E. Amb. Adriana del Rosario Mendoza Agudelo, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva
• Franz Perrez, Ambassador for the Environment, Switzerland
• Marco Lambertini, Director General, WWF International
• Eva Spehn, IPBES contact point for Switzerland

Registration: Webex Live

Video: Facebook Live

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