Online Event: Mainstreaming biodiversity and sustainable use of natural resources across the agricultural sector - linkages with the European Green Deal and the COVID-19 response

FAO Brussels Dialogue

The world is facing unprecedented challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the immediate global priority is to tackle this public health emergency, our long-term response must address the disruption of nature’s balance, loss of biodiversity and degradation of natural resources and ecosystems.



Our distinguished panelists will discuss global efforts to transform agriculture and food systems in view of protecting biodiversity, addressing climate change and using natural resources more sustainably.



Register here to learn more about how biodiversity actions can be further mainstreamed in international policy, the key elements of UN-EU global collaboration on biodiversity and the role of other partners and sectors.

Speakers





High-level interventions



Maria-Helena Semedo

Deputy Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)



Joyce Msuya

Deputy Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP)



Daniel Calleja Crespo

Director-General, EU Commission Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV)



Norbert Lins

Chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and Member of European the Parliamentary Alliance against Hunger and Malnutrition, European Parliament





Panel discussion with questions from the audience



Mette Wilkie

Director, Forestry Policy and Resources Division, FAO



Maxwell Gomera

Head, Biodiversity and Land Branch, UNEP



Eduardo Mansur

Director, Land and Water Division, FAO



Manuel Barange

Director, Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy and Resources Division, FAO





Welcoming remarks



Rodrigo de Lapuerta

Director, Liaison Office with the European Union and the Kingdom of Belgium, FAO