9.00 a.m. | Welcome coffee
9.30 a.m. | Introduction and welcome speech
- Lutz Ribbe, EESC Member and Director of the Department for Nature Conservation Policy at the environmental foundation EuroNatur
9.45 a.m. | Session 1 – Mainstreaming Biodiversity in EU Policy: Post 2020 Biodiversity framework
Moderator: Jan Mayrhofer, Policy Officer, Sustainable Development, European Youth Forum
Keynote speech:
- Jutta Paulus MEP, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, European Parliament
Presentations by:
- Humberto Delgado Rosa, Director for Natural Capital in DG Environment, European Commission
- Luc Bas, European Regional Director for IUCN
► Mainstreaming Opportunities: IUCN Green List for Natura2000 and Valuing Natural Capital - Erik Gerritsen, Senior Policy Analyst at IEEP
► Mainstreaming challenges: biodiversity financing in the EU, biodiversity in the Green Deal, biodiversity and climate action - Ariane Lotti, Agricultural entrepreneur, Managing Partner of Tenuta San Carlo
► Biodiversity from the business perspective in agricultural sector and the main mechanisms of integration
Q&A – 20 minutes
11.00 a.m. | Coffee break
11.35 a.m. | Session 2 – Mainstreaming in practice: opportunities and challenges
Moderator: Maria Nikolopoulou, EESC member and Member of the Trade Union Confederation of Workers' Commissions and President of the Association for the Development of Time Banks
Presentations by:
- Maxime Seleck, Biodiversity management in quarries – 'Life in Quarries'
► Integration of biodiversity in mining industry: habitat analogues - Silvia Donato, Project Adviser, 'LIFE and CIP Eco-Innovation' Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), European Commission
- Claire Baffert, Senior EU Policy Officer (Water), WWF EPO
► Green and blue connectivity and ecosystem restoration for nature and climate
Q&A – 20 minutes
12.45 p.m. | Closing remarks
- Josep Puxeu Rocamora, EESC Member and Director-general of the Soft Drinks Association (ANFABRA), representative of the Spanish Food and Drink Industry Federation (FIAB)
1.00 p.m. | End of the event
Participants can speak and listen in EN/FR.