Side Event

OECMs and Green Economies: Productive Landscapes for Nature-positive Society

UNU-IAS will host a session at CBD COP15 on financial and economic factors affecting the identification, management, and effectiveness of OECMs.

Time
- America/Toronto

This session at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP15) will focus on how financial and economic factors may affect the identification, management, and effectiveness of other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) that include human productive areas. Bringing together a variety of stakeholders to present the latest knowledge, the event will further discussion developed through the joint Conservation International and UNU-IAS project on OECMs and socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS).

Participation

This in-person event will be held in the Small Room at the Nature Positive Pavilion and will be open to all participants of CBD COP15. It will be available on livestream.

Speakers

  • Terence Hay-Edie (Programme Advisor for Biodiversity, UNDP-GEF Small Grants)
  • Lorena Jaramillo (Economic Affairs Officer, UNCTAD)
  • Kathy MacKinnon (Chair, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas)
  • Justin Mohan (Secretary, National Biodiversity Authority of India)

Organisers

The event is co-organised by UNU-IAS and Conservation International.

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