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Advancing sustainable solutions: Dialogue and partnership between business and conservation

Why attend
This session brings together a diverse panel from NGOs, academia and business to explore how we bridge the gaps between business and conservation. In collaboration with the audience we will seek understand how effective partnerships can be implemented and scaled to progress action on critical environmental challenges (e.g. biodiversity and climate)
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Action towards biodiversity, natural resource use and climate, cannot be taken by conservation and academia alone. Business-conservation partnerships have great potential to progress co-ordinated action on global issues, through the sharing of skills and knowledge to build capacity for multi-stakeholder collaborative action. The session will consist of a moderated panel discussion with NGOs, academics and businesses to explore the role of businesses in conservation, the challenges of environmental partnerships and in turn what knowledge and support businesses can offer to conservationists.

Session agenda

Moderator

Melina GERSBERG

Business & Biodiversity project officer,
IUCN French Committee
France


09:00 - 10:30

Speaker

Ms Aoife REYNOLDS

Senior Environmental Performance Lead ,
Royal Dutch Shell
The Netherlands


09:00 - 10:30

Ms Claire WILLIAMS

Senior Programme Manager,
Earthwatch Europe
United Kingdom


09:00 - 10:30

Ms Claire VARRET

Biodiversity Senior advisor,
EDF Group
France


09:00 - 10:30

Fanny BRUNSTEIN

Business and Biodiversity Project Officer,
IUCN French Committee
France

Engaging business partners for biodiversity
09:00 - 10:30

Mr Jeroen VAN DE WAAL

Founder & CEO,
Blue Oasis Technology Lda
Portugal

Engaging Students in Teaching Business & Conservation
09:00 - 10:30

Prof. Judith WALLS

Chair for Sustainability Management, Institute for Economy and the Environment,
University of St.Gallen
Switzerland

Engaging Students in Teaching Business & Conservation
09:00 - 10:30

Facilitator

Alissia LECLERC

Nature-based Solutions and Businesses ,
IUCN French Committee
France


09:00 - 10:30

Leo VOGEL

Research Assistant,
University of St.Gallen
Switzerland


09:00 - 10:30

  • Comité national de l'UICN, France
  • University of Saint Gallen

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