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Pathways to making peace with nature in the Mediterranean - Panel 1: Addressing challenges.

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This session will discuss biodiversity conservation challenges and opportunities to ensure that nature is in the center of policy making and economies. Conservation, political and economic initiatives that have demonstrated their effectiveness in the Mediterranean will be presented.
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Monitoring biodiversity is the first step towards making peace with nature, but on one condition: cooperation beyond boarders. This session will present the successful ACCOBAMS Survey Initiative. Tour du Valat will introduce the Living Mediterranean Report, that reveals alarming biodiversity trends, but also reasons for hope.Conservation saved many species from extinction. Discussions will also focus on the social economic benefit of nature protection. Marine Protected Areas provide many benefits, but don’t necessarily lead to a win-win scenario. MPA expert Kate Hogg will help to take stock of this issue. The session will present political and economic initiatives contributing to biodiversity conservation. A representative of the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality will share Izmir’s experience in building an environmental friendly city. Hussam Hawwa, CEO of Difaf, a company that incorporates circular economy principles, will speak about "pragmatic environmental solutions".

Session agenda

Speaker

Mr Hussam HAWWA

Founder / CEO,
Difaf SAL
Lebanon

Forging a path to the circular economy
11:00 - 12:30

Kate HOGG

Consultant,
Italy

The social-economic benefits of nature protection
11:00 - 11:30

Dr Simone PANIGADA

Chair of the Scientific Committee,
ACCOBAMS
Italy

Large-scale initiatives to better understand and conserve marine ecosystems
11:00 - 12:30

Dr Thomas GALEWSKI

Researcher / Coordinator of the Mediterranean Wetlands Observatory,
Tour du Valat
France

The Living Mediterranean Report: Monitoring species trends to secure one of the major biodiversity hotspots
11:00 - 12:30

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