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IUCN Global Standard for
Nature-based Solutions
Launch events on 23 July 2020
Hosted by television journalist Asha Sumputh
The IUCN Global Standard
on Nature-based
Solutions (NbS) will help
governments, NGOs, and
businesses to design,
invest in, and scale-up
sustainable solutions to
societal challenges.
It is the first-ever tool
to help design robust,
durable actions that derive
benefits for people AND
nature in a way that such
benefits can be verified,
monitored for outcomes,
and adapted to manage
risks and changes.
INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE
More information
For further information or content, please see here
or contact the IUCN NbS Group at
daisy.hessenberger@iucn.org
Agenda for the IUCN Launch of the
Global
IUCN Standard
Launch of thefor Nature-based
Global Solutions
Standard for Nature-based
Solutions
10:00-11:00 (CET)
From 10:00–11.00 (CET)
10:00 – 10:02 Moderation, welcome by CNBC journalist Ms Asha Sumputh
Mrs Ana Tiraa
Welcoming statement, importance and
IUCN Vice President
10:02 – 10:07 potential of NbS including in post-
COVID situation
Mr Wallace Cosgrow
Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change of Relevance to NbS in Africa and for
the Republic of the Seychelles island states
The Rt Hon Lord Zac Goldsmith, Minister of State in
the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Department NbS for climate change, COP26
for International Development and the Department for
10:07 – 10:32 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom
5 min each
The Hon Barbara Pompili Green New Deal and France’s role in
Minister of Ecological Transition, France (TBC) development of the standard
The Hon Malik Amin Pakistan
State Minister, Advisor to Prime Minister on Climate Climate Change and Pakistan’s Green
Change, Ministry of Climate Change recovery
Mr Stewart Maginnis Summary presentation of concept and
Global Director IUCN NbS Group standard
NbS as an inclusive approach - value
Dr. Dalee Sambo Dorough
of traditional knowledge, rights-based
International Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council
approaches through NbS
10:32 – 10:53
Moderated Mr Sunny Verghese
discussion WBCSD Chair, and Co-Founder and Group CEO of
NbS – a collaborative opportunity for
Olam International Ltd
the private sector towards sustainability
The Hon Mami Mizutori, Assistant Secretary-General Partnership with UN agencies in
and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for implementing NbS together, beyond
Disaster Risk Reduction in the United Nations Office for conservation and development – a DRR
Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) perspective
Mr Bertrand Walckenaer
Closing remarks - Potential for standard
Associate Chief Executive Officer, Agence Française de
10:53-10:58 and role of funding tools. Representing
Développement (AfD)
donor community
10:58 - 11:00 Moderator Thank you and closing
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Agenda for the Panel Discussion on the
Global
Agenda Standard
for the IUCN Panel for Nature-based
Discussion on the GlobalSolutions
Standard for
Nature-based
16:00-17:00 Solutions
(CET)
16:00– 17:00 (CET)
16:00 – 16:02 Moderation, welcome by CNBC journalist Ms Asha Sumputh
Dr Grethel Aguilar
Welcoming statement, importance and potential of NbS
16:02 – 16:05 IUCN Acting Director General
including in post-COVID situation
Mr Stewart Maginnis
16:05 – 16:10 Global Director IUCN NbS Group Summary presentation of concept and standard
The Hon Teresa Ribera
Fourth Vice-President and Minister
Potential for nature to address climate crisis and the imper-
for the Ecological Transition and
ative continuity between COPs
Demographic Challenge, Spain
The Hon Pamela Castillo
Costa Rica Vice-Minister of Natural
Costa Rica’s Green Recovery Plan
Resources
Mr Ramiro Batzin
Coordinator of CICA/Sotz’il Natural
Resources Management Program Respect for and need for rights and inclusivity to be upheld.
with Indigenous Peoples of Central Traditional knowledge and NbS.
America
16:10 – 16:45
Moderated panel Ms Mito Tsukamoto
discussion Chief of Development and Invest-
ment Department, International NbS role in development, green jobs and green works
Labor Organization (ILO)
The Hon Manuel Pulgar-Vidal
Former Minister of Environment for
Peru, and Global Director Climate Role of biodiversity in the climate crisis
and Energy, WWF
Dr Angela Andrade
Chair of IUCN Commission on
Ecosystem Management (CEM),
and Director of Environmental Policy Governance of standard and participatory approach
for Conservation International-Co-
lombia
The Hon Christiana Figueres
Former Executive Secretary of the
UN Framework Convention on Cli-
16:45 – 16:55 Recap of two events and vision setting speech
mate Change (UNFCCC) and global
authority on climate change
16:55 – 17:00
Moderator Thank you and closing
Continue the NbS discussion at the
IUCN World Conservation Congress
See here for how to participate the NbS Pavilion. 3
Ana Tiraa
Ana Tiraa is a committed conservationist with more than
20 years working for the benefit of the Pacific Islands
environment. Ana has undertaken environmental related
work for Government, National and International NGOs,
communities, private sector, intergovernmental regional
organisations and the UN. Work experience includes project
design, implementation, negotiation, monitoring, review
and evaluation. Individual work assignments have been in
the Cook Islands, Samoa, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu,
New Caledonia, Tuvalu and Tokelau. She has been a major
contributor to bringing back a critically endangered endemic
Rarotongan bird from the brink of extinction. As Biodiversity
Officer for the Secretariat for the Pacific Regional
Environment Program (SPREP), she has contributed to the biodiversity conservation efforts of more than
20 Pacific Island countries and territories. She has also served 3 years as an incumbent IUCN councillor for
Oceania, where she has gained a experience which can be consolidated and used effectively in the next inter-
sessional period between World Conservation Congresses. This experience has given her a sound knowledge
of processes within Council, which she can use to the benefit of the Oceania region, as well as globally.
Ana’s educational qualifications include a BSc Environmental Studies from the University of the South Pacific,
Fiji (1994), and an MSc in Natural Resources Management from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand,
(2011), for which she was awarded a UNEP scholarship. Her research project was on the topic of biodiversity
and climate change in the Cook Islands. Ana is presently a member of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem
Management (CEM) and the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). She is an Executive committee
member of the IUCN Trans boundary Specialist Group (Oceania Representative). She is also an Executive
founding member of Te Ipukarea Society (a Cook Islands Environmental NGO formed in 1996, also an IUCN
Member) and was a Global Councillor for BirdLife International Council from 2004 – 2006. She is a current
Councillor of IUCN and would like to consolidate her work on Council by serving a second term.
Wallace Cosgrow
Minister for Environment Energy and Climate Change
Minister Cosgrow was appointed Minister for Environment
Energy and Climate Change on the 27th of April 2018.
Since 2015 when he was first appointed Minister, he has
served as Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, Minister for
Employment Entrepreneurship Development and Business
Innovation, and Minister for Industry Entrepreneurship
Development and Business Innovation.
He has also held the post of Chief Executive Officer of the
Agency for Social Protection, Director General for Public
Affairs in the Cabinet Office and Director for Industrial
Relations in the Employment Department.
He holds a Bachelor degree in Economics from the
University of East London in the United Kingdom.
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The Rt Hon Lord Zac Goldsmith
Minister for the Environment for the United
Kingdom
The Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
was appointed as Minister of State in the Foreign
and Commonwealth Office, the Department for
International Development and the Department
for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 13
February 2020. The Minister’s responsibilities
include climate change, environment and
conservation, biodiversity, oceans and the Blue
Belt.
He was previously a Minister at the Department
for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs July
2019 to September to February 2020.
Malik Amin Aslam
Malik Amin Aslam is currently the Federal Minister for Climate
Change/Prime Minister’s Advisor on Climate Change as well
as serving as the elected Global Vice President of IUCN. He
has previously chaired the flagship “Green Growth initiative”
for the province of KPK in Pakistan – which included the mass
afforestation “Billion Tree Tsunami” project.
From 2002-07 he served as a Member of Parliament and from
2004-07 as the Minister of State for Environment (Government
of Pakistan) and in this capacity has been the architect of the
country’s National Policies on environment and climate change.
During this period Malik Amin Aslam worked as the Prime
Minister’s special envoy for reform of the UN governance system.
Malik Amin Aslam has also had the privilege of chairing the G77+China negotiations group and leading
Pakistan’s climate change negotiations at various COP meetings since 1999. He has recently been chosen to
serve on the high level “International Advisory Council” for the Eco-Forum Global – a leading environmental
think-tank of China. In recognition of his contributions towards nature conservation, he was conferred with the
prestigious “Tamgha-e-Imtiaz” (National civilian award) by the Government of Pakistan in 2018.
Malik is an electrical engineer with an MBA from McGill University and an MSc from Oxford University where
he completed his thesis on the utility of the “emissions trading” concept within the context of managing the
climate change issue.
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Stewart Maginnis
Stewart Maginnis has worked in sustainable
development and biodiversity conservation for 35 years,
15 of which were based Tanzania, Sudan, Ghana and
Costa Rica. He led the development and promotion of
“forest landscape restoration” (FLR) – one of the first
“purpose-built” nature-based solutions to which 63
countries have committed 172 million hectares under
the Bonn Challenge. He and his team at IUCN have
worked over the last 12 years on defining and promoting
the concept of nature-based solutions and supporting
its application to climate change, food and water
security, and disaster risk reduction. They and have
just finalized a two-year process to develop a Global
Standard for Nature-based Solutions.
Stewart was educated at Oxford University and Queen’s
University Belfast, and is the IUCN Global Director for
Nature-based Solutions.
Sunny Verghese
Sunny George Verghese is the Co-founder & Group
CEO and Executive Director of Olam International
Limited and CEO of its subsidiary Olam Global
Agri. Sunny has been Group CEO for over 30 years
and is responsible for strategic planning, business
development and overall management of the Olam
group of companies worldwide.
Headquarted in Singapore, Olam is a global leading
food and agri-business and ranks among the top 30
largest primarily listed companies on the SGX-ST in
terms of market capitalisation. Today, Olam’s operations
spans over 60 countries and it is integrated across the
value chain with farming, processing and distribution
operations, and also sources from a network of
approximately 5.0 million farmers.
Sunny is passionate about Re-imagining Global Agriculture and Food Systems and in 2018, was appointed
Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). He is also an ambassador for
the Food & Land Use Coalition and a Champion for the global food loss and waste initiative, Champions 12.3,
Chairman of the Board of the Human Capital Leadership Institute (HCLI), Chairmain of JOil (S) Pte Ltd and
serves on the Board of Trustees of Singapore Management University.
Sunny holds a post graduate management degree from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA)
and has also completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from the Harvard Business School
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Dalee Sambo Dorough
Dalee Sambo Dorough (Inuit-Alaska) is International Chair of
the Inuit Circumpolar Council and former Associate Professor
at University of Alaska Anchorage. Engaged for over 35
years at the UN, ILO, OAS and other international fora, she
is a former Expert Member and Chairperson of the UNPFII
and specializes in international Indigenous human rights
law as well as political and legal relations between States
and Indigenous peoples. She holds a PhD from University
of British Columbia, Faculty of Law (2002) and a Master of
Arts in Law & Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts
University (1991). Current areas of research include Arctic
Indigenous peoples’ human rights, Arctic policy and Arctic
related issues. She is also co-Chair of the International Law
Association Committee on Implementation of the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples.
"Recognizing the profound relationship that we Inuit and
other Indigenous Peoples have with the
natural world and our perspective about being a part of our
ecosystems, it is clear that we have much to
contribute to understanding Nature Based Solutions. Our
collective human rights and our responsibilities to future
generations as well as our knowledge can provide significant
insights."
Ms. Mami Mizutori
Mami Mizutori is the Special Representative of the United
Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk
Reduction, and head of the United Nations Office for Disaster
Risk Reduction, based in Geneva, Switzerland. She assumed
her role on 1 March 2018. Ms. Mizutori served for twenty-
seven years in various capacities in the Japanese Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
Prior to joining the UN, Ms. Mizutori was Executive Director
of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and
Cultures, University of East Anglia, UK, since 2011.
Ms. Mizutori graduated in law from Hitotsubashi University,
Tokyo, and obtained a Diploma in International Studies from
the Diplomatic School of Spain. A Japanese national, Ms.
Mizutori speaks Japanese, English and Spanish.
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Bertrand Walckenaer
Bertrand Walckenaer has been the Deputy CEO of the Agence
française de développement (French Development Agency)
since February 2019. Previously he was chief of staff of the
State Secretary to the Minister for Economy and Finance. He
worked ten years for the French Treasury (between 2005 and
2017) where he occupied several positions with responsibilities
in the field of corporate restructuring, export finance in the
aeronautics sector, and foreign investment control. In 2016
and 2017 he was also a board member of Bpifrance, La
Poste and CNP Assurances. During this period he moved for
two years to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, where he was
deputy chief of staff of the State Secretary for foreign trade to
the Minister for Foreign Affairs. And finally, in 2010, Bertrand
Walckenaer was the technical director of the hospital of
Pouma in Cameroun. He holds a degree in agronomy from
AgroParisTech and a degree in international business from
Paris-Dauphine University.
Grethel Aguilar
Dr Grethel Aguilar has held senior roles in the International
Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as Acting Director
General as well as Regional Director for Mexico, Central
America, and the Caribbean. Dr Aguilar brings with her more
than 25 years of experience in conservation and sustainable
development, having worked extensively on developing and
applying environmental law and policy in collaboration with
governments and civil society. In particular, she is deeply
passionate about the rights of indigenous peoples and local
communities
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Teresa Ribera
Teresa Ribera is the Fourth Vice President of the Spanish
Government and Minister for the Ecological Transition and
Demographic Challenge, having already been Minister for the
Ecological Transition since June 2018. Under her mandate,
Spain organised COP25 in Madrid and has recently presented
an ambitious Climate Law to cut the country's carbon
emissions to net zero by 2050.
Prior to that, Ms Ribera was Director of the Institute for
Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI)
from 2014 to 2018, and enabled the Institute to play a key
role in the negotiation of the Paris Climate Agreement and the
transition towards sustainable development.
She served as the Spanish Secretary of State for Climate
Change and Biodiversity from 2008 to 2011, responsible for
environmental and climate policies, as well as the National
Meteorological Agency. A public official from the Senior Corps
of State Civil Administrators, she has also taught as professor in
public law at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
Pamela Castillo
Pamela Castillo Barahona, Viceminister of Natural Resources
of the Ministry of Environment and Energy of the Government
of Costa Rica. Master in Environmental Security and Peace.
She has 18 years of experience in biodiversity management,
conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
Currently, she holds the Presidency of the:
1. National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC)
2. National Fund for Forest Development (FONAFIFO)
3. National Council of Biodiversity Management
of Costa Rica (CONAGEBIO), and
4. Environmental Bank Foundation (FUNBAM).
Also she is leading the development of National Policy of
Nature Based Solutions in Costa Rica.
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Ramiro Batzin
Ramiro is a Maya Kaqchikel and IUCN Councillor representing
the Indigenous Peoples Organisations. He is also Co-Chair of
the International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Biodiversity,
Regional Coordinator of the Integrated Management of Natural
Resources with Indigenous Peoples of Central America CICA/
Sotz’il.
Ramiro holds a Master’s degree in Local Environmental
Management as well as a degree in Communication Sciences,
Journalist Professional, and has more than 20 years of experience
on indigenous systems of use, management and conservation of
natural resources.
“It’s time for all human beings to learn how to live in harmony and
balance with Mother Nature and the universe.”
Mito Tsukamoto
Mito Tsukamoto is Head of the Development and
Investment (DEVINVEST) Branch of the Employment
Policy Department at the International Labour Office
(ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Her career with the
ILO now spans over a period of 24 years working
in various capacities from strategic programming
and management, donor relations to working at the
humanitarian-development-peace nexus. Linking
fragility and climate challenges to sustainable
infrastructure development based on a human-
centred approach, for over half of her career, she has
supported different countries in Africa, Asia and Latin
America on community-driven efforts. All of these efforts using an employment intensive investment approach.
In the past she also worked with the World Bank on sector strategy research leading to advisory support to
governments on corporate social responsibility in business, education and trade.
In her last posting, she contributed to various policy papers, including “Towards the right to work: Innovations
in Public Employment Programmes (PEP)” a “Guidebook for designing innovative PEPs”. She also continues
to work on adaptation to climate change issues, where she co-authored a policy paper on “Towards an ILO
approach to climate change adaptation” and youth employment where she co-authored “Boosting youth
employment through PEPs”.
She is currently managing the four teams in DEVINVEST: the Coordination Support unit for Peace & Resilience
(CSPR), the Job Creation through Public Investments (JCPI), Structural transformation, Trade and Sectoral
Strategies (STS), and the Transition to Formality (T2F). Ms. Mito Tsukamoto holds an MBA and Honours
Certificate in International Business Diplomacy from Georgetown University. She is fluent in English, French and
Spanish, in addition to also getting by in Albanian, Japanese and Portuguese.
“Green Works offer the optimum nature-based solutions that addresses both labour market deficiencies and
environmental degradation.”
10Manuel Pulgar-Vidal
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal is the Global Leader of Climate
& Energy at WWF. He has 35 years of experience in
environmental law and policy and served as Minister of
the Environment of Peru (2011 to 2016) and President
of the Twentieth Conference of the Parties to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -
COP20 in 2014.
Pulgar-Vidal was the Executive Director of the Peruvian
Society for Environmental Law, an influential institution in
Latin America. He has a law degree from the Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú, where he is a professor,
and has completed studies for a master’s degree in
Business Law at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias
Aplicadas. He is a board member of Forest Trends,
Amazon Conservation Association and Peruvian Society
of Environmental Law and a member of the Assembly of
the World Wide Fund for Nature - Colombia.
He has recently been added to the Aspen Institute Management and Leadership Advisory Group and is the
chairman of the evaluation council of the French sovereign Green Bonds. He is an active member of different
groups aiming to get strong outcomes as a part of the formal climate talks and the non-party stakeholders’
agenda. He has been recognized by the governments of France, Germany and Spain and by the Royal
Scottish Geographical Society for his contribution to the Paris Agreement.
Ángela Andrade-Pérez
Ángela Andrade-Pérez is the Chair of the IUCN Commis-
sion on Ecosystem Management, a commission member
for more than 18 years and the former Deputy Chair of
the Commission from 2008 to 2016. Altogether, Ánge-
la has more than 25 years of experience in ecosystem
management. She worked in the Ministry of Environment
of Colombia for 14 years and joined Conservation Inter-
national-Colombia in 2004. She was appointed as the
Environmental Policy Director in 2009.
“Until now, there has been neither consensus nor co-
herent guidance on how to design and implement na-
ture-based solution interventions that are capable of
consistent delivery of benefits for people and nature. The
contribution of the Commission, in addition to input from
over 800 experts and practitioners from 100 countries,
has been to guide the IUCN Global Standard, ensuring
that it is scientifically robust and applicable across a wide
range of regions and scenarios.”
11Christiana Figueres
Christiana Figueres is a Costa Rican citizen and
an internationally recognized leader on climate
change. She was Executive Secretary of the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) from 2010 to 2016.
During her tenure at the UNFCCC, Ms. Figueres
brought together national and sub-national
governments, corporations and activists, financial
institutions and NGOs to jointly deliver the historic
Paris Agreement on climate change, in which 195 sovereign nations agreed on a collaborative path forward
to limit future global warming to well below 2°C, and strive for 1.5°C, in order to protect the most vulnerable.
For this achievement Ms. Figueres has been credited with forging a new brand of collaborative diplomacy and
received multiple awards.
Since then Ms. Figueres has continued to accelerate the global response to climate change. Today she is the
co-founder of Global Optimism, co-host of the podcast “Outrage & Optimism” and is the co-author of the
recently published book, “The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis.
Ms. Figueres sits on multiple executive and advisory boards and is a frequent public speaker and media
commentator. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the London School of Economics. She lives in
Costa Rica and has two fantastic daughters.
Asha Sumputh – Moderator
Born and raised in Mauritius, a paradise in the
Indian Ocean, where her grandfather was the first
Prime Minister at the independence of the country.
Asha grew up on a cosmopolitan island speaking
English, French, Hindi and Mauritian Creole.
With this versatile background, innate curiosity and
constant quest of discovering the world and other
cultures, she went to Europe to pursue a higher
education. She graduated Cambridge University,
and a earned her Masters in Economics and
Business Management from Sorbonne University in Paris.
Today, she is an entrepreneur, television journalist and emcee with a background in economics, finance and
politics. You can watch her shows "Sustainable Energy" on CNBC and Le Club on BFM Business. She is
currently directing and producing quality programmes for television channels as well as corporates. Two such
examples are ”Business Africa" and "Initiative Africa" – two weekly programmes, broadcast in fifty countries,
highlighting the economic and political news on the African continent.
Her favourite topics to cover are business, economics, finance, innovation, entrepreneurship, education and
ecology. Today, she is also a lecturer at the ENA (Ecole Nationale d’Administration) and Sorbonne University.
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