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Panel (L-R): Charles Besançon, LifeWeb, CBD Secretariat;
Session Moderator Nik Lopoukhine, Chair, IUCN/WCPA; Kathy MacKinnon, Vice-Chair, IUCN/WCPA;
CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Sousa Dias; Paul Grimes, Secretary, Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Populations and Communities, Australia; and Poul Engberg-Pedersen, Deputy Director General, IUCN. |
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Panel (L-R): Martin Frik, Ambassador to the UN, Germany; Jochen Flasbarth, President, German Federal Environment Agency (UBA); Alexander Mueller, UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO); Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary; Luc Gnacadja, UNCCD Executive Secretary; Don Koo Lee, Minister, Korea Forest Service, Republic of Korea; Timo Makela, Directorate-General of the Environment (DG-Environment), European Commission; Mannava Sivakumar, World Meteorological Organization (WMO); Kanayo Nwanze, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); and Jan McAlpine, UNFF. |
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Panel (L-R): Dennis Garrity, Executive Board Member, World Agroforestry Council (ICRAF); Jochen Flasbarth, President, UBA; Antonio Magalhães, Chair, UNCCD Committee on Science and Technology (CST); Don Koo Lee, Minister, Korea Forest Service, Republic of Korea; and Veerle Vandeweerd, UN Development Programme (UNDP) |
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Panel (L-R): Luca Montanarella, JRC, European Commission; Blessing Manale, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa; Sergio Zelaya, UNCCD Secretariat; Ibrahim Thiaw, Director, Department of Environmental Policy Implementation (DEPI), UNEP; and Kook-Hyun Moon, Chair, Sustainable Land Management (SLM) Business Forum. |
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The Rio Conventions Pavilion (RCP) continued on Saturday, 16 June 2012, focusing on Oceans. The event consisted of seven panels, a lunch celebrating 10 years of the Global Ocean Forum (GOF) and the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and a closing session presenting the outcomes of Oceans Day to the Rio+20 process.
Panel sessions included: renewing out political commitments - perspectives on Rio+20; scaling up integrated governance of the oceans; the living ocean - enhancing fisheries for food security, social and economic benefits; small island developing states (SIDS) and oceans - building resilience, enhancing social and economic benefits; climate change and ocean acidification; toward the blue economy and society - perspectives, experiences and initiatives; and moving forward.
Oceans Day was co-chaired by Biliana Cicin-Sain, President, Global Oceans Forum (GOF), Tuiloma Neroni Slade, Secretary General, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, and Wendy Watson-Wright, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).
 Read the daily report with highlights from Saturday, 16 June, in English (in HTML or PDF format)
Web coverage for Saturday, 16 June |
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Panel (L-R): Oceans Day Co-Chair Biliana Cicin-Sain, President, Global Oceans Forum (GOF); Gustavo Fonseca, the Global Environment Facility (GEF); Veerle Vandeweerd, UN Development Programme (UNDP);
Oceans Day Co-Chair Tuiloma Neroni Slade, Secretary General, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat;
Oceans Day Co-Chair Wendy Watson-Wright, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC); Wang Hong, State Oceanic Administration, China; Karl Falkenberg, Director-General for Environment, European Commission; and Ana Prates, Ministry of Environment, Brazil. |
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Panel (L-R): Juan Carlos Ordoñez, Vice Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Honduras; Flavio Bezzera da Silva, Secretary of Fisheries Planning and Regulation, Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Brazil; Su'a Tanielu, Director-General, Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), Solomon Islands; Rachel Kyte, Vice President for the Sustainable Development Network, World Bank; Árni Mathiesen, UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO); Russell Smith, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), US; Sebastian Mathew, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF); and Nicholas Watts, Commonwealth Human Ecology Council (CHEC), UK. |
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| The Rio Conventions Pavilion (RCP) opened on 13 June 2012, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in parallel with the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD or Rio+20). The Pavilion opened with a side event presented by the International Institute for Sustainable Development Reporting Services (IISD-RS) on “Roads from Rio,” and followed with a reception sponsored by the Rio Conventions, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The IISD-RS event launched the ENB Mobile app and the newly published book “The Roads from Rio: Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Multilateral Environmental Negotiations.”
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