Youth Dialogue with Janez Potočnik and Izabella Teixeira, UNEP/International Resource Panel Co-Chairs on Building Biodiversity - The Natural Resource Management Approach

• DATE: 24 June 2021

• TIME: :5:30pm - 6:30pm Central European Time 

Programme

• Welcome remarks by Youth and Environment Europe and the International Resource Panel

• Co-Chairs introduction

• Youth interventions and Co-Chairs responses

• Open Q&A

• Wrap-up and Closing Remarks

Speakers

• Merlyn Van Voore, Head of Secretariat, International Resource Panel (IRP), UN Environment Programme

• Izabella Teixeira, Co-Chair of the International Resource Panel, former Minister of Environment, Brazil

• Janez Potočnik, Co-chair of the International Resource Panel, Partner at SYSTEMIQ and former European Commissioner for Environment and Science

• Jessica Micklem, Coordinator of the Global Youth Biodiversity Network in Europe and Central Asia

• Speakers from other Youth networks still TBC

Moderated by Cathal Swan and Karolina Fabianova, Youth and Environment Europe

Background

Today Janez Potocnik and Izabella Teixeira are colleagues as Co-Chairs of the International Resource Panel (IRP). A decade ago, they became friends as negotiators at the 10th Conference of Parties of the Convention of Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan. They have distilled that decade of experience into clear, science-based principles in their new opinion piece Building Biodiversity – the Natural Resource Management Approach.

To the world’s efforts to restore and regenerate nature, they add the single-biggest missing piece: natural resource management. The picture that emerges is one of opportunity: for biodiversity-rich nations to achieve a truer value for their natural wealth and their role in maintaining ecosystem services, and for countries with higher resource footprints to make resource strategy part of a more efficient, environmentally secure future. As policy makers prepare for CBD COP 15, these science-based principles can help them move beyond pledges and commitments, and take action that we can soon see working in the natural world.

Youth and Environment Europe (YEE) is the largest independent European network of environmental youth organizations. YEE unites 52 member organisations coming from 30 countries. All activities and projects of YEE are organised and carried out by young people under 30. YEE organises, facilitates and supports projects and campaigns aiming to increase the knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the environment and the awareness of climate issues among young people in Europe.

This event builds on YEE and the IRP’s recent work to bring its research to a new audience: European youth. This online “Youth Dialogue with the IRP’s Co-Chairs” will therefore launch a new chapter of YEE and IRP collaboration.

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