Summary
On Friday, the second day of the IUCN WCC, participants attended the first day of the Forum, during which they focused on exploring solutions to some of the planet’s most pressing conservation and sustainability challenges.
During the opening ceremony, Prince Charles, via video, shared a Hawaiian proverb, “Pupukahi i holomua – we must unite to move forward.” Inger Andersen, IUCN Director General, said the IUCN’s role is to raise awareness about the planet being at a crossroads. Tom Friedman, the New York Times, highlighted that “later is officially over, we can remove it from the dictionary as later will now be too late.”
Brooke Runnette, National Geographic Society, shared efforts to empower people and create a community of change. Hong Youngpyo, Republic of Korea, reviewed progress since the 2012 WCC, saying that “we can choose a path of co-existence or no existence at all.”
In a high-level event on championing nature-based solutions, panelists discussed economic and security risks posed by climate change, the valuable role of ecosystems and biodiversity to combat climate change, and other co-benefits of protecting nature and empowering women.
In another high-level event on leveraging private sector finance for public good, Naoko Ishii, the GEF CEO and Chairperson, said "the way to transform the economic system is to change the way the private sector sees the value of nature."
Events continued into the evening, when IUCN and the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) launched "Protected Planet Report 2016."
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Forum Opening Ceremony
A Hawai‘ian Blessing Ceremony the opening of the Forum
Welcome video from Prince Charles
Alison Sudol, Goodwill Ambassador, IUCN
Tom Friedman, Foreign Affairs Columnist, the New York Times
Brooke Runnette, Executive Vice President, Chief Program and Impact Officer, National Geographic Society
US President Barack Obama and Sylvia Earle, Oceanographer, during his visit to Hawai‘i prior to the start of the Congress
Panelists applaud during the session
Inger Andersen, Director General, IUCN
Hong Youngpyo, Representative of the 2012 World
Conservation Congress host, Republic of Korea
Panel discussion entitled 'Move into Action: The ecosystems that underpin our economies, well-being and survival are collapsing'
Sally Jewell, US Secretary of the Interior
Peter Bakker, President and CEO, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Irina Bokova, Director General, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Erik Solheim, Executive Director, UNEP
Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson,
the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Alejandro Del Mazo Maza, National Commissioner
for Natural Protected Areas, Mexico
Edward Osborne Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Climate Change: Championing Nature-Based Solutions
Panel speakers during the session
Inger Andersen, Director General, IUCN
Moderator Tom Friedman, Foreign Affairs Columnist, the New York Times
Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Prime Minister Enele Sosene Sopoaga, Tuvalu
Xavier Sticker, Ambassador for the Environment, France
Peter Seligmann, Chairman and CEO, Conservation International
Martha Rojas-Urrego, Secretary General, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Tom Butler, President and CEO, International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)
Participants during the session
Islands at Risk: Meeting the Global Challenge of Invasive Alien Species
Panelists of the event
Braulio Dias, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Executive Secretary
Kevin Smith, Invasive Species Programme Officer, IUCN
Moderator Anna Tira‘a, IUCN
Piero Genovesi, Chair, Invasive Species Specialist Group, IUCN
A slide shown during the presentation
Participants discuss matters in breakout groups
A graphic recording of the proceedings done by Leah Silverman
Youth participants during the session
Private Finance for Public Good
Panel speakers for the session
Christy Goldfuss, Managing Director, White House
Council on Environmental Quality
Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson, the GEF
Camilla Seth, Executive Director, Sustainable Finance, JPMorgan Chase
Fabian Huwyler, Vice President, Global Sustainability Group, Credit Suisse
Julia Bucknall, Director for Environment and Natural Resources, World Bank
Dale Galvin, Managing Director of Sustainable Markets and Finance, Rare
Terry Tamminen, CEO, Leonardo
DiCaprio Foundation
John Tobin, Cornell College of Business and Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, Cornell University
Stephan Opitz, Director General for Policy and Latin
American Region, KfW Development Bank
Lynn Scarlett, Global Managing Director for
Public Policy, the Nature Conservancy
Members of the Coalition for Private Investment in Conservation, which was launched during the event
The Road Ahead: Toyota and the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - Driving Private Sector Engagement for Biodiversity Conservation
Panelists during the session
Jane Smart, Global Director, Biodiversity Conservation Group, IUCN
Braulio Dias, CBD Executive Secretary
Tom Stricker, Toyota Motor North America
Judith Garber, US Department of State
Hesiquio Benítez Díaz, Director General, International Cooperation and Implementation, CONABIO, Mexico
Participants attend a reception in the evening
Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) Consultative Forum: Exchanging Experience
on Application of the KBA Standard at the National Level
Panel speakers for the event
Annabelle Cuttelod, KBA Project Coordinator
Moderator Simon Stuart, Chair, IUCN Species Survival Commission
Saw Htun, Wildlife Conservation
Society, Myanmar
Paul Matiku,Director, Nature Kenya
Zoltan Waliczky, Birdlife International
Olivier Langrand, Executive Director, Critical
Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF)
Mark Zimsky, the GEF
Participants discuss KBA standards in breakout groups
Natural Capital Protocol and Sector Guides Hawai‘i Launch
Participants gather for the launch event
Mark Gough, Natural Capital Coalition
Holly Dublin, IUCN
Peter Bakker, WBCSD
Peter Seligmann, Chairman and CEO, Conservation International
A participant writes the ingredients of the “cocktail” needed for getting the Protocol widely adopted
Conservation Case - High Seas
Participants engage on how to build coalitions and input into international processes
David Freestone, Executive Secretary, Sargasso Sea Commission
Carl Gustaf Lundin, IUCN
David VanderZwaag, Dalhousie University, Canada
Antonio Claparols, Ecological Society of the Philippines
Marine Seismic Surveys: Management Guidelines
Moderator Carl Gustaf Lundin, IUCN
Douglas Nowacek, Nicholas School of
the Environment, Duke University
Participants during the event
Ecosystems and Society in a Changing World: Experience, Exchange, and Learning about Ecosystem-Based Adaptation and Eco-Disaster Risk Reduction that Works!
Paul Schumacher, Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Udo Nehren, University of Applied Sciences Cologne
Jaruwan Enright, Mangrove Action Project
Participants engage during the session
L-R: Udo Nehren, University of Applied Science Cologne; Paul Schumacher, GIZ; Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, IUCN;
Adam Whelchel, the Nature Conservancy; Shaun Martin, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Launch of IUCN/UNEP-WCMC Protected Planet 2016 Report
Neville Ash, Director, UNEP World Conservation
Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
Nina Bhola, UNEP WCMC
Marina Von Weissenberg, Ministerial Advisor, Finland
Kathy MacKinnon, Chair, WCPA
Norbert Bärlocher, Office of Environment, Switzerland
Braulio Dias, CBD Executive Secretary
Participants during the event
Press Conferences Throughout the Day
Press conference on elephant conservation initiatives
Press Conference with Edward Osborne Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Around the Venue
Delegates around the venue
Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC,
speaks with Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga, Tuvalu
Erik Solheim, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), being interviewed by Nicole de Paula and Hernán Aguilar, Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB)
Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace
Meg Taylor, Secretary General to the Pacific
Islands Forum, speaks with participants
Exhibits on display throughout the venue
With backgrounds painted by an elephant, this 'inter-species' art from the Rama Exhibition
aims at raising awareness about the plight of endangered species
