Online Event: Mainstreaming biodiversity and sustainable use of natural resources across the agricultural sector - linkages with the European Green Deal and the COVID-19 response

FAO Brussels Dialogue

The world is facing unprecedented challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the immediate global priority is to tackle this public health emergency, our long-term response must address the disruption of nature’s balance, loss of biodiversity and degradation of natural resources and ecosystems.

Our distinguished panelists will discuss global efforts to transform agriculture and food systems in view of protecting biodiversity, addressing climate change and using natural resources more sustainably.

Register here to learn more about how biodiversity actions can be further mainstreamed in international policy, the key elements of UN-EU global collaboration on biodiversity and the role of other partners and sectors.

Speakers

High-level interventions

Maria-Helena Semedo
Deputy Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Joyce Msuya
Deputy Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

Daniel Calleja Crespo
Director-General, EU Commission Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV)

Norbert Lins
Chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and Member of European the Parliamentary Alliance against Hunger and Malnutrition, European Parliament

Panel discussion with questions from the audience

Mette Wilkie
Director, Forestry Policy and Resources Division, FAO

Maxwell Gomera
Head, Biodiversity and Land Branch, UNEP

Eduardo Mansur
Director, Land and Water Division, FAO

Manuel Barange
Director, Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy and Resources Division, FAO

Welcoming remarks

Rodrigo de Lapuerta
Director, Liaison Office with the European Union and the Kingdom of Belgium, FAO