GLOBA L A CO L MM A O N K E ATHO DA MAR N Y F OR WORLDWIDE

PROGRAMME November 27, 2020

0:00 – 6:00 PART 1

WELCOME REMARKS Gábor Molnár, Balaton Development Coordination Agency, Moderator of Part 1

INTRODUCTION OF THE Amy M. Lecciones, The Society for the Conservation of Philippine Wetlands

PRESENTATIONS ON LAKES AND LAKE MANAGEMENT ISSUES • () Amy M. Lecciones, The Society for the Conservation of Philippine Wetlands • Lake Baikal () Nina Dagbaeva, NGO Baikal Information Centre “GRAN” • Wilson Inlet () Basil Schur, Green Skills Inc. • Lake Tonle Sap (Cambodia) Youk Senglong, Fisheries Action Coalition Team “FACT” • Lake Bolgoda () Abeyrathne Ekanayake, EMACE Sri Lanka • Lake Chilika () Ajit Pattnaik, Lake Chilika Development Authority • Sundarbans Mangrove Forest (Bangladesh) Maksudur Rahman, Bangladesh Environment and Development Society “BEDS” Please note, that the time indicated in the programme is given in GMT+0. in given is the programme in the time indicated that note, Please • Sundarbans Mangrove Forest (India) Chandrima Sinha, Nature Environment & Wildlife Society “NEWS”

VIDEO FILMS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 6:00 – 12:00 PART 2

WELCOME REMARKS Zita Könczölné Egerszegi, Lake Balaton Development Coordination Agency, Moderator of Part 2

INTRODUCTION OF THE LIVING LAKES NETWORK Thomas Schaefer,

PRESENTATIONS ON LAKES AND LAKE MANAGEMENT ISSUES • Lake Urmia (Iran) Hossein Shahbaz, Urmia Lake Restoration Program “ULRP” • Lake Victoria (Africa) East African Communities` Organization for Management of Lake Victoria Resources (ECOVIC) • (Asia) Eshak S. Al Guza’a, EcoPeace Middle East • Lake Peipsi and Lake Võrtsjärv () Lea Tuvikene, Centre for Limnology, Estonian University of Life Sciences • Wetland restoration projects: LIFE Paludicola, Wetlands4Climate and RenaturWat () Antonio Guillem, Fundación Global Nature • Lakes in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region () Piotr Całbecki, President of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region and Member of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR)

VIDEO FILMS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LUNCH BREAK

Please note, that the time indicated in the programme is given in GMT+0. in given is the programme in time indicated that the note, Please LOCATIONS OF LAKES PRESENTED AT THE GLOBAL LAKE MARATHON 12:00 – 18:00 PART 3

WELCOME REMARKS • István Bóka, Chairman of the Lake Balaton Development Council and Member of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) • István Hegedűs, Lake Balaton Development Coordination Agency, Moderator of Part 3

INTRODUCTION OF THE LIVING LAKES NETWORK Udo Gattenlöhner, Global Nature Fund

PRESENTATIONS ON LAKES AND LAKE MANAGEMENT ISSUES • LIFE BLUE LAKES: How to ban Microplastics in Lakes in and Bettina Schmidt, Global Nature Fund • Water Framework Directive: How it protects our valuable water ecosystem (Germany) Michael Bender, Global Nature Fund • SAIME: Shall we buy shrimps at all – and of yes, what and from where? Moritz Konz, Global Nature Fund • Lake Constance (Germany) Marion Hammerl and Patrick Trötschler, Lake Constance Foundation • Lagos Vivos Subnetwork () Felipe Valderrama Escallón, Fundación Humedales • Lake Fúquene (Colombia) Julia Pérez Sillero, Fundación Humedales • Lake Tota (Colombia) Felipe Velasco, Fundación Montecito • Eutrophication and cyanobacteria in Brazilian lakes Sandra Azevedo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro • Lake Chapala () Please note, that the time indicated in the programme is given in GMT+0. in given is the programme in time indicated that the note, Please Alejandro Juarez, Instituto Corazón de la Tierra • Lake Zapotlan (Mexico) Jesús Espinosa Arias, Lago Viviente Zapotlan • Okavango Delta () Karen S. Ross, CHASE Africa “Community Health and Sustainable Environment”

VIDEO FILMS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 18:00 – 24:00 PART 4

WELCOME REMARKS Gábor Molnár, Lake Balaton Development Coordination Agency, Moderator of Part 4

INTRODUCTION OF THE LIVING LAKES NETWORK David Marchetti, Global Nature Fund

PRESENTATIONS ON LAKES AND LAKE MANAGEMENT ISSUES • Bahía de Samaná (Dominica) Patricia Lamelas, Centro para la Conservación y Ecodesarrollo de la Bahia de Samana y su Entorno “CEBSE” • Lake Buchanan (Texas, USA) Al Groeger, Texas State University • Integrated Lake Basin Management - a tool for sustainable lake management Walter Rast, International Lake Environment Committee • The land of the lakes: Cajas National Park (Ecuador) Henrietta Hampel, Aquatic Ecology Laboratory (LEA) of the University of Cuenca • The extreme world of soda lakes Attila Szabó, Centre for Ecological Research, Balaton Limnological Institute • Balancing human needs and ecosystem health in the large, shallow Lake Balaton () Károly Pálffy, Centre for Ecological Research, Balaton Limnological Institute • The ecology of lake ecosystems Ferenc Jordán, Centre for Ecological Research, Balaton Limnological Institute

VIDEO FILMS Please note, that the time indicated in the programme is given in GMT+0. in given is the programme in time indicated that the note, Please QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS CLOSURE OF THE EVENT

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