BACKGROUND as a complement to North-South cooperation, to bridge science and policy gaps in achieving Our planet is under increasing threats from sustainable development goals and climate targets. ecological degradation, declining biodiversity, This must involve support in nancing, technology worsening deserti cation and frequent extreme and capacity building to help developing countries weather events pose severe challenges to human transition to green and low-carbon development. survival. Particularly, 1 billion people in over 100 developing countries are locked in the cycle of In recognition of this, and in commemoration of poverty and environmental degradation made World Environment Day 2021 themed with worse by the e ects of climate change. On the other ‘Ecosystem Restoration’, COMSATS Centre for hand, healthy ecosystems and their services Climate and Sustainability (CCCS) in collaboration provide opportunities for sustainable economic with the United Nations Environment prosperity while at the same time providing Programme-International Ecosystem Management defense against the negative e ects of climate Partnership (UNEP-IEMP) will organize a virtual change. When applicable, Ecosystem Restoration conference on “Ecosystem Restoration in the Global should be an important component of South” on 7 June 2021 to celebrate the continuous conservation and development e orts so that the e orts around developing regions in conserving livelihoods of people depending on these and restoring ecosystems and spearheading degraded ecosystems can be sustained in a post-COVID-19 recovery. changing climate. Embracing the theme of Ecosystem Restoration this World Environment Day 2021 A wealth of knowledge, experience, and good virtual conference will bring together key experts in practices has been accumulated by many of the elds of ecosystem restoration, conservation Virtual Conference on developing countries in the domain of ecosystem and sustainable management from the Global restoration. As an example, the Chinese Ecosystem South to share good practices and lessons learnt of Ecosystem Restoration Research Network (CERN) has established a unique ecosystem research and management, as well as to approach of integrating monitoring and research explore partnership opportunities to further in the Global South with demonstration and national policy setting collaborate on the topics of ecosystem restoration. Monday, 7 June 2021 3:00-5:00 PM (GMT+5) which directly supports decision-making for ecosystem management. Times has come to promote South-South exchange and cooperation,
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O y C https://zoom.us/meeting/register/ Mr. Saifullah Dilazak, Program O cer CCCS tJYtfuiprj4qGNIF5uQmMBChqeLYmkqkUBQG Email: [email protected] MALIK AMIN ASLAM Director of International A airs, Ministry of missions in Paris, New York and Washington. Environment, Finland Malik Amin Aslam is the Special Assistant (rank of In addition to his work in international relations and Federal Minister) to the Prime Minister of In fact, Kerstin started her UNEP career as a Junior diplomacy, Ambassador Kamal has taken keen interest Pakistan on Climate Change. He is Professional O cer in the Convention on Biological in areas of climate change, higher education, honorarily serving as the elected Diversity Secretariat in Montreal 1996-1998. technology and entrepreneurship. Ambassador Kamal Global Vice President of IUCN established the Centre for Climate Research & (International Union for DR. LINXIU ZHANG Development at COMSATS University in Islamabad, and Conservation of Nature). He has was instrumental in setting up the Centre for previously chaired the agship “Green Dr. Linxiu Zhang, TWAS Fellow, UNEP senior sta and Entrepreneurial Development at the Institute of Growth initiative” for the KPK province in Pakistan – Director, UNEP-International Ecosystem Business Administration in Karachi. He participated in which included the mass forestation “Billion Tree Management Partnership the UNFCCC led negotiations on climate change from Tsunami” project. (UNEP-IEMP), a joint center between 2007 to 2012 and was member of Pakistan delegation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences UN Climate Summit Conferences in Copenhagen (2009) He served as Member of Parliament from 2002-07 and (CAS) and UNEP. She is leading the and Paris (2015). from 2004-07 as Minister of State for Environment and, implementation of UNEP’s agship in this capacity, has been the architect of the country’s programme focusing on the nexus of MR. JAMIL AHMAD National Policies on environment and climate change. climate change, ecosystem services and sustainable Malik Amin Aslam has worked as the Prime Minister’s livelihoods (CEL) through South-South cooperation. She Mr. Jamil Ahmad is Director, Intergovernmental A airs, special envoy for reform of the UN governance system. is a liated with the Institute of Geographic Sciences and UN Environment Programme, New York. He has also had the privilege of chairing the G77+China Natural Resources Research as a senior research fellow of He leads work on sustainable negotiations group and leading Pakistan’s climate CAS and a professor at the University of Chinese Academy development and the environment change negotiations at various COP meeting since 1999. of Sciences (UCAS). Her research interest is on policy in support of the organization’s relevant studies relating to poverty alleviation and policies and programmes. He has been chosen to serve on the high level sustainable livelihoods, poverty-environment dynamics, “International Advisory Council” for the Eco-Forum climate change adaptation and gender. She is the winner A s an advocate of sustainability, he regularly Global – an environmental think-tank advising the of TWAS “Celso-Furtado Prize” in Social Sciences and engages with think thanks, universities, and research Government of China. Mr. Malik is an electrical engineer “Fudan Management Excellence Award”. institutes, speaks to civil society groups, o cial with an MBA from McGill University and an MSc from delegations, students and other stakeholders about Oxford University. AMBASSADOR SHAHID KAMAL environment, climate change and sustainable development. He has been representing the UN MS. KERSTIN STENDAHL Ambassador Shahid Kamal is Advisor at the Commission Environment in international events and conferences. on Science and Technology for Ms. Kerstin Stendahl is Head of the Ecosystems Sustainable Development in the A senior career diplomat, Mr. Jamil Ahmad entered the Integration Branch supporting and South (COMSATS). He is the Founder Foreign service of Pakistan in 1986 and has served in servicing Regional Seas, Poverty and and Head of COMSATS Centre for several duty stations in Asia, Europe and Africa with rich Environment Action for Sustainable Climate and Sustainability, a network experience of bilateral and multilateral a airs. He Development Goals and the of the Global South, which he set up in participated in numerous important UN and other International Ecosystems 2019 to focus on inter-connections of intergovernmental meetings. He was lead negotiator of Management Partnership. Prior to the climate change and sustainable development. G77 and China for Climate Change. current post, she was the Deputy secretary of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Ambassador Kamal has been a career diplomat of DR. ERNEST FOLI Change (IPCC) from Jan 2017 until March 2020 She Pakistan, served as Ambassador to Germany, Sweden & joined UNEP in Nov.2012 served as Deputy executive Finland. He held senior positions at the Ministry of Dr. Ernest Foli is a Principal Research Scientist and former secretary, UNEP/ Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Foreign A airs, Prime Minister’s O ce, Organization of Deputy-Director at the CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Conventions.Before she joined UNEP, she was the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah, and diplomatic Ghana. He holds a PhD and MPhil in Forestry from the
University of Aberdeen, UK. He has 33 years’ experience in Center of Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN). He research has focused on assessing the tolerance of forestry research and has held several has over 10 years of experiences on monitoring individual species to drought as well as phytoremediation management positions during this and research on Loess Plateau restoration potential of tree species on mined sites Other research areas period. His current eld of interest is under China`s Grain for Green include the study of impacts of re on farming systems and Forest Landscape Restoration for programme. Dr. Liu is experienced in socio-economic status of farmers in forest fringe climate change mitigation and soil erosion and eco-hydrological communities and on conservation e orts including adaptation. With more than 18 years’ monitoring and modeling, and conservation of endemic species and community teaching experience he currently application of remote sensing for involvement in forest landscape restoration. coordinates a postgraduate programme in Climate ecosystem observation and assessment. He focused on the Change and Integrated Natural Resources Management. relationship between landscape pattern and earth surface PROF. TERRENCE FORRESTER processes, and ecosystem services ow in the context of Dr. Foli was one of the 15 eminent scientists appointed by landscape change. He got his Ph.D on landscape ecology Prof. Forrester, who is Director of UWI SODECO, is a the UN General Assembly to draft the 2019 Global from the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Physiologist and Academic Physician Sustainable Development Report. He has made Chinese Academy of Sciences. whose research focus is broadly, direct signi cant contribution to science with about 215 biological contributions to human scienti c outputs, including 33 peer-reviewed journal MR. MAURICIO ANDRÉS VALENCIA CAMELO resilience. More recently Professor articles, 14 books, 10 manuals/Policy Briefs, 63 scienti c Forrester has been addressing reports, and about 95 conference papers. He is a member Mr. Mauricio Andrés Valencia Camelo is an Environmental translation research to enhance human of 12 International Professional Associations/ Engineer, Specialist in the Environmental resilience through environmental Committees/Boards and 24 local/national Associations/ Impact Study Projects, and Master in interventions. Current area of work is restoration and Boards/Committees. Environmental Management. Currently preservation of mangrove forests along the Jamaican coast Working as Director in CIF. Research which has embedded within interventions to enhance MS. GUOQIN WANG Experience, associated with the positive and mitigate or remove negative drivers of human formulation and direction projects, with resilience. Ms. Guoqin Wang is a Programme Manager of UNEP`s knowledge in the diagnosis and International Ecosystem Management implementation of environmental management systems, DR. MAHER J. TADROS Partnership. She has been working at aimed at nding solutions to environmental problems and this global center of UNEP on minimization of impacts as reforestation productively, Dr. Maher J. Tadros is Professor in Vegetation Ecology and South-South Cooperation as a planning the sustainable use of natural resources. Management in Departments of Natural founding member since 2010. In Resources and Environment (DNRE) and 2014-2016, she was the project DR. LUCY AMISSAH Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture, manager of GEF funded EbA South project, Jordan University of Science and responsible for this global project management in the Dr. Lucy Amissah is an Ecologist, and a Senior Research Technology. Ph.D in forestry and domain of Ecosystem-based Adaptation and South-South Scientist with the CSIR-Forestry Research natural resources, Purdue University Cooperation.Prior to this, Guoqin worked with the Institute of Ghana (FORIG). She holds a (2003), USA. MSc and BSc in plant Chinese Ecosystem Research Network as a project o cer Ph.D in Forest Ecology and Forest production (1995, 1997) University of Jordan. in 2008-2010, responsible for international cooperation Management from the Wageningen Research interest in vegetation ecology and management, activities and outreach . Guoqin holds a Masters in University, the Netherlands. Dr. Lucy conservation, drought and salinity stresses. Experience in Ecology from the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Amissah has over twenty years’ desert plants propagation. Assistant dean (2013-2018) and Academy of Sciences. experience in research and development DNRE Chairman (2006-2008). Several projects with specialization in technology in forest ecology, Environmental Impact Assessment on nationally and DR. LIU YU landscape restoration, biodiversity conservation and re internationally levels such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and management. Her research focuses on studying the Pakistan. Consultant in the IUCN, UNDP and HFJBD. Dr. Liu Yu is an Associate Professor of the Institute of impacts of disturbances on tree distribution and plant Geographical and Natural Resources Research, Chinese diversity, and how the characteristics of species in uence Academy of Sciences, and Deputy Director of the Synthesis their responses to these disturbances. In addition, her past
DR. DINARA ABIYEVA
Dr. Dinara Abiyeva, Managing Director of GIS-Centre, JSC “Institute of Geography and Water Security.” She has considerable experience in various elds – from education to work experience in international level (GEF/WB, UNDP) and national research centers, private sector (software and environmental companies). Most of her w o r k is devoted to geographic information systems.
Dr. Abiyeva is a Principal Investigator and a participant of numerous projects related to development Web-GIS services (products, tools, and applications) that contribute to the implementation of new approaches to research on the green economy, water resources, mapping and assessment of essential areas of ecosystem services in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
DR. RANGIKA BANDARA
Dr. Rangika Bandara is Senior Lecturer,Department of Zoology and Environmental Management, University of Kelaniya. She earned her BSC degree in Forestry and Environment Science with rst class honors from University of Sri Jayawardenapura in 2005. She earned both of her Master of Science degree in Forestry and Environment Science in 2008 from Louisiana State University, USA and Ph.D. in Forestry and Environment Science in 2011 from the same University. She was awarded Graduate Student Merit Honor Award in 2009 and in 2011 by Gamma Sigma Delta, the Honor Society of Agriculture, Louisiana State University Chapter. She specialized in forestry, forest products certi cation and marketing, environment management and ecotourism. Dr. Bandara is a consultant in cleaner production, eco-design and chemical leasing. At present she is serving as the symposium coordinator of the 4th International Research Symposium on Pure and Applied Sciences (IRSPAS – 2019) organized by the University of Kelaniya. MALIK AMIN ASLAM Director of International A airs, Ministry of missions in Paris, New York and Washington. Environment, Finland Malik Amin Aslam is the Special Assistant (rank of In addition to his work in international relations and Federal Minister) to the Prime Minister of In fact, Kerstin started her UNEP career as a Junior diplomacy, Ambassador Kamal has taken keen interest Pakistan on Climate Change. He is Professional O cer in the Convention on Biological in areas of climate change, higher education, honorarily serving as the elected Diversity Secretariat in Montreal 1996-1998. technology and entrepreneurship. Ambassador Kamal Global Vice President of IUCN established the Centre for Climate Research & (International Union for DR. LINXIU ZHANG Development at COMSATS University in Islamabad, and Conservation of Nature). He has was instrumental in setting up the Centre for previously chaired the agship “Green Dr. Linxiu Zhang, TWAS Fellow, UNEP senior sta and Entrepreneurial Development at the Institute of Growth initiative” for the KPK province in Pakistan – Director, UNEP-International Ecosystem Business Administration in Karachi. He participated in which included the mass forestation “Billion Tree Management Partnership the UNFCCC led negotiations on climate change from Tsunami” project. (UNEP-IEMP), a joint center between 2007 to 2012 and was member of Pakistan delegation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences UN Climate Summit Conferences in Copenhagen (2009) He served as Member of Parliament from 2002-07 and (CAS) and UNEP. She is leading the and Paris (2015). from 2004-07 as Minister of State for Environment and, implementation of UNEP’s agship in this capacity, has been the architect of the country’s programme focusing on the nexus of MR. JAMIL AHMAD National Policies on environment and climate change. climate change, ecosystem services and sustainable Malik Amin Aslam has worked as the Prime Minister’s livelihoods (CEL) through South-South cooperation. She Mr. Jamil Ahmad is Director, Intergovernmental A airs, special envoy for reform of the UN governance system. is a liated with the Institute of Geographic Sciences and UN Environment Programme, New York. He has also had the privilege of chairing the G77+China Natural Resources Research as a senior research fellow of He leads work on sustainable negotiations group and leading Pakistan’s climate CAS and a professor at the University of Chinese Academy development and the environment change negotiations at various COP meeting since 1999. of Sciences (UCAS). Her research interest is on policy in support of the organization’s relevant studies relating to poverty alleviation and policies and programmes. He has been chosen to serve on the high level sustainable livelihoods, poverty-environment dynamics, “International Advisory Council” for the Eco-Forum climate change adaptation and gender. She is the winner A s an advocate of sustainability, he regularly Global – an environmental think-tank advising the of TWAS “Celso-Furtado Prize” in Social Sciences and engages with think thanks, universities, and research Government of China. Mr. Malik is an electrical engineer “Fudan Management Excellence Award”. institutes, speaks to civil society groups, o cial with an MBA from McGill University and an MSc from delegations, students and other stakeholders about Oxford University. AMBASSADOR SHAHID KAMAL environment, climate change and sustainable development. He has been representing the UN MS. KERSTIN STENDAHL Ambassador Shahid Kamal is Advisor at the Commission Environment in international events and conferences. on Science and Technology for Ms. Kerstin Stendahl is Head of the Ecosystems Sustainable Development in the A senior career diplomat, Mr. Jamil Ahmad entered the Integration Branch supporting and South (COMSATS). He is the Founder Foreign service of Pakistan in 1986 and has served in servicing Regional Seas, Poverty and and Head of COMSATS Centre for several duty stations in Asia, Europe and Africa with rich Environment Action for Sustainable Climate and Sustainability, a network experience of bilateral and multilateral a airs. He Development Goals and the of the Global South, which he set up in participated in numerous important UN and other International Ecosystems 2019 to focus on inter-connections of intergovernmental meetings. He was lead negotiator of Management Partnership. Prior to the climate change and sustainable development. G77 and China for Climate Change. current post, she was the Deputy secretary of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Ambassador Kamal has been a career diplomat of DR. ERNEST FOLI Change (IPCC) from Jan 2017 until March 2020 She Pakistan, served as Ambassador to Germany, Sweden & joined UNEP in Nov.2012 served as Deputy executive Finland. He held senior positions at the Ministry of Dr. Ernest Foli is a Principal Research Scientist and former secretary, UNEP/ Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Foreign A airs, Prime Minister’s O ce, Organization of Deputy-Director at the CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Conventions.Before she joined UNEP, she was the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah, and diplomatic Ghana. He holds a PhD and MPhil in Forestry from the
University of Aberdeen, UK. He has 33 years’ experience in Center of Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN). He research has focused on assessing the tolerance of forestry research and has held several has over 10 years of experiences on monitoring individual species to drought as well as phytoremediation management positions during this and research on Loess Plateau restoration potential of tree species on mined sites Other research areas period. His current eld of interest is under China`s Grain for Green include the study of impacts of re on farming systems and Forest Landscape Restoration for programme. Dr. Liu is experienced in socio-economic status of farmers in forest fringe climate change mitigation and soil erosion and eco-hydrological communities and on conservation e orts including adaptation. With more than 18 years’ monitoring and modeling, and conservation of endemic species and community teaching experience he currently application of remote sensing for involvement in forest landscape restoration. coordinates a postgraduate programme in Climate ecosystem observation and assessment. He focused on the Change and Integrated Natural Resources Management. relationship between landscape pattern and earth surface PROF. TERRENCE FORRESTER processes, and ecosystem services ow in the context of Dr. Foli was one of the 15 eminent scientists appointed by landscape change. He got his Ph.D on landscape ecology Prof. Forrester, who is Director of UWI SODECO, is a the UN General Assembly to draft the 2019 Global from the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Physiologist and Academic Physician Sustainable Development Report. He has made Chinese Academy of Sciences. whose research focus is broadly, direct signi cant contribution to science with about 215 biological contributions to human scienti c outputs, including 33 peer-reviewed journal MR. MAURICIO ANDRÉS VALENCIA CAMELO resilience. More recently Professor articles, 14 books, 10 manuals/Policy Briefs, 63 scienti c Forrester has been addressing reports, and about 95 conference papers. He is a member Mr. Mauricio Andrés Valencia Camelo is an Environmental translation research to enhance human of 12 International Professional Associations/ Engineer, Specialist in the Environmental resilience through environmental Committees/Boards and 24 local/national Associations/ Impact Study Projects, and Master in interventions. Current area of work is restoration and Boards/Committees. Environmental Management. Currently preservation of mangrove forests along the Jamaican coast Working as Director in CIF. Research which has embedded within interventions to enhance MS. GUOQIN WANG Experience, associated with the positive and mitigate or remove negative drivers of human formulation and direction projects, with resilience. Ms. Guoqin Wang is a Programme Manager of UNEP`s knowledge in the diagnosis and International Ecosystem Management implementation of environmental management systems, DR. MAHER J. TADROS Partnership. She has been working at aimed at nding solutions to environmental problems and this global center of UNEP on minimization of impacts as reforestation productively, Dr. Maher J. Tadros is Professor in Vegetation Ecology and South-South Cooperation as a planning the sustainable use of natural resources. Management in Departments of Natural founding member since 2010. In Resources and Environment (DNRE) and 2014-2016, she was the project DR. LUCY AMISSAH Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture, manager of GEF funded EbA South project, Jordan University of Science and responsible for this global project management in the Dr. Lucy Amissah is an Ecologist, and a Senior Research Technology. Ph.D in forestry and domain of Ecosystem-based Adaptation and South-South Scientist with the CSIR-Forestry Research natural resources, Purdue University Cooperation.Prior to this, Guoqin worked with the Institute of Ghana (FORIG). She holds a (2003), USA. MSc and BSc in plant Chinese Ecosystem Research Network as a project o cer Ph.D in Forest Ecology and Forest production (1995, 1997) University of Jordan. in 2008-2010, responsible for international cooperation Management from the Wageningen Research interest in vegetation ecology and management, activities and outreach . Guoqin holds a Masters in University, the Netherlands. Dr. Lucy conservation, drought and salinity stresses. Experience in Ecology from the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Amissah has over twenty years’ desert plants propagation. Assistant dean (2013-2018) and Academy of Sciences. experience in research and development DNRE Chairman (2006-2008). Several projects with specialization in technology in forest ecology, Environmental Impact Assessment on nationally and DR. LIU YU landscape restoration, biodiversity conservation and re internationally levels such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and management. Her research focuses on studying the Pakistan. Consultant in the IUCN, UNDP and HFJBD. Dr. Liu Yu is an Associate Professor of the Institute of impacts of disturbances on tree distribution and plant Geographical and Natural Resources Research, Chinese diversity, and how the characteristics of species in uence Academy of Sciences, and Deputy Director of the Synthesis their responses to these disturbances. In addition, her past
DR. DINARA ABIYEVA
Dr. Dinara Abiyeva, Managing Director of GIS-Centre, JSC “Institute of Geography and Water Security.” She has considerable experience in various elds – from education to work experience in international level (GEF/WB, UNDP) and national research centers, private sector (software and environmental companies). Most of her w o r k is devoted to geographic information systems.
Dr. Abiyeva is a Principal Investigator and a participant of numerous projects related to development Web-GIS services (products, tools, and applications) that contribute to the implementation of new approaches to research on the green economy, water resources, mapping and assessment of essential areas of ecosystem services in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
DR. RANGIKA BANDARA
Dr. Rangika Bandara is Senior Lecturer,Department of Zoology and Environmental Management, University of Kelaniya. She earned her BSC degree in Forestry and Environment Science with rst class honors from University of Sri Jayawardenapura in 2005. She earned both of her Master of Science degree in Forestry and Environment Science in 2008 from Louisiana State University, USA and Ph.D. in Forestry and Environment Science in 2011 from the same University. She was awarded Graduate Student Merit Honor Award in 2009 and in 2011 by Gamma Sigma Delta, the Honor Society of Agriculture, Louisiana State University Chapter. She specialized in forestry, forest products certi cation and marketing, environment management and ecotourism. Dr. Bandara is a consultant in cleaner production, eco-design and chemical leasing. At present she is serving as the symposium coordinator of the 4th International Research Symposium on Pure and Applied Sciences (IRSPAS – 2019) organized by the University of Kelaniya. MALIK AMIN ASLAM Director of International A airs, Ministry of missions in Paris, New York and Washington. Environment, Finland Malik Amin Aslam is the Special Assistant (rank of In addition to his work in international relations and Federal Minister) to the Prime Minister of In fact, Kerstin started her UNEP career as a Junior diplomacy, Ambassador Kamal has taken keen interest Pakistan on Climate Change. He is Professional O cer in the Convention on Biological in areas of climate change, higher education, honorarily serving as the elected Diversity Secretariat in Montreal 1996-1998. technology and entrepreneurship. Ambassador Kamal Global Vice President of IUCN established the Centre for Climate Research & (International Union for DR. LINXIU ZHANG Development at COMSATS University in Islamabad, and Conservation of Nature). He has was instrumental in setting up the Centre for previously chaired the agship “Green Dr. Linxiu Zhang, TWAS Fellow, UNEP senior sta and Entrepreneurial Development at the Institute of Growth initiative” for the KPK province in Pakistan – Director, UNEP-International Ecosystem Business Administration in Karachi. He participated in which included the mass forestation “Billion Tree Management Partnership the UNFCCC led negotiations on climate change from Tsunami” project. (UNEP-IEMP), a joint center between 2007 to 2012 and was member of Pakistan delegation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences UN Climate Summit Conferences in Copenhagen (2009) He served as Member of Parliament from 2002-07 and (CAS) and UNEP. She is leading the and Paris (2015). from 2004-07 as Minister of State for Environment and, implementation of UNEP’s agship in this capacity, has been the architect of the country’s programme focusing on the nexus of MR. JAMIL AHMAD National Policies on environment and climate change. climate change, ecosystem services and sustainable Malik Amin Aslam has worked as the Prime Minister’s livelihoods (CEL) through South-South cooperation. She Mr. Jamil Ahmad is Director, Intergovernmental A airs, special envoy for reform of the UN governance system. is a liated with the Institute of Geographic Sciences and UN Environment Programme, New York. He has also had the privilege of chairing the G77+China Natural Resources Research as a senior research fellow of He leads work on sustainable negotiations group and leading Pakistan’s climate CAS and a professor at the University of Chinese Academy development and the environment change negotiations at various COP meeting since 1999. of Sciences (UCAS). Her research interest is on policy in support of the organization’s relevant studies relating to poverty alleviation and policies and programmes. He has been chosen to serve on the high level sustainable livelihoods, poverty-environment dynamics, “International Advisory Council” for the Eco-Forum climate change adaptation and gender. She is the winner A s an advocate of sustainability, he regularly Global – an environmental think-tank advising the of TWAS “Celso-Furtado Prize” in Social Sciences and engages with think thanks, universities, and research Government of China. Mr. Malik is an electrical engineer “Fudan Management Excellence Award”. institutes, speaks to civil society groups, o cial with an MBA from McGill University and an MSc from delegations, students and other stakeholders about Oxford University. AMBASSADOR SHAHID KAMAL environment, climate change and sustainable development. He has been representing the UN MS. KERSTIN STENDAHL Ambassador Shahid Kamal is Advisor at the Commission Environment in international events and conferences. on Science and Technology for Ms. Kerstin Stendahl is Head of the Ecosystems Sustainable Development in the A senior career diplomat, Mr. Jamil Ahmad entered the Integration Branch supporting and South (COMSATS). He is the Founder Foreign service of Pakistan in 1986 and has served in servicing Regional Seas, Poverty and and Head of COMSATS Centre for several duty stations in Asia, Europe and Africa with rich Environment Action for Sustainable Climate and Sustainability, a network experience of bilateral and multilateral a airs. He Development Goals and the of the Global South, which he set up in participated in numerous important UN and other International Ecosystems 2019 to focus on inter-connections of intergovernmental meetings. He was lead negotiator of Management Partnership. Prior to the climate change and sustainable development. G77 and China for Climate Change. current post, she was the Deputy secretary of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Ambassador Kamal has been a career diplomat of DR. ERNEST FOLI Change (IPCC) from Jan 2017 until March 2020 She Pakistan, served as Ambassador to Germany, Sweden & joined UNEP in Nov.2012 served as Deputy executive Finland. He held senior positions at the Ministry of Dr. Ernest Foli is a Principal Research Scientist and former secretary, UNEP/ Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Foreign A airs, Prime Minister’s O ce, Organization of Deputy-Director at the CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Conventions.Before she joined UNEP, she was the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah, and diplomatic Ghana. He holds a PhD and MPhil in Forestry from the
University of Aberdeen, UK. He has 33 years’ experience in Center of Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN). He research has focused on assessing the tolerance of forestry research and has held several has over 10 years of experiences on monitoring individual species to drought as well as phytoremediation management positions during this and research on Loess Plateau restoration potential of tree species on mined sites Other research areas period. His current eld of interest is under China`s Grain for Green include the study of impacts of re on farming systems and Forest Landscape Restoration for programme. Dr. Liu is experienced in socio-economic status of farmers in forest fringe climate change mitigation and soil erosion and eco-hydrological communities and on conservation e orts including adaptation. With more than 18 years’ monitoring and modeling, and conservation of endemic species and community teaching experience he currently application of remote sensing for involvement in forest landscape restoration. coordinates a postgraduate programme in Climate ecosystem observation and assessment. He focused on the Change and Integrated Natural Resources Management. relationship between landscape pattern and earth surface PROF. TERRENCE FORRESTER processes, and ecosystem services ow in the context of Dr. Foli was one of the 15 eminent scientists appointed by landscape change. He got his Ph.D on landscape ecology Prof. Forrester, who is Director of UWI SODECO, is a the UN General Assembly to draft the 2019 Global from the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Physiologist and Academic Physician Sustainable Development Report. He has made Chinese Academy of Sciences. whose research focus is broadly, direct signi cant contribution to science with about 215 biological contributions to human scienti c outputs, including 33 peer-reviewed journal MR. MAURICIO ANDRÉS VALENCIA CAMELO resilience. More recently Professor articles, 14 books, 10 manuals/Policy Briefs, 63 scienti c Forrester has been addressing reports, and about 95 conference papers. He is a member Mr. Mauricio Andrés Valencia Camelo is an Environmental translation research to enhance human of 12 International Professional Associations/ Engineer, Specialist in the Environmental resilience through environmental Committees/Boards and 24 local/national Associations/ Impact Study Projects, and Master in interventions. Current area of work is restoration and Boards/Committees. Environmental Management. Currently preservation of mangrove forests along the Jamaican coast Working as Director in CIF. Research which has embedded within interventions to enhance MS. GUOQIN WANG Experience, associated with the positive and mitigate or remove negative drivers of human formulation and direction projects, with resilience. Ms. Guoqin Wang is a Programme Manager of UNEP`s knowledge in the diagnosis and International Ecosystem Management implementation of environmental management systems, DR. MAHER J. TADROS Partnership. She has been working at aimed at nding solutions to environmental problems and this global center of UNEP on minimization of impacts as reforestation productively, Dr. Maher J. Tadros is Professor in Vegetation Ecology and South-South Cooperation as a planning the sustainable use of natural resources. Management in Departments of Natural founding member since 2010. In Resources and Environment (DNRE) and 2014-2016, she was the project DR. LUCY AMISSAH Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture, manager of GEF funded EbA South project, Jordan University of Science and responsible for this global project management in the Dr. Lucy Amissah is an Ecologist, and a Senior Research Technology. Ph.D in forestry and domain of Ecosystem-based Adaptation and South-South Scientist with the CSIR-Forestry Research natural resources, Purdue University Cooperation.Prior to this, Guoqin worked with the Institute of Ghana (FORIG). She holds a (2003), USA. MSc and BSc in plant Chinese Ecosystem Research Network as a project o cer Ph.D in Forest Ecology and Forest production (1995, 1997) University of Jordan. in 2008-2010, responsible for international cooperation Management from the Wageningen Research interest in vegetation ecology and management, activities and outreach . Guoqin holds a Masters in University, the Netherlands. Dr. Lucy conservation, drought and salinity stresses. Experience in Ecology from the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Amissah has over twenty years’ desert plants propagation. Assistant dean (2013-2018) and Academy of Sciences. experience in research and development DNRE Chairman (2006-2008). Several projects with specialization in technology in forest ecology, Environmental Impact Assessment on nationally and DR. LIU YU landscape restoration, biodiversity conservation and re internationally levels such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and management. Her research focuses on studying the Pakistan. Consultant in the IUCN, UNDP and HFJBD. Dr. Liu Yu is an Associate Professor of the Institute of impacts of disturbances on tree distribution and plant Geographical and Natural Resources Research, Chinese diversity, and how the characteristics of species in uence Academy of Sciences, and Deputy Director of the Synthesis their responses to these disturbances. In addition, her past
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DR. DINARA ABIYEVA
Dr. Dinara Abiyeva, Managing Director of GIS-Centre, JSC Opening session Prof. Terrence Forrester, Director, UWI Solutions “Institute of Geography and Water Security.” She Moderated by Dr. Linxiu Zhang, Director, for Developing Countries (UWI SODECO) has considerable experience in various UNEP-IEMP University of the West Indies. Mona Campus, elds – from education to work Jamaica experience in international level 15:00-15:05 - Welcome Remarks Ambassador Shahid Kamal, Head of CCCS Dr. Maher J Tadros, Professor in Vegetation (GEF/WB, UNDP) and national research Ecology and Management Department of Natural centers, private sector (software and 15:05-15:10 - Introductory Remarks Resources and Environment, Jordan University of environmental companies). Most of her Kerstin Stendahl, Head of Ecosystems Integration Science and Technology w o r k is devoted to geographic information systems. Branch, UNEP Dinara Abiyeva, Managing Director of GIS-Centre, Dr. Abiyeva is a Principal Investigator and a participant of 15:10-15:20 - Keynote Address JSC 'Institute of Geography and Water Security, numerous projects related to development Web-GIS Malik Amin Aslam, Minister for Climate Kazakhstan services (products, tools, and applications) that contribute Change/Special Assistant to the Prime Minister, to the implementation of new approaches to research on Ministry of Climate Change, Pakistan Dr. Rangika Bandara, Senior the green economy, water resources, mapping and Lecturer,Department of Zoology and assessment of essential areas of ecosystem services in the Session 1: Environmental Management, University of Republic of Kazakhstan. Moderated by Ambassador Shahid Kamal, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka Head of CCCS Session 3: Open discussions DR. RANGIKA BANDARA 15:20-15:30 - Best Practices & Success Stories of 16:30-16:50 Ecosystem Restoration in China Dr. Rangika Bandara is Senior Lecturer,Department of Ms. Guoqin Wang, Programme Manager, Moderated by Dr. Ernest Foli (CSIR, Ghana) & Dr. Zoology and Environmental Management, UNEP-IEMP Linxiu Zhang (UNEP-IEMP) University of Kelaniya. She earned her BSC degree in Forestry and Environment Session 2: Moderated discussions on (but not limited to): Science with rst class honors from Approaches and Actions by Global South for University of Sri Jayawardenapura in Ecosystem Restoration (8 minutes for each • Existing knowledge and good practices for 2005. She earned both of her Master of presentation) ecosystem restoration in the Global South Science degree in Forestry and 15:30-1630 Environment Science in 2008 from Louisiana • Gaps and opportunities to collaboration and State University, USA and Ph.D. in Forestry and Environment Moderated by Dr. Ernest Foli, Principal Research joint actions Science in 2011 from the same University. She was awarded Scientist, Council for Scienti c and Industrial • Way forwards Graduate Student Merit Honor Award in 2009 and in 2011 Research (CSIR), Ghana by Gamma Sigma Delta, the Honor Society of Agriculture, Dr. Yu Liu, Deputy Director, Synthesis Center of Closing Remarks Louisiana State University Chapter. She specialized in Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN), 16:50-17:00 forestry, forest products certi cation and marketing, Chinese Academy of Sciences environment management and ecotourism. Dr. Bandara is a Mr. Jamil Ahmad, Director, Intergovernmental consultant in cleaner production, eco-design and chemical Mr. Mauricio Andrés Valencia Camelo, A airs, UNEP O ce, New York leasing. At present she is serving as the symposium Environmental Engineer, International Centre for coordinator of the 4th International Research Symposium Physics (CIF), Colombia on Pure and Applied Sciences (IRSPAS – 2019) organized by the University of Kelaniya. Dr. Lucy Amissah, Senior Research Scientist, CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG)