The 6th Global Conference
on Biodiversity Finance

Part 1: Opening Statements

• Onno van den Heuvel, UNDP Global Lead Nature Finance/BIOFIN
• Michelle Muschett, UNDP Assistant Secretary-General and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Astrid Schomaker Executive Secretary CBD (Video recording)
• Narend Singh, Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, South Africa
• Carlos Manuel Rodrigues – GEF CEO (Live video)

Part 2: Opening of the Conference

• E. Maisa Rojas, Honorable Minister of the Environment, Chile

Part 3: Keynote Speech

• Fabian Carrasco Fonseca, President of Rural Water Cooperative of Liquiñe, Los Rios Region, Chile

Opening remarks: Onno van den Heuvel, UNDP Global Lead Nature Finance/BIOFIN

 Moderator: Midori Paxton, Director, Nature Hub, UNDP

• Maisa Rojas, Honorable Minister of the Environment, Chile
• Wynter Mmolotsi, Honorable Minister Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Botswana
• Belén Loor Garcés, President of CONAFIPS Board, Ecuador
• Abdallah Mitawi, Deputy Permanent Secretary at Vice President’s Office, Tanzania

Session 1.3.1 Blended Finance for Biodiversity – Challenges and Road Ahead (Condor Room)

Session Moderator: Marco Arlaud, UNDP BIOFIN Global Deputy Manager

Part 1: Challenges

Moderator: Gaurav Gupta, UNDP Senior Advisor, Nature Investments

• Puan Norsham binti Abdul Latip, Deputy Secretary General Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability, Malaysia
• Pattarin TONGSIMA, Director of Biodiversity Policy and Strategy Group, Director of Biodiversity Management Division, Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP), Thailand

Part 2: Scaling up blended finance

Moderator: Gaurav Gupta, UNDP Senior Advisor, Nature Investments

• Richard Speak, Finance Earth, CEO
• Mattias Granqvist, UNCDF, Senior Investment Specialist
• Avril Benchimol, GEF, Senior Financial Specialist
• Gulbahar Abdurasulova, Policy Officer for Biodiversity Finance, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection

Session 1.3.2 Finance for Development and Nature (Shoebill Room)

Part 1

Moderator: Thomas Beloe, Director, Sustainable Finance Hub, UNDP

• Michelle Muschett, UNDP Assistant Secretary-General and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Douty Chibamba, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Green Economy and Environment, Zambia
• Patricia Carolina Joachín, Vice-Minister of Revenue and Fiscal Evaluation, Ministry of Public Finance, Guatemala

Part 2

Moderator: Tracey Cumming, UNDP BIOFIN Senior Technical Advisor

• Ines Verleye, Senior Biodiversity Advisor, Coordinator of the EU Multi cell, Biodiversity Service, FPS Environment, Belgium
• Ahmed Abdallah, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Egypt
• Andras Krolopp, Head of Biodiversity Policy – Europe, The Nature Conservancy

Session 1.3.3 The BIOFIN Country Journey – Part A: The road leading to the BPF (Haribon Room)

 Moderator: Ana Lucia, UNDP BIOFIN Environmental Finance Specialist for Latin America and the Caribbean

• Herve Barois, UNDP BIOFIN Global Technical Advisor for Africa
• Leng Fei, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, China
• Pamela Noelia Kruszelnicki, Director of Finance, Director of Financial Management, Misiones, Argentina
• Hassan Hamad, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Zanzibar

Moderator: Bruno Mweemba, UNDP BIOFIN Senior Technical Advisor for Africa

Part 1: High-level remarks

• WANG Xin, People’s Bank of China (PBOC), Policy and Research Department, Director General and Co-chair of the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group

Part 2: Panel discussion

Moderator: Eva Bortolotti, Programme Specialist on Nature Finance, UNDP

• Raja Syamsul Anwar, Sustainability Director, Central Bank of Malaysia
• Patricia Mata Solís, Director of Public Offering, Superintendency of Securities (SUGEVAL)
• Alan Gómez, Market Engagement Lead for LAC, TNFD
• Mauricio Gámez, Executive Director, Sustainability & Investor Relations, Grupo Financiero Banorte
• Mutumboi Mundia, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Prospero Limited, Vice Chairperson of Zambia’s Capital Markets Master Plan Steering Committee

 Part 3: “Meet the Experts” Table discussions

Moderator: Annabelle Trinidad, UNDP BIOFIN Global Senior Technical Advisor for Asia

• Ashok Gulati, Distinguished professor, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), India
• Will Symes, Acting Head of Unit, Fisheries and Aquaculture OECD
• Adriana Pachón, Professional from the Sustainability Area FINAGRO, Colombia

Session 3.2.1 Can bioeconomy be positive for nature finance? (Condor Room)

 Moderator: Marco Arlaud, UNDP BIOFIN Global Deputy Manager, and Ana Lucia Orozco, UNDP BIOFIN Environmental Finance Specialist for Latin America and the Caribbean

• Gabriela Guarda, Environmental Sustainability Manager, Nestlé
• Gilson Bittencourt, Deputy Secretary for Agricultural Policy and Agro-Environmental Businesses, Secretariat of Economic Policies, Brazil
• Natalia Meza Ramirez, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Costa Rica
• Ramitha Wijethunga, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Sri Lanka

Session 3.2.2 Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) and DSI (Shoebill Room)

Moderator: Ainur Shalakhanova, UNDP BIOFIN Global Environmental Finance Analyst for Asia, Annabelle Trinidad, UNDP BIOFIN Global Senior Technical Advisor for Asia 

• • Santiago Carrizosa, Senior Technical Advisor ABS/DSI, UNDP
  • Ida Hellmark, Senior Advisor, NORAD, Norway
  • Badrinarayanan Balaji, Secretary at the National Biodiversity Authority, India

Session 3.2.3 Win-win-win: Climate, nature, and gender positive finance solutions (Haribon Room)

 Moderator: Jasmin Blessing, UNDP BIOFIN Gender Equality Expert

• Lyes Ferroukhi, UNDP Regional Team Leader, Nature Climate and Energy in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Lucretia Landmann, Senior Policy Adviser at Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), Switzerland, Switzerland
• Niran Nirannoot, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Thailand
• Carola Moreno, Coordinator for International Affairs and Finance, Ministry of Finance, Chile
• Silvia Llamas, Head of the Unit for International Affairs and Financial Promotion, Forestry Commission, Mexico

Session 3.2.4 The BIOFIN Country Journey – Part B: Designing and implementing the BFP (Saker Room)

 Moderator: Tracey Cumming, UNDP BIOFIN Global Senior Technical Advisor for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Daniel Lin, UNDP BIOFIN Global Project Result Analyst

• Ahmed Ahmed Abdelmaksoud, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Egypt
• Kebaabetswe Keoagile, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Botswana
• Arturo Mora, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Ecuador

Session 3.3.1 Demystifying nature credits (Condor Room)

Moderator: Aurora Audino, UNDP BIOFIN Global Fellow

• Manesh Lacoul, UNDP Global Coordinator, Biodiversity Credits Alliance (BCA)
• Aurelia Blin, Senior Manager, UNEP FI, Revenues for Nature
• Bayuni Shantiko, BIOFIN National Coordinator for Indonesia
• Nokutula Mhene, BIOFIN National Coordinator, South Africa
• Victor Caro, Ministry of Environment, Chile
• Vanessa Callau, Biodiversity Specialist, IDB

Session 3.3.2 Diving Deep into Ocean Finance (Shoebill Room)

Moderator: Andrew Seidl, UNDP BIOFIN Global Senior Technical Advisor, Ainur Shalakhanova, UNDP BIOFIN Global Environmental Finance Analyst for Asia

• David Meyers, Executive Director, Conservation Finance Alliance
• Brad Auer, Senior Program Specialist, GFCR
• Mohseen Dean, Innovation Specialist – Head of Solutions Mapping, UNDP Fiji
• Dr Makame, Director of the Department of Marine Conservation, Zanzibar
• Hoang Thu Thuy, UNDP Natural Resources & Biodiversity Programme Analyst, Vietnam
• Arturo Mora, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Ecuador

Session 3.3.3 Scaling up resource mobilization through the GEF and GBFF (Haribon Room)

 Moderator: Mariana Bellot, UNDP BIOFIN, Senior Technical Advisor

• Markus Lehmann, Senior Programme Management Officer, CBD Secretariat
• Jurgis Sapijanskas, Senior Program Officer, Head of Economic Policy Unit, CBD
• Representative from the Government of the Philippines
• Kebaabetswe Keoagile, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Botswana

Session 3.3.4 Biodiversity finance: Can the future be local? (Saker Room)

•  Anabelle Plantilla, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Philippines
• Fernando Garcia, UNDP Program Officer, Energy and Environment Officer, Guatemala.
• Niran Niranoot, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Thailand
• Bijendra Basnyat, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Nepal
• Fernando Camacho Rico, UNDP Energy and Resilience Officer, Mexico
• Felister Ignatus, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Tanzania

• Moderator: Mahtab Haider, UNDP BIOFIN Global Communications Lead 
  • Magdalena Ulloa National Geographic Explorer, Photographer
  • Ida Hellmark, Senior Advisor, Norad, Norway