The 6th Global Conference
on Biodiversity Finance

Moderator: Georgiana Braga, UNDP Resident Representative, Chile  

​​​Part 1: Opening Statements  

• Michelle Muschett, UNDP Assistant Secretary-General and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean  
• Carlos Manuel Rodríguez – GEF CEO (Live video)  
• Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary, CBD (Video recording)  
• Narend Singh, Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, South Africa 

 Part 2: Opening of the Conference  

• H.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

• Wynter Mmolotsi, Honorable Minister, Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Botswana
• Maisa Rojas, Honorable Minister of the Environment, Chile
• Maria Belén Loor Iturralde, President of CONAFIPS Board, Ecuador

(Lunch will be served at the tent area next to the CID Restaurant, located on the ground floor) 

 **High Level Lunch, at Quijote Room** 

Session 1.3.1 Finance for Development and Nature (Condor Room) 

Session Moderator: Onno van den Heuvel, UNDP Global Lead Nature Finance/BIOFIN

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 
• Nicholas Kabaso, Chief Executive Officer, Lusaka Securities Exchange, 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 1.3.2 Blended Finance for Biodiversity – Challenges and Road Ahead (Shoebill 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  
• Mrs. 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, Senior Structuring Specialist, UNCDF
• Avril Benchimol, Senior Specialist, Blended Finance Coordinator, GEF
• Gulbahar Abdurasulova, Policy Officer for Biodiversity Finance, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection 

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 
• Diego Olarte, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Colombia 
• Hassan Hamad, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Zanzibar 
• Pamela Noelia Kruszelnicki, Director of Finance, Director of Financial Management, Misiones, Argentina 

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

Part 1: High-level remarks 

• Mr. WANG Xin, People’s Bank of China (PBOC), Director General, Policy and Research Department, 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, Ban Negara Malaysia (Central Bank of Malaysia) 
• Alan Gómez, Market Engagement Lead for LAC, TNFD    
• Mauricio Gámez, Deputy Director of Climate Change and Nature, Grupo Financiero Banorte, Mexico 
• Patricia Mata Solís, Director of Public Offering, Superintendency of Securities (SUGEVAL) 

 Part 3: Table discussions 

 Part 4: Launch of nature risk reports and insurance for nature guidance

(Tent area next to the CID Restaurant located on the ground floor)

Country-to-country walking discussions

Discover countries’ latest results in a marketplace

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

• Dr. Ashok Gulati, Distinguished Professor, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), India
• Dr. 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
• Martha Pybus, Senior Associate, Finance Earth
• 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
  • Shri Raghu Kumar Kodali, Scientist G/Adviser, CS-III (Biodiversity) Division, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of 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 Caribbean
• Lucretia Landmann, Senior Policy Adviser at Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), 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 Abdallah, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Egypt
• Adianez Taboada, Vice Minister of Science, Technology, and Environment, Ministry of Environment and Technology, Cuba
• Kebaabetswe Keoagile, UNDP BIOFIN National Coordinator, Botswana

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)
• Vanessa Callau, Biodiversity Specialist, IDB
• 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

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

• 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
• Alonso Martínez, UNDP BIOFIN Global

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

Moderator: Annabelle Trinidad, UNDP BIOFIN Global Senior Technical Advisor for Asia, and Ana Lucía Orozco, UNDP BIOFIN Environmental Finance Specialist for LAC

• 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
• Ian Herbert, Univ of Otago, New Zealand BIOFIN independent Assessment
• 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

(Tent area next to the CID Restaurant located on the ground floor)