High-level lunch event: Getting to One Billion: Scaling up Land Restoration Initiatives

Date: Saturday, 2 December 2023
Time: 12:00-13:30 h local time UAE (UTC +4)
Location:
Online: YouTube.com/@g20landinitiative
In-person: Land & Drought Resilience Pavilion, Blue Zone, Opportunity Petal, Thematic Arena 4, 1st floor, Stand 205
Date: Saturday, 2 December 2023

The loss of productive land is a slow, steady and invisible process. At the current pace of land degradation, the international community will need to restore at least 1.5 billion hectares of land by 2030. Restoring more land than is degraded requires a large scale approach. This High-Level event brings countries, organizations and experts together to share policies that promote the best practices and encourage large-scale restoration efforts, in particular.

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Welcoming Remarks

Dr Muralee Thummarukudy

Director, G20 Global Land Initiative

 

Ministerial Segment

H.E. Bat-Erdene Bat-Ulzii

Minister of Environment and Tourism, Mongolia

H.E. Frank Tumwebaze

Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Uganda

Mr. Sang-seop Lim

Deputy Minister, Korea Forest Service, Republic of Korea

Ms. Jenovive Chinyere

Great Green Wall Ambassador, Senegal

 

Expert Segment

Mr. Plato K.T. Yip

Vice Chairman, Elion International Investment Limited

Ms. Akanksha Khatri

Head of Nature and Biodiversity, World Economic Forum

Mr. Charles Ehrhart

Global Solution Lead on Climate Change, Decarbonisation & Nature; and Global Head of Climate Risk,…

Ms. Rebekah Shirley

Deputy Director for Africa, World Resources Institute

 

This high-level event will be moderated by

Angela Churie-Kallhauge

Executive Vice President, Impact (Environment Defense Fund)