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Program |
5 min |
Kick-off Valerie Hickey (Global Director, Climate Change, The World Bank) WBG Director sets the stage with insights and introduces the CWGC’s mission to catalyze global innovation. |
7 min |
Keynote: China’s policy innovations to mobilize the private sector Xia Yingxian (Director General, Climate Change, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China) – TO BE CONFIRMED Key themes: the strategic role of China’s policies in shaping the incentives for restoration investments in China and abroad (the role of eco-compensation, including market-based schemes, Ecologically Oriented Development in practice; the role of carbon markets (CCER)). |
7 min |
Keynote: Brazil’s restoration plan Garo Batmanian (Director General of the Brazilian Forest Service, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Brazil) Key themes: the innovative aspects of the plan; the Amazon Fund; the mechanisms to attract private sector investment for the initiative. |
7 min |
Keynote: The private sector’s role in overcoming habitat fragmentation Malu Pinto (Chief Sustainability Officer – CSO, Suzano, Brazil) Key themes: the use of innovative funding mechanisms, including Green Bonds, to support environmental projects; creating ecological corridors in the Cerrado biome to address habitat fragmentation. |
7 min |
Keynote: Innovations in mobilizing investors and financial institutions Olaf Schmidt (Director for Forestry, Latin America and the Caribbean, International Finance Corporation) Key themes: Green bond and green loan innovations; the role of taxonomies for ecosystem restoration; enabling conditions for private sector participation. |
7 min |
Keynote: Data Solutions for Scaling Ecosystem Restoration Dr. Zhai Yongping, Senior Advisor on Carbon Neutrality, Tencent, China Key themes: Carbon Neutrality commitment; high-integrity carbon credits and data solutions; designing solutions and creating the enabling conditions for market development. |
5 min |
Summary of insights and closing remarks Valerie Hickey (Global Director, Climate Change, The World Bank) |
- Overview
- Agenda
Ecosystem restoration helps unlock nature’s power to drive resilient, sustainable change for communities and the planet. By both mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and helping communities and nature adapt to climate impacts, it harnesses the power of natural processes to restore the health and resilience of ecosystems, providing a wide array of co-benefits.
Countries around the world are pioneering scalable solutions, leveraging diverse governance models and forging dynamic public-private partnerships to accelerate restoration finance. China and Brazil are actively pursuing strategies to identify solutions for financing ecosystem restoration at scale and the insights from both countries are a valuable knowledge sharing opportunity for other countries to learn from.
This knowledge event, organized by the China-World Bank Group Global Center for Ecological Systems and Transitions (the Global Center-- CWGC), discusses the innovations from China, Brazil and other countries in ecosystem restoration. It will do so through the voice of recognized public and private sector experts.
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Program |
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Kick-off Valerie Hickey (Global Director, Climate Change, The World Bank) WBG Director sets the stage with insights and introduces the CWGC’s mission to catalyze global innovation. |
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Keynote: China’s policy innovations to mobilize the private sector Xia Yingxian (Director General, Climate Change, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China) – TO BE CONFIRMED Key themes: the strategic role of China’s policies in shaping the incentives for restoration investments in China and abroad (the role of eco-compensation, including market-based schemes, Ecologically Oriented Development in practice; the role of carbon markets (CCER)). |
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Keynote: Brazil’s restoration plan Garo Batmanian (Director General of the Brazilian Forest Service, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Brazil) Key themes: the innovative aspects of the plan; the Amazon Fund; the mechanisms to attract private sector investment for the initiative. |
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Keynote: The private sector’s role in overcoming habitat fragmentation Malu Pinto (Chief Sustainability Officer – CSO, Suzano, Brazil) Key themes: the use of innovative funding mechanisms, including Green Bonds, to support environmental projects; creating ecological corridors in the Cerrado biome to address habitat fragmentation. |
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Keynote: Innovations in mobilizing investors and financial institutions Olaf Schmidt (Director for Forestry, Latin America and the Caribbean, International Finance Corporation) Key themes: Green bond and green loan innovations; the role of taxonomies for ecosystem restoration; enabling conditions for private sector participation. |
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Keynote: Data Solutions for Scaling Ecosystem Restoration Dr. Zhai Yongping, Senior Advisor on Carbon Neutrality, Tencent, China Key themes: Carbon Neutrality commitment; high-integrity carbon credits and data solutions; designing solutions and creating the enabling conditions for market development. |
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Summary of insights and closing remarks Valerie Hickey (Global Director, Climate Change, The World Bank) |
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