Event ID: 64 Title: Reconciling human development and biodiversity protection: illustration of a French-Chinese-European cooperation for inclusive and sustainable governance of protected areas
The preservation of biodiversity, including support for the reform of the national system of protected areas in China, is an important element of the bilateral cooperation policy between China and France.
As part of its intervention strategy in China, the French Development Agency (AFD) contributes to the improvement of public policiesfor biodiversity conservation, disseminate European, French and Chinese best practices and enhance bilateral and international cooperation towards the overall achievement of the objectives of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
AFD organizes this side-event to share the main results of the past and on-going scientific cooperations regarding the conservation and sustainable management of protected territories on three specific areas: i) the governance of protected areas; ii) the connectivity of protected areas and iii) the involvement of local communities in the management of protected areas.
| Preliminary Agenda | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Content | Speaker |
| 13:15 – 13:20 | Opening | Mrs. Amélie Aubert, Director for China and Mongolia, AFD |
| 13:20 – 13:25 | Opening | NFGA (name tbc) |
| 13:25 – 13:30 | Opening | Mr. Antonio Abreu, Director of the Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences in the Natural Sciences Sector of UNESCO and Secretary of the MAB Programme |
| 13:30 – 13 :35 | Key-note: Setting the scene | Mrs. Pauline Teillac-Deschamps, Task Team Leader on biodiversity, AFD |
| Governance of national parks | ||
| 13:35 – 13:45 | Diversity and specificities of French national parks – category 1 protected areas? | Marie Hascoët, French Biodiversity Agency (OFB) |
| 13:45 – 13:55 | Inclusive Governance of National Parks: Comparative Insights from China and France | Dr Wei Yu - CASISD |
| Role of local people in the governance of PA – application of Other Effective Conservation Measures (OECM) | ||
| 13:55 – 14:05 | OECMs: Unlocking complementary pathways to biodiversity conservation within and beyond Biosphere Reserves | Mr. ZHANG Yan, Head of IUCN China Office |
| 14:05 – 14:15 | OECM Potential in China and A Comparative Look at Europe | Ms. WEI Chunyue, Project Coordinator, Shan Shui Conservation Center |
| Importance of ecological connectivity between protected areas | ||
| 14:15 – 14:25 | Dialogue on Ecological Connectivity: Experiences from French Protected Areas | Ms. Emmanuelle Sarat, Project Manager, NatureXpairs (recorded video) |
| 14:25 - 14:35 | Chinese regulation and state of the art on ecological connectivity in China | Ms. ZHAO Zhicong, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, and researcher at the Institute for National Parks, Tsinghua University |
| Discussion | ||
| 14:35 – 14:45 | What types of international and bilateral cooperations would you consider as the most relevant to conciliate human development and biodiversity protection? | Moderator: AFD NFGA OFB |
