Event ID :75 Title: Mainstreaming the MAB Programme in Climate Action and Nature Positive: Japan's Contribution

This event aims to share Japan's 50 years engagement in the MAB Programme which is based on robust and unique multistakeholder national network and longstanding international cooperation to fully meet the changing needs on and unchanged mission of the MAB Programme, with focusing on strengthening a synergy between climate action and nature-positive action.

Language: English without interpretation

Keywords: networking and partnership, MAB national committee, youth, intersectoral collaboration, participatory science

Preliminary Agenda
TimeContentSpeaker
13:15Opening RemarksDr Tsunao Watanabe, Chairperson, Japanese MAB National Committee Moderator: Takaaki Iwasa, Japanese National Commission for UNESCO
13:30Panel Discussion 1  From Lima to Hangzhou – Japan's engagement-

●Dr. Miguel Clüsener-Godt, University of Coimbra, Portugal 

● Ms. Ichika Inaba, Japan Committee for IUCN (IUCN-J) 

●Mr. Kyle Kobayashi, Graduate Student, Kyushu University / The Japanese Coordinating Committee for MAB 

●Mr. Cheok Lay Leng, General Manager of Penang Hill Cooperation         

●Dr. Aida Mammadova, Associate Professor, Kanazawa University  

●Prof. Hiroyuki Matsuda, Yokohama National University 

●Ms. Kokone Nakamura, Graduate Student, Yokohama National University / Trainee, UNESCO MAB Secretariat

●Takeharu Shumiya, Chairman /The Japanese Coordinating Committee for MAB

14:10Panel Discussion 2  Japan's future contribution to the Hangzhou Strategic Action PlanSame as Panel Discussion 1
14:40Wrap-up