Lining up policy solutions for climate risks and biodiversity loss.

Solving the Rubik's cube of the planetary crisis: lining up policy solutions for climate risks and biodiversity loss.




The round table will focus on the importance of strengthening preparedness to climate extremes through multi-hazard early warning systems, and on holistic policies that simultaneously address both the biodiversity and climate crises.

Moderators:
  •  Co-chairs of the UN Issued-based Coalition on Environment and Climate Change for Europe and Central Asia:Marco Keiner, Director of Environment Division, UNECE
  • Arnold Kreilhuber, Director of Europe Office, UNEP
  • Magdalena Landry, Director, UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe


  • Prof. Celeste Saulo, Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization
  • H.E. Sharaf Sheralizoda, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva
  • Mihaela Frasineanu, State Counsellor, Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Romania
  • Senad Tutić, Director of the Center for Social Welfare, City of Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Blaž Lipovšek, President of the Sava Youth Parliament


  • Prof. Thomas Crowther, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Chair of the Advisory Council for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and founder of Restor
  • Verónica Tomei, Commissioner for Sustainable Development, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, Germany
  • Teodora Grncarovska, State Counsellor on Climate Change, Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, North Macedonia, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, South East European University
  • Dan Cronan, Assistant Professor, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York
  • Alexandra Masako Goossens-Ishii, Soka Gakkai International

Concluding remarks and closing


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