Live: 1st Farming Biodiversity Summit

Agenda

Thursday, May 27 | 10:00 – 13:00 WEST | 11:00 – 14:00 CET | Santarém, Portugal & online
Translation: Português & English

10:00 WEST / 11:00 CET: Welcoming words

• Eduardo Oliveira e Sousa, President, CAP
• Thierry de l’Escaille, Secretary General, European Landowners’ Organization

10:10 WEST / 11:10 CET: Opening remarks
• António Guterres, UN Secretary General
• Maciej Golubiewski, Head of Cabinet of EU Commissioner for Agriculture

10:25 WEST / 11:25 CET: Session 1: Agriculture & biodiversity: challenges and opportunities to deploy systemic solutions

• Xavier Le Roux, Senior Scientist – INRAE, Member of the Academy of Europe, author of the French reporting for IPBES (the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services)

10:40 WEST / 11:40 CET: Session 2: How the EU can contribute to support the global biodiversity goals

Keynote speaker
• Maria do Céu Antunes, Minister of Agriculture, Portuguese Republic

Speakers
• Franz Fischler, former EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries & Former President of the European Forum Alpbach
• Herbert Dorfmann, member of the European Parliament
• Janez Potočnik, FFA2021 Chairman, RISE Foundation Chairman

Moderator: Luís Mira, CAP Secretary General

11:40 WEST / 12:40 CET: Session 3: Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and the CAP: two strategies serving a single goal?

Keynote speaker
• Humberto Delgado Rosa, Director, Natural Capital, DG for Environment, European Commission

Speakers
• Arnold Puech d’Alissac, Board member, FNSEA
• Géraldine Kutas, Director General, CropLife Europe
• Luc Bas, Director, IUCN European Regional Office
• Mark Titterington, Senior Adviser, Strategy & Partnerships, Forum for the Future of Agriculture; AgriLife project

Moderator: Jurgen Tack, ELO Scientific Director

Conclusions: Alvaro Amaro, member of the European Parliament, President of the “Biodiversity, Hunting, Countryside” Intergroup

12:40 WEST / 13:40 CET: Closing remarks

Speaker
• Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of the Republic of Portugal

Thursday, May 27 | 13:30 – 14:30 WEST | 14:30 – 15:30 CET | Online
Translation: The webinar will be hosted in English but you can listen to a Portuguese translation. For more details click here to view translation instructions.

13:30 WEST / 14:30 CET: Welcome

• Martin Fox, ELO Communication Project Officer

13:35 WEST / 14:35 CET: Participant voices
• Martin Fox, ELO Communication Project Officer

13:40 WEST / 14:40 CET: ELO Project Insights

• Martin Fox, ELO Communication Project Officer

13:55 WEST / 14:55 CET: Interactive round-table discussion

A transdisciplinary approach at solving the biodiversity crisis
• Cosette Khawaja, BIOPLAT-EU
• Dr. Salvador Lladó Fernández, SOILGUARD
• Prof. J. J. Leahy, BioWILL/REFLOW
• Dr. Martin Hartmann, MICROSERVICES
• Dr. Gerald Schwarz, UNISECO
• Prof. Dr. Ingold Steffan-Dewenter, SAFEGUARD
• Prof. Davide Viaggi, CONSOLE

• Moderator: Martin Fox, ELO Communication Project Officer

14:25 WEST / 15:25 CET: Closing remarks