NY Climate Week 2025
Leveraging 30x30 to Protect Oceans, Forests, and Indigenous and Local Community Territories from Extractive Industries
NY Climate Week Event 2025
This event is designed to support greater cohesion for advancing efforts to support the success of Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Some themes for exploration during these interactive sessions will include securing needed financing, removing fossil fuel and industrial concessions overlapping with vital ecosystems and IP&LC territories, advocacy strategies, global narratives, and more. Participants will explore movement gaps and needs, policy intervention opportunities and other strategies that require urgent coordination, investment and scaling.
In two sequential sessions covering marine and terrestrial zones, we are convening Indigenous people’s leaders, experts, policymakers and advocates to support greater cohesion to advance scientific, conservation, advocacy, finance, legal, policy, and frontline strategies for achieving GBF Target 3.
6:30pm discussion ends, with reception to follow
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Due to limited capacity, the event is invite-only. You are warmly invited to register and join the waiting list. The organizers will confirm your participation in a follow-up email with additional information about the event. Please note that we are limiting attendance to 2 people per organization. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to reviewing your application.
Location: Jay Suites Paris Room, 109 W 39th St, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10018
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Speakers
*Full speaker lineup coming soon.
Spanish and Portuguese translation will be provided.
Opening the panels: Tyson Miller, Executive Director, Earth Insight
Panel I (Protection of Oceans)
o Moderator: Florencia Librizzi, Program Director, Earth Insight
o Frontline Community Perspective: Daniela Gonzalez, Community and Operations Manager, Quantum Leap (Fossil Free Caribbean)
o Implementation Needs & Financial Solutions: Adrian Gahan, Ocean Policy Lead, Campaign for Nature
o Philanthropic Perspective: Jean Flemma, Director of Ocean Climate Diplomacy Initiative, Oceans 5
o Protected Area Perspective: Dr. Sarah Hameed, Blue Parks Director and Senior Scientist, Marine Conservation Institute
o Policy Perspective: Rita Maria El Zaghloul, Director of the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People Secretariat, High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People
Panel II (Protection of Forests)
o Moderator: Juan Pablo Osornio, Engagement Director, Earth Insight
o Indigenous Perspective: Basiru Isa, Secretary General, REPALEAC
o Financial Solutions: Alice Jay, Director of International Relations, Campaign for Nature
o Philanthropic Perspective: Andrea Johnson, Initiative Lead, CLUA
o Protected Area Perspective: Alfred DeGemmis, Vice Chair for World Heritage, IUCN WCPA
o Frontline Community Perspective: Harrison Nnoko, Executive President, AJESH
o Policy Perspective: Jiwoh Abdulai, Minister of Environment and Climate Change of Sierra Leone
Welcome to the Reception: Astrid Shomaker, Executive Secretary of the CBD Secretariat, UNEP
Event Organizers:
Earth Insight, Oceans 5, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Key Biodiversity Areas Secretariat, Campaign for Nature, Climate and Land Use Alliance, Rainforest Foundation Norway, and International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity, Global Alliance of Territorial Communities.
Agenda
Participant Arrival
Session 1 – Protection of Oceans
· 2:00 – 2:15 Welcome & Opening Plenary
· 2:15 – 2:50 Plenary Contributions
· 2:50 – 3:40 Breakout Discussions & Report Back
· 3:40 – 3:55 Synthesizing
3:55 – 4:00 Closing Notes
Break
Session 2 – Protection of Forests
· 4:30 – 4:40 Welcome & Opening Plenary
· 4:40 – 5:10 Plenary Contributions
· 5:10 – 6:00 Breakout Discussions & Report Back
· 6:00 – 6:15 Synthesizing
· 6:15 – 6:20 Closing Notes
Welcome to the Reception – Astrid Shomaker, Executive Secretary of CBD, UNEP
Reception
Recording
