Nature’s Place in the Race is a series of live events featuring dialogues from across the full nature based solutions spectrum. Join us to explore the role nature can play in building resilience and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

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https://tnc.zoom.us/j/93782358518

Meeting ID: 937 8235 8518

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Listening to the Earth: 15 minutes of Guided Meditation

11:45AM GMT // 6:45AM EST

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Nature’s Place in the Race: Opening Session

SESSION 1 – 12PM GMT // 7AM EST

Our understanding of nature’s role in the fight against climate change, as well as the full range of benefits that nature-based solutions deliver for people around the world is now commonly accepted. To build on this momentum, the Nature’s Place in the Race opening session will encourage dialogues from across the full nature-based solutions spectrum, setting the scene for a day dedicated to the pivotal role of nature in the Race to Zero.

Speakers include:

• Stewart Maginnis, Global Director for Nature-Based Solutions, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
• Carolina Schmidt, COP25 President and Chile’s Environment Minister
• Lord Goldsmith, UK Minister for the Pacific and the Environment
• Musonda Mumba, Chief, UNEP Terrestrial Ecosystems Unit
• Sunny Verghese, WBCSD Chair, Co-Founder and Group CEO of Olam International Ltd.
• Marcelo Behar, Vice President of Sustainability and Corporate Affairs, Natura & Co
• Mina Setra, Deputy Secretary of AMAN
• Elizabeth Wathuti, Founder of Green Generation Initiative, Kenya
• Binbin Wang, Program Director at Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University
• Sagarika Chatterjee, UN Principles on Responsible Investment & Vivid Economics

This event is led by Nature4Climate, IUCN and Business for Nature.

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INTERLUDE: Live Folk Music

Uncle Tom’s Cobbleys are a musical duo from rural Hampshire in the UK who play upbeat interpretations of popular Rock/Pop/Ska/Folk/Country/Punk/Metal tunes using just an acoustic guitar, a fiddle or a banjo. You can normally find them entertaining the locals at the pub or more recently online on www.facebook.com/cobbleys

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Nature’s Place in the Race: Collective Action for Forest-Positive Commodity Supply Chains

SESSION 2 – 1:15PM GMT // 8:15AM EST

In 2020 – the critical year for forests – this session brings together leading private sector and civil society voices to mobilize forest positive action in the Race to Zero, take stock of progress made in reducing commodity-driven deforestation, and demonstrate how the forests and commodities community is moving from incremental individual action to transformational collective action.

Speakers include:

• Moderator: Justin Adams, Executive Director, Tropical Forest Alliance and Co-Director of the World Economic Forum's Platform for Nature Based Solutions
• Crystal Davis, Director, Global Forest Watch
• Toby Gardner, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute, Co-Head TRASE
• Chris McGrath, Vice President and Chief of Global Impact, Sustainability, and Well-being, Mondelēz International
• Cristianne Close, Global Practice Leader Markets, WWF
• Perpetua “Pep” George, Group Sustainability, Wilmar International
• Gita Syahrani, Head of Secretariat, Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari (LTKL)
• Nurdiana “Ade” Darus, Head of Corporate Affairs and Sustainability, Unilever

This event is led by the Tropical Forest Alliance / World Economic Forum.

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INTERLUDE: Nature bathing

A moment of mindful connection to the earth . Bathe in the visual and audio power of nature with this beautiful short restorative film from the Listening to the Earth team, prepared in partnership with InvitEarth & Check-in Films / Studio 31 dB,

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Nature’s Place in the Race: Landscapes in Action

SESSION 3 – 2:30PM GMT // 9:30AM EST

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The session will bring together high-level government, civil society and private sector voices to outline concrete, ambitious actions for forests, as the most mature nature-based solution, on the road to Glasgow and explore systemic solutions on the supply and demand sides of high-quality emission reductions from forests. The event will also launch latest research by UNEP-WCMC on the carbon potential of achieving biodiversity targets for conservation.

Speakers include:

• Inger Andersen, UNEP
• Val Kapos, UNEP-WCMC
• Zac Goldsmith, Defra UK
• Vicky Tauli Corpuz, Tebtebba
• Yugratna Srivastava UNMGCY, UNEP Youth representative
• Frances Seymour, WRI
• Sveinung Rotevatn, Norway
• Andrea Meza, Costa Rica
• Mark Davis, Natura & Co
• Gonzalo Munoz, High Level Climate Action Champion
• Mario Boccucci, UN-REDD Programme

This event is led by UN-REDD.

INTERLUDE: The Nature of Nature

Book reading with Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer in Residence

Dive into topics from his new book The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild. https://www.enricsala.com/

Nature’s Place in the Race: The Business Case

SESSION 4 – 3:45PM GMT // 10:45AM EST

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This event will present the case of private sector actors leading in the implementation of forest related NbS to achieve Paris Agreement goals. It will showcase private sector’s contributions to tackling climate mitigation and adaptation through NbS and ecosystem-base approaches, demonstrating the feasibility and business case for nature and climate protection.

Speakers include:

• Paul Simpson, CEO, CDP
• Eric Soubeiran, Vice-President Nature & Water Cycle, Danone
• Mark Kenber, Managing Director, Orbitas
• Keyvan Macedo, Sustainability Director, Natura
• Crystal Davis, Director, Global Forest Watch, WRI

This session is led by CDP.

INTERLUDE: Nature as Art

Dr Cécile Girardin is an internationally leading scientist on Nature Based Solutions but is also an artist. Cécile has produced murals, animations, and a wide range of professional illustrations for UN Biodiversity, iied, Oxford University Press, Global Canopy Programme, and Sumatran Orangutan Society, and Oxford University, to name a few. http://www.cecilegirardin.com

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Nature’s Place in the Race: A Regenerative and Circular Economy

SESSION 5 – 5PM GMT // 12PM EST

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This session will discuss the role of business actors in promoting regenerative and circular practices. We ground ourselves in the current capacity and constraints of nature-based solutions before hearing from four different levels of business actors to understand how young entrepreneurs and small businesses can help ratchet up state-level ambition.

Speakers include:

• Alexis McGivern (moderator)
• Cecile Girardin, University of Oxford
• Natalie Sluggett, Pukka Herbs
• Juan Jose Freijo, Brambles
• Pipo Reiser, Sinba
• Dawn Musil, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
• Charmian Love, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

This session is led by Oxford University.

INTERLUDE: Imagine for 1 Minute

If not us then who reached out across its film network and ask Indigenous and local communities to #ImagineFor1Minute what a better future looks like.

https://ifnotusthenwho.me/playlists/indigenous-and-local-communities-imaginefor1minute-what-a-better-future-looks-like/

Nature’s Place in the Race Closing Session: A Call to Action

SESSION 6 – 6:15PM GMT // 1:15PM EST

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We will celebrate the critical role non-state actors have played in elevating the importance of nature in both adaptation and mitigation ambition, and to scale specific nature-based solutions. A 'Call To Action' will be presented which delineates specific acts we each must do by COP26 to realize the systemic change promised by nature-based solutions.

Speakers include:

• Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, WWF
• Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, AFPAT
• Veronica Arias, CC35
• Paloma Costa, UNSG Youth Advocacy Group on Climate Change, Brazil
• Nathalie Seddon, Nature-based Solutions Initiative, Oxford University
• Gonzalo Munoz and Nigel Topping

This session is led by WWF.

CLOSING: One World

Screening peace and environmental activist Satish Kumar's declaration of his love to Mother Earth .

Originally aired on OneHome to celebrate World Environment Day.

Astronauts in orbit have experienced a profound love for the Earth and felt that we all share one home. It is called the Overview Effect and it changed them forever. Using unique Earth images taken from one million miles away by NASA, One Home's mission is to bring the overview effect to millions of people. https://www.onehome.org/

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