TROPICAL FOREST ALLIANCE 2020
Second General Assembly 21 – 22 March 2017
Royal Tulip Brasilia Alvorada Brazil
International Forest Day, 21 March 2017
09:00 - 11:00 OPENING PLENARY (Plenary Room)
- Welcome
Marco Albani, Director, TFA 2020 Secretariat
- Opening Keynotes
HE Sarney Filho, Minister of Environment, Brazil
HE Henri Djombo, Minister of Agriculture, Republic of Congo
- Panel Discussion: Partnering for deforestation free commodities in Latin America
Mauricio Antonio Lopes, President, Embrapa
Marcelo Vieira, President, Sociedade Rural Brasileira
Leonardo Fleck, Biologist, Administrator, and Economist, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation Marcelo Furtado, Executive Director, Instituto Arapyau (Brazilian Coalition on Climate, Forests and Agriculture)
Mark Murphy, Global Head for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Corporate Affairs Vice President, Cargill
Juliana Santiago, Head of Department, Amazon Fund, BNDES
Moderator: Isabella Freire Vitali, Country Director, Proforest
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK (foyer)
Innovative Solutions: Tech & Art for Nature: Presenting SustainaDrone
11:30 - 13:00 KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE BREAKOUTS
Role of Government in deforestation-free production NICFI (Room A) |
Power of Women and Indigenous Peoples to achieve better growth with forests UNDP (Room B) |
Forest risk in supply chains - a dialogue on how to practically manage risks Rainforest Alliance (Room C) |
13:00 - 14:00 NETWORKING LUNCH (Foyer)
13:00 – 13:30 Innovative Solutions: TRASE in Brazil; transparency for deforestation-free economy
13:30 – 13:40 Innovative Solutions: Latin America through Global Forest Watch
14:00 - 15:30 KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE BREAKOUTS
Beyond the Buzz: Designing an effective jurisdictional approach to address deforestation WWF (Room A) |
Smallholders Engagement in Deforestation-Free Value Chains
IDH (Room B) |
Implementation of deforestation-free commitments by the private sector – what is the status and how can it be accelerated? TNC (Room C) |
15:30 - 16:00 REFLECTION KEY NOTES
HE Vidar Helgesen, Minister of Climate and Environment, Norway
Pedro Taques, Governor of Mato Grosso, Brazil
16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK (Foyer)
16:00 – 16:30 Innovative Solutions: Rainforest Connection
16:30 - 18:00 CLOSING PLENARY (Plenary Room)
- Panel Discussion: Supporting jurisdictional leadership in net zero deforestation through sustainable value chains
Justiniano Netto, Secretary of Green Municipalities Program of Pará Justin Adams, Global Managing Director Lands, The Nature Conservancy Nurdiana Darus, Southeast Asia Director, Rainforest Alliance
Leonardo Lima, Director of Corporate Sustainability, McDonald’s Latin America
Prof. Daddy Ruhyat, Chairman of the Provincial Climate Change Council (DDPI) of East Kalimantan and a professor in forest soils at the Forestry Faculty of Mulawarman University, Indonesia Moderator: Kavita Prakash-Mani, Practice Leader, Markets, WWF International
- Meeting Close
Lexine Hansen, Senior Advisor, USAID & Chairperson, TFA 2020
18:00 COCKTAIL RECEPTION (Foyer)
18:00 – 18:30 Innovative Solutions: Land Use Change Monitoring Within Production Landscapes
18:30 – 19:00 Innovative Solutions: The BigChain Tool