Program
March 2, 2023 At the Presidential Palace, Libreville, Gabon
Summit of Heads of State and Government at the invitation of Presidents H.E Ali Bongo Ondimba and H.E Emmanuel Macron.
The program will be announced soon...
Types of events:
Leaders’ segment, open to heads of state and government and select participants
Side Events, organised by third parties, open to all participants
Closed Events, invite only
1st march 2023
9:00-9:30
Ouverture du sommet
- Panéliste: Jean Luc Mernier
- Lieu: Radisson
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9:00-9:30
Ouverture du sommet
- Panéliste: Jean Luc Mernier
- Lieu: Radisson
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9:00-9:30
Ouverture du sommet
- Panéliste: Jean Luc Mernier
- Lieu: Radisson
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9:00-9:30
Ouverture du sommet
- Panéliste: Jean Luc Mernier
- Lieu: Radisson
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March 1
Ministerial, civil society and expert level day
Radisson Blu Hotel
Room Moabi
Room Libreville 1
Room Libreville 2
Room Okoumé
Room Ebène
09:30 – 10:00am
Introductory Session by
Ministers Lee White and
Chrysoula Zacharopoulou
UNLOCKING INNOVATIVE
SOURCES OF FINANCING
FOSTERING SUSTAINABLE
VALUE CHAINS
PROMOTING SCIENTIFIC
COOPERATION ON
RAINFORESTS
10:15 – 11:45am
Making market-based
instruments deliver for
climate, nature and people
Report on innovative finance
mechanisms led by the GEF
10:15 – 11:45am
The sustainable exploitation
of forests and the valorisation
of wood products
Sustainable forest management,
wood for construction and
energy
10:15 – 11:45am
One Forest Vision
Part 1 – Advances in forest
monitoring
Key issues for rainforests: new
approaches for observation,
monitoring and data
management
12:00 – 1:30pm
A coalition of champions to
scale-up high environmental
value carbon credits
12:00 – 1:30pm
Workshop on agroforestry
and living income for
producers
Example of the cocoa and
coffee industry
12:00 – 1:30pm
One Forest Vision
Part 2 – Governance,
partnership, training,
research needs for a fair data
platform
12:00 – 1:30pm
Coalition for the Congo
Basin
Corporate coalition to support
conservation work in the Congo
Basin
(organised by WWF)
12:00 – 1:30pm
Strategic Orientation
Committee of the International
Coalition on “Biodiversity
corridors in Africa”
(organised by Climate Chance)
1:30 – 3:00pm
Lunch Break
Ministerial Lunch
COP15 Follow up: Implementing the Kunming-Montreal
Global Biodiversity Framework
Radisson Blu Restaurant
3:00 – 4:30pm
Leveraging innovative
finance mechanisms for
nature
Debt-for-nature swaps, forest
bonds, payment for ecosystem
services, biodiversity certificates,
etc.
3:00 – 4:30pm
Workshop on traceability, the
key to sustainability
Tools for traceability and
challenges of European regulation
3:00 – 4:30pm
Umbrella species of tropical
forests and their link with the
natural and cultural heritage
of humanity
3:00 – 4:30pm
Ecological connectivity and
compensation: an
opportunity to recover
biodiversity?
(organised by Climate Chance)
4:45 – 16:15pm
Mangrove Breakthrough at
One Forest Summit
(organised by Climate
Champions)
4:45 – 16:15pm
Workshop on Sustainable
Use of Forest Resources
The case of the cosmetic and
pharmaceutical industry
4:45 – 16:15pm
Fighting deforestation to
prevent zoonoses
Preventing Zoonotic Disease
Emergence (PREZODE)
4:45 – 16:15pm
Ministerial meet-up with
representatives of the One
Forest Youth Forum
4:45 – 16:15pm
Sustainable Public Private
Partnerships in tropical
zones
(Organised by Meridiam and
FGIS)
7:30pm
Welcome cocktail reception
Nomad Hotel
March 2 – Morning
Ministerial, civil society and expert level day
Radisson Blu Hotel
Room Moabi
Room Libreville 1
Room Libreville 2
Room Okoumé
Room Ebène
One Forest Business Forum
09:00 – 10:30am
One Forest Business Forum
09:00 – 10:30am
Rainforest Monitoring in
Gabon: Partnerships,
technology and innovation
(organised by AGEOS and
WWF)
09:00 – 10:30am
Meeting of business leaders
on the main messages to
convey to government leaders
9h00 – 10h15
09:00 – 10:30am
International Partnerships for
Forests
09h00 – 11h00
10:45 – 12:15pm
Pitching session of innovative
solutions for forest
preservation
10:30 – 11:05
Dialogue between ministers,
business and civil society
leaders
11:15 – 12:45
10:45 – 12:15pm
Science in the Congo Basin:
Progress, gaps &
recommendations
10h45 – 12h15
10:45 – 12:15pm
Hackaton
A co-design tool to support the
One Forest Vision – reflection
workshop
11h15 – 12h45
12:30 – 2:00pm
March 2 – Afternoon
High-level segment for heads of state and government
Presidential Palace
3:00 – 3:30pm
Heads of state and government opening ceremony
– Introductory remarks by the moderator, Ms. Asha Sumputh.
– Broadcast of a video The sentinels of the forest”
– Introductory remarks by the President of the Gabonese Republic, Mr. Ali Bongo Ondimba
– Introductory remarks by the President of the French Republic, Mr. Emmanuel Macron
3:30 – 4:15pm
One Forest Vision : un dialogue avec la communauté scientifique
This first discussion will address issues related to scientific cooperation between the three forest basins and present to the Leaders an aspirational project, "One Forest
Vision", on the search for new knowledge at the scale of the most vital reserves of carbon and biodiversity.
– Keynote – Audrey Azoulay, Director General of UNESCO
– Presentation of the " One Forest Vision " project by :
– Simon Lewis, Professor of Global Change Science at UCL
– Chalapan Kalawin, Dean of University of Papua New Guinea's School of Natural and Physical Sciences
– Jean-Christophe Bokika, President of Mbou-Mon-Tour (MMT), a Congolese NGO specializing in the protection of bonobos
– Salomé Buchaki, Professor at Oxford and member of the One
– Questions and answers with the Heads of State and Government
4:30 – 4:45pm
Keynotes on the protection of tropical forests
– Tamarah Moutotekema Boussamba, representative of the One Forest Youth Summit: What are the proposals of African youth to better protect forests?
– Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Chadian activist, member of the IIFFCC
4:45 – 5:00pm
Break and broadcast of a video on tropical forests (The Explorers)
5:00 – 5:45pm
“Is there a business case to protect tropical rainforests?”
This second discussion will demonstrate that to protect the forest, it is not necessary to put it under a bell, but to better exploit it, by organizing the transition of the models of
production in the forest countries towards the bioeconomy, centered on the local transformation, the traceability of the products, and the remuneration of the populations.
– Speakers:
– Marc Palahi, Director of the European Forest Institute
– Gagan Gupta, President of ARIZE, promoter of free trade zones in Africa
– Violette Combe, Director of Operations, Veja
– Wanjira Mathai, WRI Africa Regional Director
– Questions and answers with the Heads of State and Government
5:45 – 6:45pm
Can we agree on cash transfers for ecosystem services?
This third discussion will demonstrate that there is a potential "second dividend" for forest countries seeking to protect their forests, through innovative payment
mechanisms for forest ecosystem services: The objective will be to improve the characterization and growth of the high economic value and environmental integrity
carbon credit market segment, but also to follow up on the "Positive Conservation Partnerships" (PCPs) initiative launched at COP27 on financing the conservation of
vital carbon and biodiversity reserves, including through innovative products such as “biodiversity certificates”.
– Speakers:
– Philippe Zaouati, Managing Director of the investment fund Mirova
– Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Chief Executive Officer of GEF
– M. Sanjayan, CEO of Conservation International
– Razan Al Mubarak, IUCN Chair and UN Climate Change High-Level Champion from the COP28 Presidency
– Questions and answers with the Heads of State and Government
– Keynote – Lionel Zinsou, Managing Partner, Southbridge
6:45 – 7:15pm
Closing Ceremony
– Closing speech of the President of the French Republic, Mr. Emmanuel Macron
– Closing speech of the President of the Gabonese Republic, Mr. Ali Bongo Ondimba
Evening
Diner cocktail with heads of state and government
2 mars 2023
Ouverture du sommet
- Panéliste: Jean Luc Mernier
- Heure: 09h00 - 09h30
- Lieu: Radisson
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Ouverture du sommet
- Panéliste: Jean Luc Mernier
- Heure: 09h00 - 09h30
- Lieu: Radisson
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Ouverture du sommet
- Panéliste: Jean Luc Mernier
- Heure: 09h00 - 09h30
- Lieu: Radisson
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Ouverture du sommet
- Panéliste: Jean Luc Mernier
- Heure: 09h00 - 09h30
- Lieu: Radisson
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