Program
AGENDA FOR THE THREE BASINS SUMMIT
Three sessions have structured the three-day program of the Three Basins, Biodiversity Ecosystems and Tropical Forests Summit – Technical, Ministerial and High-Level.
Day 1: TECHNICAL SEGMENT
Schedule
9am – 9.55am
Activities
- Message from Mrs. Maria Alexandra Moreira Lopez, ACTO General Secretary (Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization)
- Opening speech by Mrs. Arlette Soudan-Nonault, Minister of the Environment, Sustainable Development and the Congo Basin, Technical Coordinator of the Congo Basin Climate Commission and the Congo Basin Blue Fund (CCBC)
Hall
Plenary
9.55am – 10am
Presentation of the day’s program (moderator to be identified: a journalist from each of the basins)
TBC
10am – 12.45am
- Introduction by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): Overview of the situation of forests, peatlands and mangroves by Mrs. Maria Nuutinen and Mr. Christophe Besacier
- Focus on the Congo Basin, by Mr. Chouaibou Nchoutpouen, Deputy Executive Secretary and Technical Coordinator (Central African Forest Commission)
- Focus on the Amazon basin, by Mr. Mauro Luis Ruffino, Coordinator of the Bioamazon project and the Regional Observatory of the Amazon (ORA) at the OTCA (Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization)
- Focus on the South-East Asia Basin by Dr. Arief Wijaya, Deputy Director WRI Indonesia • Presentation on the state of biodiversity, by Mrs. Fran Price, WWF Forest Global Lead
Plenary
12.45am – 1pm
Family photo
TBC
1pm – 3pm
TBC
14h-18h30 : SUMMIT PANNELS
Panelists
Moderator
Panel 5: Reintegrating Climate and Biodiversity into a Global Framework (2pm-3:30pm / 1h30)
(Chair: Mr. Joe Walston, Global Executive Vice President of the Wildlife Conservation Society)
Patrice Lefeu TBC
Panel 2: Strategy, programmes and concerted investment plans for enhanced cooperation between the three basins
Presidency:
Mr. Mauro Luis Ruffino,
Coordinator of the “Bioamazon” project and the ACTO Regional Amazon Observatory
Mr. Martin Kabaluapa,
Regional Director for the
Congo Basin, WWF
- Mr. Jean Richard Bruno Itoua
Minister of Hydrocarbons of the Republic of Congo - Mr. Alvaro Leyva Duran
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Colombia - Amb. Ukur Yattani
Minister of Finance and Planning of the Republic of Kenya - Mrs. Stéphanie Mbombo
Special Climate Envoy of the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo - Mr. Francesco Martoccia,
Vice President, EMEA Energy Strategy at Citigroup - Mr. Kevin Conrad,
Executive Director, Forest Nations Coalition (CFRN) - Mrs. Paloma Escudero,
Director, Global Special Adviser on Climate Advocacy, UNICEF - Mr. Cheick Fantamady Kante,
World Bank Country Director for Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Central African Republic and Equatorial Guinea - Mr. Robert Ondhowe</strong
- Carbon Market Development Expert, UNDP
- Mr. Maixent Raoul Ominga
Director General of the Société Nationale des Pétroles Congolais
Mr. Patrice LEFEU, Global
Climate Finance Leader, EY
Panel 4: Scientific Cooperation and Capacity Building (3:30pm-5pm / 1h30)
(Chair: Mr Paul Coustère, Regional Director and UNESCO Representative in Central Africa)
Dr. H. David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Ms. Wanjira Mathai, Deputy Director of Global Partnerships – World Resources Institute
Professor Simon Lewis, University of Leeds
Mr. Laurent Durieux, researcher at the IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement)
Dr. Grace Jopaul Loubota Panzou, Researcher, Denis Sassou-N’Guesso University, Higher Institute of Geographical Sciences, Environment and Planning (ISSGEA), African Research Initiative for Scientific Excellence
Dr. Emma Stokes, Vice President of the World Conservation Program, WCS
Mrs. Chantal Marijnissen, Head of Unit for Environment and Sustainable Natural Resources at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA)
Mr. Teodyl Nkuintchua,
Congo Basin Strategy and
Engagement Leader at World
Resources Institute
Inclusive Inter-Basin, Inter-Regional, National, Regional and Local Governance (17h-18h30)
Presidency:
Mrs. Arlette Soudan-Nonault
Minister of the Environment, Sustainable Development and the Congo Basin, CCBC Technical Coordinator
- Pierre Mabiala
Minister of State, Minister of Land Affairs and Estates
Public, in charge of relations with Parliament.
- Eve Bazaiba,
Minister of State for the Environment of the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Mauro Luis Ruffino,
Coordinator of the Bioamazon project and the Regional Observatory of the Amazon (ORA) of the ACTO
- Jean-Pierre Elong Bassi,
Secretary General of UCLG Africa
- Lucien Manga,
WHO Representative in Congo
- Marko Mahin,
Pastor and lecturer from Palangka Raya University, Indonesia, representative of indigenous peoples
- Francineti Maria Rodrigues Carvalho,
Abaetetuba Mayor, Brasil
- Félicité Tchibindat,
Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Representative of the UNICEF Executive Director and Head of UNICEF Delegation to the Tri-Basin Summit
- Christophe Guilhou,
Director of Sustainable Development at the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, France
- Pradeep Kurukulasuriya,
Executive Coordinator & Director, Climate Finance UNDP
Mr. Honoré Tabuna, Commissioner of the CCEAC
2pm – 6.30pm
Summit Side-Events
Cluster 1: Cooperation (1 hour per side-event)
- The role of local authorities in ecosystem management – UCLGA
- Launch of the co-facilitation of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership – CBFP
- Building a partnership with the profile of the fair development and assured safeguarding of the natural capital of the Congo Basin – WWF
- Programming of the scientific and capacity-building component of partnerships for forests, nature and climate in the 3 basins at global, regional and national scales – CIRAD/IRD
- Forest and Land Monitoring in the Three Basins: Strengthening Collaboration on Spatial Innovation for Protection and Restoration – WRI
- The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: Opportunities in the Tri-Basin Countries – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- Commitment of the development banks to the financing of the Blue Fund investment plan for the Congo Basin, under the coordination of the BEAC, Fund Manager – CCBC and BDEAC
- What is the framework for cooperation and dialogue between intergovernmental organizations? – CCEAC
- Strengthening regional collaboration and synergies for sustainable management of natural resources in the Congo Basin – UNDP
- Priorities and Opportunities from the National Climate and Development Reports for Congo Basin Countries – World Bank
Cluster 2: Biodiversity – Climate (1 hour per side-event)
- Preservation of protected areas – IUCN
- Reintegrating carbon projects into the Paris Agreement: experiences of effective implementation of Article 6 to protect and safeguard nature – Conservation International
- Ecological connectivity: towards a convergence of climate-biodiversity-desertification issues? – Climate Chance Association
- Contributions of UNESCO networks in biodiversity conservation and the establishment of the scientific cooperation platform between the three basins – UNESCO
- Launch of CAFI’s regional facilities, celebrated with a photography contest: “Our wealth: our region, our forests, our people, our biodiversity” – CAFI
Cluster 3: Ecosystem Financing (1 hour per side-event)
- Launch of the Congo Basin Science Initiative – Research and Capacity Building to Address the Climate and Biodiversity Crises and Promote Sustainable Development – Congo Basin Science Initiative
- The New Climate Economy – DRC
- Making the Congo Basin the cornerstone of global exports of premium carbon credits – United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
- Climate Innovation – A New Financing Mechanism for the Protection of High-Integrity Forests Across the Tropics – Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
- The carbon market: a real green and blue niche for the economies of the Congo Basin Blue Fund countries – Independent Peatland Observatory (ILO)
- Scaling up international funding for high-integrity forests – COMIFAC/WWF
- Eco-Zamba – Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo (SNCP)
Leveraging Natural Capital to Unlock Climate Finance for Congo Basin Forests – World Bank²
Cluster 4: Civil Society, Youth, Women and Indigenous Peoples (1 hour per side-event)
Feeding nature: youth at the center of biodiversity conservation – UNICEF
What to indicate
6.30pm – 7pm
Closing Ceremony
- Message from the Ambassador Carlos Alfredo Lazary Texeida, Executive Director of ACTO (Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization)
- Closing speech by Mrs. Arlette SOUDAN-NONAULT, Minister of the Environment, Sustainable Development and the Congo Basin, Technical Coordinator of the Congo Basin Climate Commission and the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin
Presentation of the Ministerial Section’s Program
Plenary
8pm – 9pm
Ministerial and institutional dinner (at the invitation of the Protocol)
Radisson Blu Hotel in Brazzaville
Day 2: MINISTERIAL SEGMENT
Schedule
9h-9h45
Activities
Opening Ceremony
- Opening remarks by H.E. Mr. Collinet Makosso, Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo
- Speech by H.E. Mrs. Josefa Sacko, AUC Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture
- Speech by Mr . Richard Duke, U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Climate
Hall
Plenary
9h45-10h
Words from the partners (3 min per speaker)
- Message from Mr. Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- A word from Dr. Moeti Matshidiso, WHO Africa Regional Director
- Message from Ms. Paloma Escudero, Director, Global Special Advisor on Climate Advocacy at UNICEF
Plenary
10am – 10.15am
Family photo
What to indicate
10.15am – 10.45am
Presentation of panel reports by rapporteurs (5 minutes per report)
Under the high authority of the Presidium (to be confirmed)
Panel 1: Regional and Global Governance
Mr. Jean-Pierre Elong Bassi,
Secretary General of UCLG Africa
Panel 2: Integrated Investment Strategy, Programs and Plans
Ms. Sheam Satkuru, Executive Director,International Tropical Timber
Organization (ITTO)
Panel 3: Financial Mechanism and Sovereign Carbon Market
Mrs. Stéphanie Mbombo
Special Climate Envoy of the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Panel 4: Scientific Cooperation and Capacity Building
Madame Wanjira Mathai,
Associate Director of Global and Africa Partnerships – World Resources Institutes
Panel 5: Reintegrating climate and biodiversity into a common global framework
Dr. H. David COOPER, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on
Biological Diversity (CBD)
Plenary
10.45am – 1.15pm
Presentation of the reports of the side-events by the referees (5mn per report)
Under the high authority of the Presidium (to be confirmed)
What to indicate
1:30pm – 3pm
Lunch offered to all participants
What to indicate
3pm – 4:30pm
Presentation and financing session of projects by the three Basins to the TFPs
Chaired by Mrs. Leila Banali, Minister for Energy Transition and Sustainable Development of the Kingdom of Morocco.
What to indicate
16h30-18h
Ministers’ Lock-up
Review of the Declaration of the Summit of the Three Tropical Forest Basins and next steps (behind close door)
State of the global biodiversity
Mrs. Fran Price, WWF Forest Global Lead
Plenary
6pm – 6.30pm
Closing Ceremony
Reading of the Ministers’ Final Communiqué
Plenary
6.30pm – 7.30pm
Official visit of the pavilions
Pavilion area
8pm
Presidential and Institutional Dinner (at the invitation of the Protocol)
Twin Towers in Brazzaville
Day 3: HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT
Schedule
8h30- 8h45
Activities
Welcoming participants
Reception of the Heads of State and Government by H.E. Denis Sassou N’guesso, President of the Republic of Congo, Head of State, President of the Congo Basin Climate Commission
Hall
Plenary
9h-9h15
Family photo
9h20–10h
Opening Ceremony
- Screening of the film “The 3 basins: Amazonia, Congo – Borneo, Mekong, South-East Asia”
- Message from Mrs. Stellah Mensah Sassou N’guesso, Mayor of the city of Kintélé
- Speech by Mrs. Arlette Soudan-Nonault, Minister of the Environment, Sustainable Development and the Congo Basin, Technical Coordinator of the Congo Basin Climate Commission and the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin
- Message from Mr. Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Message from H.E.M. Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, President of the Republic of Brazil
- Message from H.E.M. Joko Widodo, President of the Republic of Indonesia
- E.M. Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo
H.E. Opening Speech Denis Sassou N’guesso, President of the Republic of Congo, Head of State, President of the Congo Basin Climate Commission
Plenary
10h-10h10
Messages from the youth of the three basins
Plenary
10h10–11h10
State Intervention* (5min per speaker)
- Professor Faustin Archange Touadéra, Head of State of the Central African Republic
- E.M. Azali Assoumani, President of the Union of the Comoros, Chairperson of the African Union
- Message from H.E. Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic
- E.M. Umaru Embalo Cissoko, President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
- E. Mr. William Samoei Ruto, President of the Republic of Kenya
- E. Mr. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda
- E.M. Faure Gnassingbe Essozimna Eydema, President of the Republic of Togo
- Ms Ana Paula Chantre de Carvalho Pereira, Minister of Environment of the Republic of Angola, Head of Delegation
- Jules Doret Ndongo, Minister of Forests and Wildlife of the Republic of Cameroon, Representative of the Head of State
- Mr. Bingjiang Liu, Chief Engineer of Ecology and Environment of the Republic of China, Head of Delegation
- Jacques Assahoré Konan, Minister of the Environment, Sustainable Development and Ecological Transition of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, Representative of the Head of State
- Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Representative of the Head of State, Presidency of COP 27
- E.M. Ivan Eduardo Gil, Chancellor, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Bolivian Republic of Venezuela, Head of Delegation
- Leila Banali, Minister for Energy Transition and Sustainable Development of the Kingdom of Morocco
- E.M Vellamvelli Muraleedharan, Indian Minister of State for External and Parliamentary Affairs
- Mr François Chaumière, High Commissioner of the Republic of Mauritius, Representative of the Head of State
Plenary
11h10-11h15
Musical interlude
Plenary
11h15-12h15
Words from senior representatives of international organizations and institutions* (3 minutes per speaker)
- Message from Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission
- Message from Ambassador H.E. Gilberto Da Piedade Verissimo, President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States (CCEAC)
- Message from Ms. Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- A word from H.E. Mrs. Louise Mushikiwabo, Secretary General of La Francophonie of the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF)
- Message from Mr. Prosper Dodiko, President of COMIFAC, Minister of the Environment, Agriculture and Livestock
- A word from Mr. Virginijus Sinkevicius, European Commissioner for the Environment
- Message from Ms Lidia Brito, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences of UNESCO
- A word from Dr. Moeti Matshidiso, WHO Africa Regional Director
- Message from Mrs. Noura Hamladji, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Deputy Regional Director for Africa, UNDP
- A word from Dr. Félicité Tchibindat, Regional Director for West and Central Africa, representative of the Executive Director of UNICEF and Head of the UNICEF Delegation to the Three Basin Summit
- Message from Mr. Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- A word from Kirsten Schuijt, Director General of WWF
- Joe Walston, Executive Vice-President of Wildlife Conservation Society
- Nana Oumou Toure-Sy, Regional Director West and Central Africa, IUCN
Plenary
12h15-12h55
Official visit of the State pavilions and the stands of the institutional, technical and financial partners
13h-14h
Closed Meeting of Heads of State and Government (Format: 1 + 4)
Room of Heads of State
2:05pm – 2:30pm
Closing Ceremony
- Reading of the Declaration of the Summit of the Three Tropical Forest Basins by Mr. Alvato Leyva Duran,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Colombia
Closing remarks by H.E. Mr. Denis Sassou N’guesso, President of the Republic of Congo
Plenary
2:30pm – 3:30pm
Quick Lunch
4:30pm – 5pm
Tree planting ceremony on the site of the Denis SASSOU N’GUESSO University in Kintélé