LIVE FROM THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY - COP 15 MONTREAL (PLENARY)
December 9th, 2022 at 12:30pm ET
December 7 – 19, 2022 in Montreal, Canada, governments from around the world will come together to agree on a new set of goals to guide global actions through 2040 to protect and restore nature. Action targets include conservation of at least 30 percent of land and seas globally; restoration of at least 20 percent of degraded freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems; and nature-based contributions to global climate change mitigation of at least 10 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year. Hear from leaders at the conference about progress.
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Martin Beaudoin Nadeau
Viridis Terra
Martin Beaudoin Nadeau completed his bachelor’s degree with honours in Forest Sciences: Specialization in International Forestry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He also earned a master’s degree in Agroforestry and an MBA Global Business at Université Laval in Quebec City. He studied for one year in Costa Rica at the University of Costa Rica to enhance his knowledge of tropical ecosystems, which led him to work as a professional on projects in soil protection and conservation, plant diversity, and soil fertility in many tropical agroforest and forest ecosystems. Martin Beaudoin Nadeau has also been working for several years in the development of new, sustainable, and low-cost green phytotechnologies for the restoration, remediation, return to production, and quick reforestation of degraded lands, including mining sites, using the least possible amount of organic, chemical, and mineral inputs. He is an expert in forestry, agroforestry, and ecological restoration on degraded lands with experience across Canada, Latin America (Costa Rica, Ecuador, Haiti), and Africa (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, South Africa, Zambia). Martin Beaudoin Nadeau is an executive board member of the Canadian Land Reclamation Association (CLRA): Chapter Quebec.
Rosa Galvez
Senate of Canada
Rosa Galvez, originally from Peru, is one of Canada’s leading experts in pollution control and its effect on human health. She has a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from McGill University and has been a professor at Université Laval à Québec since 1994, heading the Civil and Water Engineering Department from 2010 to 2016. She specializes in water and soil decontamination, waste management and residues, and environmental impact and risk assessment. Throughout her career, she has been requested by private, governmental and community organisations to offer expert advice. She has also advised a number of international organisations including on Canada-US and Quebec-Vermont agreements regarding the protection of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River. She also conducted an important study on the catastrophic oil spill at Lac-Mégantic. Senator Galvez is a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering and Engineers Without Borders. Her research has led her around the world to countries such as France, Italy, Belgium, Japan and China. Senator Galvez was appointed to the Senate on December 6, 2016, representing Québec (Bedford). She lives in Quebec with her partner, Luke, and has three children, Virginie, Lydia and Francisco.
Hari Balasubramanian
EcoAdvisors
Since founding EcoAdvisors in 2012, Hari has helped to unlock more than $3 billion USD in new commitments to conservation, sustainable development, and nature-based solutions. Over the last 2 years, with over $300 million advised (>$130 million deployed in Canada), EcoAdvisors has helped advance the sustainable management of over 50 million hectares of land and ocean. Projects include 9 million hectares in Canada’s boreal and extend globally to temperate rainforests in Chile and the deserts of Australia, protecting endangered species and critical habitat while lending support to indigenous and local communities at the front lines of sustainability solutions. He also serves as a Director for several Canadian environmental charities, mentor to start-ups, and advisor to investors, corporates and governments on the value of nature.
Melinda Macleod
BHP Foundation
Melinda has spent the past six years working with expert organizations to build a portfolio of projects. This program now supports seven Projects that are aiming to change the way conservation at a large scale is achieved, with a big focus on supporting Indigenous peoples and local communities culture and leadership, in locations as diverse as snow-covered boreal forest in Canada, coral reefs, tropical rainforests in the Peruvian Amazon and Australia’s 10 Deserts. Before this, Melinda worked for five years with the BHP team in Environmental Strategy and health, safety and environment leadership roles, and for 16 years with the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority. With a major in Zoology (Bachelor of Science), Melinda also hold a post-graduate diploma in Environmental Impact Assessment and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is based in Perth, Australia.
Claudio Schneider
Conservation International Peru
Dr. Claudio Schneider is Senior Technical Director of the Peru Field Program at Conservation International. He has a Forest Engineering degree from Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina in Lima, Peru, a M.Sc. degree in Tropical Silviculture from Georg-August University in Goettingen, Germany, and a Ph.D. in Forest Science with emphasis in remote sensing and geographic information systems from Colorado State University. He has worked as a Natural Protected Area Specialist for the Division of Natural Protected Areas of the Peruvian Institute of Natural Resources, in the implementation of flood monitoring and forecasting systems, agriculture development and drought mitigation related projects in Bangladesh, Iraq, Morocco and the Western United States. Since 2009, Claudio has been in charge of the technical supervision of all the programs being implemented by Conservation International in Peru, including, the consolidation of the bi-national Vilcabamba-Amboró Conservation Corridor, the implementation of a forest management project for indigenous communities in the Peruvian Central Amazon, the development of several REDD+ projects, and the provision of technical assistance on REDD+ readiness to the Peruvian Ministry of Environment.
