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UNITED  NATIONS  EDUCATIONAL,  SCIENTIFIC  AND  CULTURAL  ORGANIZATION      

4th  World  Congress  of  Biosphere  Reserves      

Lima,  Peru    

WORKSHOP  ON  CLIMATE  CHANGE    15  March  2015  15h00-­‐18h00  

Room:  Puruchuco    

Programme    Objective:   The   objective   of   the   Workshop   is   to   discuss   and   develop   recommendations   for   how  

biosphere   reserves   and   the  WNBR   can   function   as   an   Observatory   for   climate   change  mitigation   and   adaption   science   and   actions   in   an   overall   sustainable   development  context,  focusing  on  the  implementation  of  the  MAB  Strategy  (e.g.  Strategic  Objective  4.  Support   Mitigation   and   Adaptation   to   Climate   Change   and   other   aspects   of   Global  Environmental   Change)   and   the   Draft   Lima   Action   Plan   (e.g.   Action   A1.4.   Use   BRs   as  priority   sites/observatories   for   climate   change   research,   monitoring,   mitigation   and  adaptation,  including  in  support  of  the  UNFCCC  COP21  Paris  Agreement).  

Chair:       Ms  Martha  ‘Pati’  Ruiz  Corzo         (Sierra  Gorda  Biosphere  Reserve,  Mexico)    15h00-­‐16h30     Presentations  followed  by  questions  and  answers:    

Mr  Xavier  Sticker  –  COP21  Paris  Agreement  (Ambassador  for  the  Environment,  French  Foreign  Affairs  Department,  France)  

     Ms  Flavia  Schlegel  –  ‘Changing  Minds,  not  the  Climate’.  UNESCO,  MAB  and  WNBR  Actions  on  Climate  Change  (Assistant  Director-­‐General  (ADG)  Natural  Sciences  (UNESCO),  Lead  ADG  for  the  UNESCO  Task  Force  on  Climate  Change)  

      Mr  Mohammed  Bachri  -­‐  Climate  Change  and  Biosphere  Reserves,  Towards  COP22  

(National   Agency   for   the   Development   of   Oasis   zones   and   the   Arganier   (ANDZOA),  Morocco)    

 Mr  Pierre  Ibisch  -­‐  Ecosystem-­‐Based  Risk  Management  Approach  and  Climate  Change  (Eberswalde  University  for  Sustainable  Development,  Germany)  

     Mr  Andrew  Bell  –  Biosphere  Reserves  as  Experimental  Areas  for  Green  Growth  and  Low  Carbon  Development  (Coordinator,  North  Devon  Biosphere  Reserve,  Vice  Chairman,  UK  Committee  for  UNESCO  MAB  Programme)  

 Ms   Martha   ‘Pati’   Ruiz   Corzo   –   Community   Based   Projects   Linking   Biodiversity  Conservation,  Climate  Change  and  Sustainable  Development    

    (Sierra  Gorda  Biosphere  Reserve,  Mexico)  

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 16h30-­‐17h30     General  discussion    17h30-­‐18h00     Conclusions  and  recommendations    18h00       Closure  of  workshop