Citizen ForumSocial Sustainability and Biological Safety

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Event of the COP-10 Partnership

Co-organisers: Third World Network (TWN); Federation of German Scientists (Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler, VDW)

Endorsed by: European Environment Agency (EEA), International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES), Nagoya Open University of the Environment (www), Nagoya University Graduate School of Environmental Studies (NU-GSES), Unión de Científicos Comprometidos con la Sociedad (UCCS)

Financial support by: EMstitut, Germany; Fondation pour le Progrès de l’Homme (FPH), France; GLS Bank, Germany; Manfred Hermsen Stiftung (MHS), Germany; Japan Citizens’ Network for Planet Diversity (JCNPD), Japan; Software AG Stiftung (SAGST), Germany; Third World Network (TWN), Malaysia; Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft (ZSL), Germany

Program

Oct 9 (15:30) – Opening & Lectures
Moderator: Yoko Shinkai, EPO-Chubu (in japanese)
Translation: japanese-english (video streams in original language)

Opening Speech

    1. Daizaburo Kuroda, Senior Councillor to the Ministry of the Environment, Japan

Messages from the Executive Secretary of the CBD

    Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the CBD

Introductory Speech: Balance of Global and Urban Environment, and Implications for Bological Diversity

    Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Nagoya University & Chair of Academic Advisory Group to Aichi Nagoya COP10 CBD Promotion Committee, Japan

Keynote Speech: Roles of Japan Expected in COP10/MOP5

    Christine von Weizsäcker, Federation of German Scientists (Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler, VDW)

Report: Scientific Findings and Messages for MOP5

    Hartmut Meyer, Coordinator of ENSSER, Germany

Oct 9 (16:35) – Panel Discussion
Moderators: Tomoaki Ito, Asahi Shinbun Newspaper & Yoko Shinkai, EPO-Chubu (in japanese)
Translation: japanese-english (video streams in original language)

    1. Panelists
    1. – Kazuo Watanabe, Tsukuba University, Japan
    1. – Noriko Momose, UNY Co. Ltd., Japan
    1. – Antonio Turrent-Fernández, INIFAP & UCCS, México
    – Christine von Weizsäcker, VDW, Germany

Oct 9 (17:45) – Closure
Masashi Kato, Aichi Nagoya COP10 CBD Promotion Committee