This event will serve to formally launch the report entitled Decent Work in Nature-based Solutions 2024: Unlocking jobs through investment in skills and nature-based infrastructure, produced and published in a collaboration between ILO, UNEP, and IUCN IN 2024.
Agenda
- Welcome and introduction: Melissa De Kock, Deputy Director, UNEP-WCMC (Moderator)
- Opening remarks: Mia Seppo, Assistant Director-General, ILO or Moustapha Kamal Gueye, Director, Just Transitions Action Programme, ILO
- Presentation of report findings: Maikel-Lieuw-Kie-Song, Senior Technical Specialist, Employment-Intensive Investments, ILO
- Case study presentation on Spain: Sonia Castañeda Rial, Deputy Director for the Green Transition, Fundación Biodiversidad F.S.P., Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico
- Discussion and Q&A: Jim Hall, Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks, University of Oxford. Najma Mohamed, Head of Nautre-based solutions, UNEP-WCMC. Angela Andrade, Chairperson, Commission on Ecosystem Management, IUCN (tbc). Catarina Faria Alves Silveira
- Q&A with the audience
- Summary and closing
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About the report
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are gaining global momentum as tools for addressing challenges such as land degradation, desertification, climate change, and biodiversity loss. But in addition to the environmental benefits that NbS can deliver, they can also provide a host of social and economic co-benefits that can make significant contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For example, NbS can create jobs in sectors like forestry, agriculture, construction and tourism, boosting local economies and contributing to poverty reduction. Increasing global attention on these other benefits is part of the key to scaling up investment in nature and closing the estimated US$400 billion annual nature financing gap, which will be necessary to meet global targets under the SDGs, Paris Climate agreement, and Global Biodiversity Framework.
By providing a forum for discussion, the event will serve to provide policymakers with information that can be used to help make the case for scaling up investments in NbS, as a crucial component of meeting our global targets by 2030. Read the report