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Opening ceremony

This event marks the official opening of the XV World Forestry Congress (XV WFC). The Congress will serve as an opportunity to focus on the current state and future of world forestry in the...

Upcoming sessions

9:00 AM KST - 10:30 AM KST

Opening ceremony

This event marks the official opening of the XV World Forestry Congress (XV WFC). The Congress will serve as an opportunity to focus on the current state and future of world forestry in the...

H.R.H. Princess Basma bint Ali

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

FAO Goodwill Ambassador

H.E. Byeong-Am Choi

Korea Forest Service

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Director General

H.E. Moon Jae-in

Republic of Korea

Magdalena Jovanović

International Forestry Students Association

11:00 AM KST - 12:30 PM KST

Special event
High-level dialogue - Building a green, healthy and resilient future with forests

This high-level event is designed to set the scene for the entire Congress and tackle all major threads of the programme at the highest political level. It will focus on two fundamental...

H.E. Bat-erdene Bat-ulzii

Minister of Environment and Tourism

H.E. Byeong-Am Choi

Korea Forest Service

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Director General

Yannick Glemarec

Green Climate Fund

Executive Director

Juan Carlos Jintiach

Technical adviser climate change and biodiversity

Vice-Chairman and CEO

H.E. Rosalie Matondo

Republic of the Congo

Minister of Forest Economy

International Union of Forest Research Organizations

Ewha Womans University

Journalist and Professor

Yugratna Srivastava

Youth Task Force UN Decade and Youth Constituency Focal Point to UNEP

Jessica Vega Ortega

Global Indigenous Youth Caucus

Juergen Voegele

Vice President for Sustainable Development

12:30 PM KST - 1:30 PM KST

Special event
State of the World's Forests 2022 technical launch: Forest pathways for green...

Trees, forests and sustainable forestry can help the world recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and combat looming environmental crises such as climate change and biodiversity loss. However this...

Christophe Besacier

Team Leader, Forest and Landscape Restoration and Lead of the UN Decade Task Force on Best Practices

Journalist and broadcaster

Forestry Officer

Malgorzata Buszko-Briggs

Food and Agriculture Organization

Senior Forestry Officer

Forest Biodiversity and Restoration Team Leader

Thais Linhares Juvenal

Senior Forestry Officer

Ewald Rametsteiner

Deputy Director

Gerardo Segura Warnholtz

Senior Forestry Officer

Elaine Springgay

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Agroforestry Officer

Deputy Director

Senior Forestry Officer

2:00 PM KST - 4:00 PM KST

Plenary session 1
UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration – 8 more years to heal the planet

The UN General Assembly proclaimed 2021—2030 the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, asking FAO and UNEP to lead the implementation of the Decade. Since its launch, the UN Decade has...

H.R.H. Princess Basma bint Ali

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

FAO Goodwill Ambassador

The Economist Washington bureau chief & Lexington columnist

Christophe Besacier

Team Leader, Forest and Landscape Restoration and Lead of the UN Decade Task Force on Best Practices

US Department of Agriculture Forest Service

Associate Chief

Professor, Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich

Chair of the Advisory Council for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and founder of Restor

Rémi D'Annunzio

Forestry Officer

Lead UN Decade Science Task Force

Gabriel Labbate

United Nations Environment Programme

Head Climate Mitigation Unit and global team leader of UNREDD Programme

Maria Helena Semedo

Deputy Director-General

Yugratna Srivastava

Youth Task Force UN Decade and Youth Constituency Focal Point to UNEP

Deputy Director

Chair of the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Senior Forest Policy Officer

4:00 PM KST - 5:30 PM KST

Grand Ballroom 101+102

Sub-theme 1 - Session 1
Global deforestation: challenges and opportunities for concrete action...

2022 is a critical year to accelerate and deliver forest commitments to collectively reduce deforestation and forest degradation and to meet Paris Agreement goals. The Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration...

Chief Executive Officer Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency

GEF Operational Focal Point and Assistant Minister of Environment for International Projects

UN-REDD Programme Secretariat

H.E. Bianca Isabel Dager Jervis

Ministry of Environment Water and Ecological Transition, Ecuador

Thomas Yaw Gyambrah

Forestry Commission

Manager Programs MRV

Karine Hertzberg

International Climate and Forests Initiative Norway

Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development Argentina

National Director Forests

Center for International Forestry Research

Director General

National Institute of Forest Science

Gustavo Sánchez Valle

President of the Board of Directors of the Red MOCAF in Mexico; Secretary of the AMPB Board of Directors;

member of the Coordination of the AGCT and CSO representative in the Executive Board of the UN-REDD Programme

Adriana Lucia Santa Méndez

Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia

Director of Forest Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Maria Helena Semedo

Deputy Director-General

Benjamin Singer

Green Climate Fund

Senior Forest and Land Use Specialist

H.E. Gandi Sulistiyanto Soeherman

Indonesian ambassador to the Republic of Korea

4:00 PM KST - 5:30 PM KST

Grand Ballroom 103

Sub-theme 2 - Session 1
Setting the scene of forests and trees as nature-based solutions

This session will set the scene by introducing the state-of-the-art in nature-based solutions (NBS) and why they are critical for the planet and human well-being, as well as for more sustainable...

Journalist and broadcaster

World Resources Institute

Director of Vital Landscapes

Juan Carlos Jintiach

Technical adviser climate change and biodiversity

Deborah Lawrence

University of Virginia

Professor of Environmental Sciences | Director of Environmental Thought and Practice

Elizabeth Maruma Mrema

Executive Secretary

Head of Impact and ESG

4:00 PM KST - 5:30 PM KST

Grand Ballroom 104+105

Sub-theme 3 - Session 1
Managing forests for the SDGs: Creating value, equality and resilience...

Forests contribute to all SDGs in direct and indirect ways. Mapping and quantifying those contributions are necessary for scaling up public and private action to achieve the SDGs. The session will...

Francisco Xavier Aguilar Cabezas

Swedish University of Agricultural Science

Professor of Forest Economics

Global Lead for Forests, Landscapes, and Biodiversity

Richard Bin Mei

Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources University of Georgia

Hargreaves Professor of Forest Finance

Institute for Environmental Studies

Senior Researcher

Benjamin Filewod

London School of Economics and Political Science

Assistant Professorial Research Fellow in Conservation Finance

Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources University of Georgia

Assistant Professor

Thais Linhares Juvenal

Senior Forestry Officer

Daniel C. Miller

University of Notre Dame

Associate Professor of Environmental Policy

Paola Sarela Pozo Inofuentes

Thuenen Institut

Jade Quetzal Nava Cárdenas

CIESTAAM, Universidad Autonoma Chapingo, Texcoco, Mexico

Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen

Natural Resources Institute Finalnd Luke

Associate Research Professor

SAPPI Southern Africa

Vice President Forestry

4:00 PM KST - 5:30 PM KST

Conference room 201+202

Sub-theme 4 - Session 1
Overview of the connection of forest ecosystems to human health,...

The global status and knowledge of the relationships between forests and trees with human health and well-being will be presented, including review of the latest data and evidence. While this will...

Thomas Astell-Burt

University of Wollongong (UOW)

Professor and Founding Co-Director of the Population Wellbeing and Environment Research Lab (PowerLab)

Korea Forest Service

Director-general of the Forest Welfare Bureau

Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo

Conservation Manager

Ulrika Stigsdotter

Univerity of Copenhagen

Professor of Landscape Architecture

Liisa Tyrväinen

Natural Resources Institute Finland

Matilda van den Bosch

Barcelona Institute for Global Health

Senior Researcher