IPSI partner the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with the IPSI Secretariat at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) and Conservation International Japan, held this side event during the Second meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI-2) of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal, Canada. The side event focused on sharing knowledge and experiences from successful on-the-ground actions for replication and upscaling of community-based landscape planning and management approaches and practices through sustainable finance.

Presentations:

Welcome Remarks: Keiichi Nakazawa, MOEJ

Moderator: Yoko Watanabe, GEF SGP

The Satoyama Initiative and IPSI: William Dunbar, UNU-IAS

Participatory assessments, replication and upscaling through COMDEKS & SGP: Diana Salvemini, UNDP

The GEF-Satoyama Project: Yoji Natori, Conservation International Japan