International Seminar

FFPRI Seminars During COP29

Forest and Forest Products Research Institution (FFPRI) is organizing the COP29 Seminar as follows.

COP29 Japan Pavilion Seminar
Sustainable Forest Management for NbS

Date

15^th Nov. 2024 (Fri) 17:30-18:45 (Azerbaijan Time)

Registration for Online Teams Webinar

The URL for our seminar is as follow.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81866866332?pwd=ZqzZA8nmTiILgwfP4MtbFXI0pC4lDt.1

Purpose of the Event

Rehabilitation of degraded forest and sustainable forest management contribute to climate change adaptation as nature-based solutions (NbS) through disaster risk reduction and providing livelihoods.

Japan, as one of the world's forest-rich nations, has supported sustainable forest management efforts in developing countries. Japan also has long experience in disaster prevention and mitigation using forest functions as a countermeasure against mountain disasters. In addition, forest-based disaster risk reduction technologies have been developed for disaster prevention and mitigation, such as creating mountain disaster risk maps using remote sensing technologies and examining countermeasures, as well as clarifying the function of healthy mangrove forests in coastal areas for disaster risk reduction.

This seminar will focus on climate change adaptation through forests. Speakers from government agencies, research institutes, international organizations, and developing countries will share their experience and the reforestation and climate change countermeasures through forest sector initiatives in developing countries and discuss based on the latest findings.

Program

Opening remarks
	Sheam Satkru (Pre-recorded) (Executive Director, ITTO)
Presentations
	ECHIZEN Miho (Forestry Agency, Japan) Protecting Living Environments from Natural Disasters due to Climate Change. Forest Conservation as Eco-DRR
	TAMAI Koji （Principal Research Director, FFPRI) Development of disaster prevention and mitigation technologies through forests as NbS and implementation examples in Vietnam
	Jennifer Conje (Director, Forest Management Division, ITTO) Restoration of degraded tropical forests and sustainable forest management: nature-based solutions for global challenges
	SAKAMOTO Noriaki (Senior Advisor, Global Environment Department, JICA) Mangrove conservation and restoration enhancing synergies with climate change mitigation and adptation, disaster risk reduction and livelihood enhancement of coastal communities
	Cécile Bibiane Ndjebet (the President and Founder of the African Women's Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF)) The achievements of the women’s led forest landscape restoration ITTO projects in Togo and Benin
Panel Discussion
	Moderator : TOMA Takeshi (Research Specialist, FFPRI）

Language

English

Organizer/Co-host

Organized by Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute

Co-hosted by Forestry Agency, International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)

For information on the entire COP29 Japan Pavilion Seminar, please visit
https://www.env.go.jp/earth/cop/cop29/pavilion/ .

FFPRI Seminars During COP29