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No Go in World Heritage sites and other protected areas: success stories in leveraging the private sector and remaining challenges

Why attend
This session will provide practical, evidence-based lessons and approaches on how to avoid impacts from economic activities to World Heritage sites and protected areas, and to improve the values for which they were designated.
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This session will explore in a participatory way, how cooperation with the private sector, including mining, oil and gas, the insurance and financial sector can be a driving force to ensure that World Heritage sites and protected areas be safeguarded from certain developments which might irreversibly affect their values. It will take stock of the World Heritage natural sites experience in implementing the “No Go" commitment, including its growing uptake by financial institutions and insurance companies, and it will assess the opportunity for the development of practical guidance to implement effectively the IUCN Recommendation WCC-2016-Rec-102. The session is designed for business representatives (including financial institutions and insurance companies), NGOs, protected areas managers, government officials, certification schemes’ representatives.

Session agenda

Moderator

Mr Trevor SANDWITH

Director - Global Protected and Conserved Areas Programme,
Switzerland


16:00 - 17:30

Speaker

Mr Guy DEBONNET

Chief of Natural Heritage ,
UNESCO World Heritage Centre
France


16:00 - 17:30

Panelist

Mrs Amandine FAVIER

Head Sustainable Finance,
WWF Suisse
Switzerland


16:00 - 17:30

Ms Aoife REYNOLDS

Senior Environmental Performance Lead ,
Royal Dutch Shell
The Netherlands


16:00 - 17:30

Eddie RICH

CEO,
International Hydropower Association
United Kingdom


16:00 - 17:30

Dr Kanyinke SENA

Director ,
Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee
Kenya


16:00 - 17:30

Dr Mechtild RÖSSLER

Director World Heritage Centre,
UNESCO
France


16:00 - 17:30

Mr Rohitesh DHAWAN

CEO,
International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)
United Kingdom


16:00 - 17:30

Dr Stephen WOODLEY

Vice Chair for Science and Biodiversity, World Commission on Protected Areas, IUCN,
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas
Canada


16:00 - 17:30

  • Fauna & Flora International [United Kingdom]
  • Stichting CHIMBO [The Netherlands]
  • The Development Institute [Ghana]
  • The Nature Conservancy [United States of America]
  • Wildlife Conservation Society [United States of America]
  • IUCN National Committee of The Netherlands
  • IUCN Commission on Ecosystems Management (CEM)
  • IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
  • IUCN Business and Biodiversity Programme
  • IUCN Global Protected Areas Programme
  • IUCN Regional Office for West and Central Africa (PACO)
  • IUCN World Heritage Programme
  • UNEP Finance Initiative Principles for Sustainable Insurance; Aluminium Stewardship Initiative; AGEREF/CL
  • UNESCO World Heritage Centre

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