Agenda & Speakers

The workshop will run from 9:00 - 17:00 CEST based in Holcim Think Tank B at IUCN HQ.

9.00 Session 1: Opening (Angela Andrade & Radhika Murti)

− Welcome, context and objectives

− Introduction of participants

− Where we are heading

9.30 Session 2: Global Ecosystem Typology: what is an ecosystem? (David Keith)

− What is the RLE, and its objective, rationale for design

− What is an ecosystem, typology, vision

− How the typological framework supported the classification process in Myanmar

− Towards a global assessment

− Q&A

10.30 Coffee break

10.45 Session 3: Overview of the Red List of Ecosystems methodology (Irene Zager)

− Key terms and concepts

− Conceptual models

− Overview of criteria and rule set

− Tools and documents

− Q&A

11.45 Session 4: Stepping through an assessment (Marcos Valderrábano)

- How to do and read an assessment from beginning to end, warts and all

12.30 Lunch break

13:30 Session 5: Australia & Brazil: Legislation & decision-making for ecosystem management (David Keith)

14:00 Session 6: Colombia: National integrated decision making, conservation and restoration (Irene Zager)

14.30 Session 7: Ecosystem services and ecosystem accounting (Emily Nicholson)

− Meso-America Reef

− Mountain Ash Forest and SEEA

− Q&A

15.00 Coffee break

15.15 Session 8 (interactive): Regional, continental and global assessments – coherence across scales and assessments. (José Rafael Ferrer Paris, Jess Rowland)

− Americas

− Developing biodiversity indices from the IUCN RLE

− Working groups on Natural Capital Accounting (NCA), the database and RLE applications

16.45 Session 9: Wrap-up, Discussion, and Reflections on the Day

− Where we are heading, current status.

− Questions, comments, and further guidance

− Discussion

17.00 End of Workshop