Date: 26 September 2007
Venue: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Introduction
Companies across Europe are voluntarily engaging in initiatives to protect biodiversity.
The scale of this challenge requires finding consistent commitments and solutions that take into account the specificities of different economic sectors and nature conservation needs.
This seminar, promoted by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Fundação Cuidar O Futuro and Quercus ANCN, aimed to involve civil society in a long-term discussion and work process on this topic, also contributing some reflections for the International Conference on Business and Biodiversity, promoted in November by the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union.
Programme
Wednesday, 26 September 2007
| 9:00 | Opening Fátima Grácio (President of Fundação Cuidar O Futuro); Hélder Spínola (President of Quercus ANCN); Viriato Soromenho-Marques (Scientific Coordinator of the Gulbenkian Environment Programme); João Menezes (President of the Institute for Nature Conservation and Biodiversity) |
| Panel 1 | Halting biodiversity loss, an EU objective Moderator: Fátima Grácio (President of Fundação Cuidar O Futuro) |
| 10:00 | Biodiversity: the role of the Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council João Menezes (Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e da Biodiversidade – ICNB) |
| 10:20 | The European Countdown 2010 Network: goals, objectives and action Sebastian Winkler (Countdown 2010, The World Conservation Union – IUCN) |
| 10:40 | The value of biodiversity: a project for the European Commission Andrew Jones (European Institute for Environmental Policy) |
| Panel 2 | Biodiversity and the business world in other EU countries Moderator: Paula Silva (Quercus ANCN) |
| 11:40 | Activities for “Business and Biodiversity” in Germany Helmut Roscheisen (Deutscher Naturschutzring – DNR, Alemanha) |
| 12:00 | Biodiversity and business in the Netherlands Arthur Eijs (Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, Netherlands) |
| Panel 3 | Business and biodiversity: case studies Moderator: Hélder Spínola (President of Quercus ANCN) |
| 14:30 | Activities for “Business and Biodiversity” in Germany Helmut Roscheisen (Deutscher Naturschutzring – DNR, Alemanha) |
| 14:50 | Boosting the economy in protected areas by small and medium enterprises Zbig Karpowicz (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds – RSPB) |
| 15:10 | EDP strategy and projects for biodiversity preservation António Neves de Carvalho (EDP – Energias de Portugal) |
| Panel 4 | ENGO action in biodiversity protection Moderator: Viriato Soromenho-Marques (Scientific Coordinator of the Gulbenkian Environment Programme) |
| 16:10 | Biological Reserves and other projects for biodiversity preservation José Paulo Martins e Paula Silva (Quercus ANCN) |
| 16:30 | The Priolo project and its socio-economic impact Luís Costa (Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves – SPEA) |
| 16:50 | LPN facing biodiversity conservation in Portugal Carlos Teixeira (Liga para a Protecção da Natureza – LPN) |
| 17:30 | Closing Emílio Rui Vilar (President of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation); Humberto Rosa (Secretary of State for the Environment) |
Trilateral project on business and biodiversity: final report (en)
Organisation:
Fundação Cuidar O Futuro; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; Quercus
Patrons and supporters:
Continente; Brisa; 3M; REN; Ministry of the Environment (Germany); Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento; Logoplaste
