In 2025, major global platforms such as the IUCN World Conservation Congress and the Global Landscapes Forum generated powerful momentum around ecosystem restoration, climate action, biodiversity, and sustainable land use.
This event brought together 34 leading international organizations, local actors and media working on climate, biodiversity and land degradation in Bonn with the aim of fostering strategic alignment, strengthening collaboration, and leveraging Bonn’s role as an environmental hub in this decisive year for global climate and biodiversity action.
Featured speakers:
- Ursula Sautter, Deputy Mayor of the City of Bonn
- Oliver Conz, Director General, Germany’s Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN)
- Éliane Ubalijoro, Chief Executive Officer, Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
- Boris Erg, Director, European Regional Office, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
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Damon Jones, Manager of Programmes Coordination, UN Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC)
- Robert Spaull, Head of Communications, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
- Andrea Meza Murillo, Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
- Robert Nasi, Director General, CIFOR; Director of Science, CIFOR-ICRAF
