Ban Ki Moon speaking at IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022

Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UN CBD) speaks during the launch of the IUCN Contributions for Nature Platform at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022. 

Yannick Glemarec, Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund speaks at the Leaders dialogue I: Nurturing a long-term vision for nature in uncertain times during the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022. 

IUCN Director General Bruno Oberle speaks during the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022. 

Ana Maria Hernandez Salgar, Chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecoysytem Services (IPBES) speaks with Stewart Maginnis, Deputy Director General for Programme with IUCN and Beatrice Atim Anywar, Minister of State for Environment, Uganda at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022. 

Abdulla Naseer, Minister of State for Environment, Climate Change and Technology, Maldives speaks with moderator Manuel Pulgar Vidal during Session 9: Building a net-zero, nature-positive world: Tackling the climate and biodiversity crises at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022.

IUCN President Razan Al Mubarak listens to Lucy Mulenkei, Executive Director of the Indigenous Information Network (IIN) during the final Leaders Dialogue at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022.

Stephan Opitz, Member of the Management Committee, KfW Development Bank, speaks during Session 8: Public Development Banks: making global public finance nature positive at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022.

Viviana Figueroa of the Omaguaca peoples of Argentina and member of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) addresses the audience during the Leaders Dialogue III: Growing a global movement for nature-positive agriculture at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022. 

Beatrice Atim Anywar, Minister of State for Environment of Uganda speaks at an invitation-only meeting during the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022 while Marco Lambertini, Director General of WWF International and Gilles Kleitz. Executive Director Sustainable Development for Agence Française de Développement (AFD) listen.

Leaders Dialogue IV: Ushering in a more resilient future: the way forward for nature and finance panel at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022 including Patrick Odier,
Senior Managing Partner, Lombard Odier Group, Vian Sharif, Head of Sustainability, Nature Alpha, FNZ Group, Robyn Seetal, Founder, IkTaar Sustanability; Sébastien Soleille, Global Head of Energy Transition and Environment, Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP Paribas); Jonas Von Oldenskiöld, Head of Korea Branch, Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd (Swiss Re), and moderator Jennifer Moon, Editor-in-Chief of News for Arirang TV.

Session 13: From Red List to A-list: Effective species conservation actions at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022 included Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Stephen Browne, Do Soon Cho, Amy Dickman, Byoung-Hee Lee, Stewart Maginnis, Maria von Weissenberg and Jane Smart. 

Nancy Tembo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Malawi speaks during Leaders dialogue I: Nurturing a long-term vision for nature in uncertain times at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022. 

Vian Sharif, Head of Sustainability with Nature Alpha, FNZ Group speaks with Thomas Maddox, Global Director, Forest & Land with CDP during Session-10: How to measure, manage, and disclose risk in nature of the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022. 

Jasmine Nguyen, Mayor of Brimbank City in Australia shares a laugh with panelists during Session 11: Realising the urban opportunity: Cities as drivers of nature-positive development at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022. 

Filip KoprÄina, Founder and CEO Energy Shift makes his pitch at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022. 

Sebrine Chennaoui, CEO of Monsapo in Tunesia makes her pitch during the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022. 

Changemakers from around the world posed for a group photo with panelists after the second pitch session during the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022. Clockwise from back left: Hua Jie Toh, Sabrine Chennaoui, Federico Perez, Edward Cunningham, Valérie D'Hoedt Meyer, Adrian Leitoro, Melina Sakiyama, Raeed Roshan Ali, Saed Hanani, Filip Kopräina, Jeremiah Thoronka, Vriko Yu, and Lalita Purbhoo-Junggee. 

Robyn Seetal, Founder of IkTaar Sustainability speaks during the Leaders Dialogue IV: Ushering in a more resilient future: the way forward for nature and finance at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022 while Sébastien Soleille, Global Head of Energy Transition and Environment with Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP Paribas) and Jonas Von Oldenskiöld, Head of Korea Branch of Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd (Swiss Re) listen. 

Eddie Andrews speaks on the panel of Session 9: Building a net-zero, nature-positive world: Tackling the climate and biodiversity crises at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022.

Waleed Aldayel, Chief of Strategy & E-PMO of the The Royal Commission for AlUla speaks during the seminar Restoring the Past for the Future - Challenges, Opportunities, and the Path Forward at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022. 

John Tobin-de la Puente speaks during Session 3: Rethinking policy: The role of regulatory frameworks for nature-positive economies at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022.

Takeshi Harada, Member of the Board of Directors, Development Bank of Japan, Inc. speaks during Session 8: Public Development Banks: making global public finance nature positive of the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022. 

Karen Westley, Vice President for Carbon, Environment & Downstream Safety, Environment and Asset Management, Shell speaks at Session 6: Can the energy sector be nature-positive? at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022.

Mark Johnston, Chair of the IUCN CEM Working group on Nature Positive, BP; Seong Nyeoh Lee, Vice President of the ESG Strategic Planning and Management Department, SK ecoplant; Eoin Murray, Head of Investment, Federated Hermes Limited; Keiji Nishizawa, Director-Chairman, Sompo Japan Insurance Inc; Sébastien Soleille, Global Head of Energy Transition and Environment, Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP Paribas); Helen Temple, Chief Executive, The Biodiversity Consultancy participate in Session 1: Nature-positive: Leaders' roundtable at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022. 

SungAh Lee, IUCN Deputy Director General - Corporate Services, speaks during Session 2: Provinces and Regions for Nature: towards a new Nature Province Partnership at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022. 

Jinyoung Park of the National Institute of Ecology, Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea speaks about Korea's additions to the IUCN Contributions for Nature Platform during the event to launch the platform at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022. 

Participants at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022

Participants at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022.

Musicians performed traditional music during the welcome reception and dinner at the IUCN Leaders Forum Jeju 2022.