AWF at APAC: Day 1 - Monday 18th July 2022

OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONY

16:00pm-19:00pm (CAT) - KCC Auditorium

Africa’s Protected and Conserved areas – Sanctuaries for Biodiversity and Engines for Sustainable Development

1. Razan Al Mubarak (Pre-recorded video) – President of IUCN 
2. Kaddu Sebunya – African Wildlife Foundation CEO
3. Bruno Oberle - Director General, IUCN 
4. Dr. Edouard NGIRENTE, Rt. Hon. Prime Minister, Republic of Rwanda

Opening plenary panel moderated by Mohammed Valli Moosa, Deputy Chairperson of the Presidential Climate Commission, South Africa

Panelists:

1. Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe, Ethiopia
2. President Mahmadou Issoufou, Niger
3. Dr. Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya, Minister of Environment, Rwanda
4. Hon. Mohammed Abdullahi, Minister of Environment, Nigeria
5. Hon. Najib Balala, Minister of Tourism and Wildlife, Republic of Kenya

Discussants:

•  Former President of Botswana, H.E. Festus Mogae
• Tedros Ghebreyesus, Executive Director/WHO, Statement delivered by Dr. Theopista Kabuteni, WHO Country Rep for Rwanda

Short 3-minute interventions from (pre-recorded videos or in person) delivered after the keynote address

1. Monica Medina, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs of the United States
2. Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction
3. Inger Andersen, Executive Director UNEP

The Former Prime Minister of Ethiopia H.E. Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe will then preside over the soft launch of A Pan African Conservation Trust (A-PACT).