Stockholm+49 Summit - Make 2022 a Game-Changer DAY 1

Keynote Speakers sessions
Opening remarks: 5 Keynote Speakers

Moderators: Helena Lindemark and Stanley Nyoni

2:00-2:50pm (CET)

Opening remarks from Inger Andersen - Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme

Maria Fernanda Espinosa - President of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly and former Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Johan Rockström - Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam

Johanna Lissinger Peitz - Ambassador for Stockholm +50 and Senior Advisor at the Ministry of the Environment/Swedish Government Offices



Theme Interventions with Q&A Session

Moderators: Helena Lindemark and Stanley Nyoni

2:50-4:15pm (CET)

1. Science of urgency

Will Steffen – Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University; Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre

2. The role of Law in the Anthropocene

Louis Kotzé - Research Professor of Law at the North-West University, South Africa

Makane Moise Mbengue - Professor of International Law at the University of Geneva

3. Regulation Economy/Building for a Better Economy

Sandrine Dixson-Declѐve - Co-President of the Club of Rome


4. Institutions of Global Environment Governance

Izabella Teixeira - Co-Chair of the United Nations Environment Programme’s International Resource Panel and former Minister for the Environment of Brazil

15 min Q&A Session and short discussion on the CSO Draft Declaration



4:15pm (CET) Coffee Break / 5 min

Google Forms available to the participants and video projection



Round Table with Q&A Session

Moderator: Lionel Chami

4:20pm-5:30pm (CET)

Common thread: What is missing or failing to comply and enforce international environmental law?

Najat Saliba - Professor in Chemistry at the American University of Beirut; co-executive director of Khaddit Beirut and the Director and founder of the Environment Academy

Jan van de Venis – Human Rights and Rights of Nature Lawyer at JustLaw; chairman of the board of Stand Up For Your Rights, The Crowd Versus and National Park Dunes of Texel and acting Ombudsperson for Future Generations

Tzeporah Berman - Chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative and the international program director of Stand.Earth

Paulo Magalhães – Founder and Director of Common Home of Humanity; Jurist and researcher at CIJE- Center for Legal and Economic Research - University of Porto

10 min Q&A Session

End of Day 1