Thursday, January 27, 2022 - 8:30am to 3:00pm
9:00am to 10:30am
Introductory Remarks and Opening Keynote + Q&A
Introduction
Senior Research Scientist, Director, Program in Tropical Forestry and Agroforestry
Yale School of the Environment
Keynote
President
International Union of Forest Research Organizations
National Research Program Leader for International Science Issues
US Forest Service
The importance of integrative research for re-creating sustainable forest landscapes
10:30am to 11:00am
Day One Morning Break
11:00am to 12:30pm
Panel: Political Ecology and Tropical Forest Restoration
Panelists
Professor of Human Ecology
Rutgers University
Director of the Indigenous and Traditional Peoples Program
Conservation International
Director of Vital Landscapes
World Resources Institute
Moderator
Senior Lecturer
Yale School of the Environment
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Day One Lunch Break
2:00pm to 2:30pm
Global Capacity Gaps, Knowledge, and Learning Plan for the UN Decade on Restoration
Panelists
Professor Emerita, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
Research Professor, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast
Senior Project Manager, Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation
Wageningen University and Research
2:30pm to 3:30pm
Day One Breakout Session
Accelerating restoration incentive policies with a DEI lens in Latin America
Maggie Gonzalez (WRI), leader
Top issues in forest restoration faced by tropical ISTF Chapters
Sheila Ward (ISTF Global), leader
What does it take to build a Science Based Platform to Enable and Accelerate the Restoration of Earth’s Ecosystems?
Simeon Max (Restor), leader
Transformative Actions for Nature and People in Amazonian Countries: Possible halting and reversing the degradation of Amazon ecosystem
Claudia Ribeiro Pereira Nunes (Federal University of Amazon (Brasil) and Yale University), leader
Friday, January 28, 2022 - 8:30am to 3:00pm
9:00am to 10:30am
Panel: Research, Education, and Knowledge Exchange in Tropical Forest Restoration
Panelists
Professor of Environmental Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz
ICREA Research Professor
Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA)
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Managing Trustee, Junglescapes Charitable Trust
Director, Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)
Moderator
Program Director
Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative (ELTI)
10:30am to 11:00am
Day Two Morning Break
11:00am to 12:00pm
Day Two Breakout Session
Seed banking to address a major reforestation bottleneck
Jill Wagner (Terraformation), leader
National Landscape Restoration Strategy for Belize
Minerva Gonzalez (Belize Forest Department) and Ki’ila Salas, leaders
Evaluating restoration success and policy requirements in Latin America
Sergio Estrada Villegas & Ana Maria Aldana (Yale University & Universidad del Rosario), leaders
Implementing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) in ISTF-Global towards greater inclusion for forest restoration
Stephanie Chizmar (ISTF-NC State University), leader
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Day Two Lunch Break
1:30pm to 2:30pm
Middle Keynote + Q&A
Keynote Speaker
Vice President, Deputy Lead of the Forests Team
WWF
Losing sight of the forest for the trees: the need for an integrated approach that works for people, nature, and climate
2:30pm to 3:00pm
Innovation Prize Presentations + Q&A
Award
Saturday, January 29, 2022 - 8:30am to 3:00pm
8:30am to 9:00am
Day Three Open/Check-in Time
9:00am to 10:30am
Panel: Financing Forest Protection and Restoration
Panelists
Manager
EcoAgriculture Partners
Vice President, Markets
Emergent
Senior Adviser
Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)
Moderator
Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor in the Practice of Forest Resources Management and Policy, Yale School of the Environment
Co-Director of the Center for Business & the Environment at Yale and Director of the Research Program on Private Investment and the Environment at Yale
10:30am to 11:00am
Day Three Morning Break
11:00am to 12:15pm
Flash Talks
Flashtalks
Go to the playlist and click on the icon to show the playlist and choose a talk to play.
12:15pm to 1:30pm
Day Three Lunch Break
1:30pm to 2:30pm
Closing Keynote + Q&A
Keynote
Director, The Rome Centre for Sustainable Development
United Nations Development Programme
Why multilateralism matters in the Decade of Action and for the Restoration Agenda
2:30pm to 3:30pm
Announcement of Innovation Prize Winners and Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
Professor of Tropical Forest Ecology