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Prof. G. Raghuram, Director, IIMB and Prof. A. Damodaran, Faculty Member, IIMB & Chairperson, Technical Advisory Group, GoI-UNDP BIOFIN India, along with other delegates, light the ceremonial lamp to inaugurate the two-day Biodiversity Finance Plan (BIOFIN) International Workshop on ‘Sustainable Production and Consumption and Novel Economic Instruments for Biodiversity Conservation’, organized by IIMB on November 17, 2017.
Prof. A Damodaran, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion’s IPR Chair at IIM Bangalore, delivers the welcome address and introduces the speakers at the BIOFIN international workshop.
Dr. G. Raghuram, Director, IIMB, delivers a special address at the workshop. He said that we need to make the best use of economic, financial and market-based instruments to conserve biodiversity.
Dr. Rathin Roy, Member Economic Advisory Council & Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), discusses the relevance of biodiversity conservation at the workshop.
Markus Lehmann, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Montreal, lauds the Government of India’s role in funding biodiversity conservation initiatives.
Verena Linneweber, Deputy Country Director, United Nations Development Program, says that this conference should lead the way to productive exchange of best practices between representative countries.
Dr. Sujata Arora, Advisor, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change & National Focal Point, Convention on Biological Diversity, India, contextualizes the workshop from the Government of India perspective.
Onno van den Heuvel, Manager, Global BIOFIN Programme, focusses his talk on BIOFIN in India.
(L-R) Professor G. Raghuram, Director, IIM Bangalore; Prof. A Damodaran, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion’s IPR Chair at IIM Bangalore; Markus Lehmann, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Montreal; Onno van den Heuvel, Manager, Global BIOFIN Programme; Dr. Rathin Roy, Member, Economic Advisory Council & Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP); Dr. Sujata Arora, Advisor, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change & National Focal Point, Convention on Biological Diversity, India, and Verena Linneweber, Deputy Country Director, United Nations Development Program, at the BIOFIN workshop on Day 1.
(L-R): Tracey Cumming, BIOFIN Technical Advisor for African Region, UNDP; Markus Lehmann, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Montreal; Prof. A Damodaran, Chairperson, Technical Advisory Group, GoI-UNDP BIOFIN India Initiative and IIMB faculty; Dr. Rathin Roy, Member, Economic Advisory Council & Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), and Onno van den Heuvel, Manager, Global BIOFIN Programme, during Session 1 of the workshop, ‘Overview Session: Biodiversity Finance Initiative – Novel Economic Instruments and Sustainable Production and Consumption’. Dr. Rathin Roy and Onno van den Heuvel were the co-chairs of the discussion.
Lira Zholdubaeva, National BIOFIN Coordinator, UNDP, Kyrgyzstan; Muhktar Djumaliev, Adviser to the Minister of Economy, Member of PAGE team, Kyrgyzstan; Dr. J Soundrapandi, NBA/UNDP-India; Ngwang Gyeltshen, National BIOFIN Project Coordinator at UNDP, Bhutan; Dr. Rita Pandey, NIPFP, India, along with the co-chair of the session, Dr. David Meyers, UNDP Global BIOFIN Team and Dr. B. Meenakumari, Chairperson, National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), India, at the BIOFIN workshop at IIMB on November 17.
Abhishek Gupta, Assistant General Manager - Corporate Sustainability, Tata Chemicals Limited; Yrsaliev Bakyt, Deputy Director, Forestry Department, State Agency for Environment Protection and Forestry, Kyrgyzstan; Dr. Giridhar Kinhal, Former Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, India, and Markus Lehmann, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Montreal, during the session on ‘Landscape or Biome-based Approaches to Biodiversity Conservation - The State of Art’ of the workshop, on November 17.