OECD Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum 2025

High-level opening session

Jul 2, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Auditorium

Sustainable forest management Sustainable agriculture

Description

Ahead of COP30, the high-level opening session of this year’s Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum will explore how to harness the potential of forests and agriculture to advance climate action. The panel will provide a range of perspectives from governments, business and civil society on reducing GHG emissions from the agriculture, forest and other land-use sectors and enhancing their capacity as carbon sinks. This includes discussing opportunities and challenges related to policy design and implementation, data and measurement, and synergies and trade-offs across environmental goals.

Speakers

Mathias Cormann

OECD

Secretary-General

Anja Gassner

CIFOR-ICRAF

European director

Jack Hurd

Tropical Forest Alliance, World Economic Forum (WEF)

Executive Director

Hiroyuki Isono

Oji Holdings

CEO

Eric Lambin

Université Catholique de Louvain, Ishiyama Provostial Professorship at the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and the Woods Institute...

Professor

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