14:30 - 16:15

Luke Poliszcuk (Japan)
Chief Executive Officer - eQualC Sustainability Communications, 合同会社eQualC

Douglas Woodring (People's Republic of China)
Co-Founder and Director - Project Kaisei

Collaboration Building for a Global Environmental Cause

Project Kaisei ("Ocean Planet" in Japanese), is based in Hong Kong and San Francisco, and was set up in 2009 to address the issue of plastic waste in our ocean, mainly in the North Pacific Gyre, an area some say is twice the size of Texas. Our August 2009 expedition, in collaboration with Scripps Oceanography, sent two research teams to study the impact and scale of the plastic in the ocean, how it affects the ecosystem and potentially the food chain, and how it can be cleaned up. Project Kaisei is a collaboration of science, innovation, technology, industry, policy and education, all coming together to solve both the issue in the ocean, but also to address how we can change the way we consume and use plastic on land. Donors in the project have come from the US, Europe and Asia, and see value in being part of a global cause that is using new types of technology to both spread the word, and seek innovative solutions. By bringing new media platforms together with sponsors and a cause, both are likely to achieve more exposure, and thus, more impact in achieving the goal of motivating change and improvement.

Satoshi Nimura (Japan)
President - Nimura Genetic Solutions Co., Ltd.

Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) in Bio Prospecting

This presentation aims to show an example of how private companies can build a responsible bio diversity business in conformity with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), furthering the co-existence of developing and developed countries.

Under the agreements with public research organizations in the resource countries like Malaysia and Bhutan, and under R&D agreements with private industries in developed countries, Nimura Genetic Solutions (NGS), a leading bio prospecting firm, has built an innovative business model to discover commercially profitable and beneficial bio resources derived from the rainforests of Malaysia and the highlands of Bhutan, while fully complying with CBD, in order to protect biological diversity and respect ownership rights of the resource countries, create local employments, accelerate biological technology transfer and share business profits and intellectual property rights with resource countries.

NGS is currently negotiating with other bio resource rich nations in the Pacific Rim, Africa and South Africa to apply this unique business model.

Chiew Y. Chong (Switzerland )
Managing Director - WWF / Living Planet Fund Management Company S.A.

Saving Biodiversity - A Roadmap for a Living Planet

Two major indicators developed by WWF - the Living Planet Index and the Ecological Footprint - clearly show the major challenges we face. Learn what are these challenges and WWF's responses to conserving some of the Earth's most important species.

Michael V. Galante (Germany)
Global Conservation Standard Administrator - Global Conservation Standard Oversight Organization

The Global Conservation Standard (GCS): An Emerging Standard

1) Structure and function of the Global Conservation Standard (GCS);
2) GCS Mechanics and "Conservation Credit Units (GCUs);
3) CSR and the financing of GCUs;
4) Current status and project lists of the GCS.