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Speaker: Izabella Teixeira, Co-Chair of the International Resource Panel, United National Environment Programme
Moderated by: Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Chair, Brazil Studies Program – DRCLAS; Faculty Affiliate, Center for International Development at Harvard University. Roberto S. Waack, Chair of the Board, Instituto Arapyaú
Join us for a broad discussion with Izabella Teixeira on topics such as the challenges and opportunities of the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COPs) meetings for climate and biodiversity, worldwide natural resource management, and Brazil’s potential for generating sustainable solutions. Dr. Teixeira, who served as Brazil's Minister of the Environment (2010-16), is one of the foremost global authorities on climate change. Many of her views on contemporary Brazil are expressed in the recently published book “Inquietações de um Brasil contemporâneo: Desafio das Eras Climáticas, Digital-tecnológica e Biológica” (in English: “Concerns of Contemporary Brazil: Challenges of the Climate, Digital-Technological, and Biological Ages”). This book was developed under the Instituto Arapyáu Fellowship program and will soon be published in English.
Izabella Teixeira is the co-chair of the United Nations Environment Programme's International Resource Panel (IRP/UNEP) and a member of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) High-Level Advisory Board. During her tenure as Brazil's Minister of the Environment (2010-2016), Dr Teixeira played a pivotal role in the negotiations of the Nagoya Protocol, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Minamata Convention, and the Paris Agreement. In 2012, she was appointed to serve on the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons to develop what became the 2030 Agenda. In 2013, she received the United Nations Environment Programme's "Champions of the Earth" Global Award in the Political Leadership category, acknowledging her outstanding contribution to reducing deforestation in the Amazon and environmental leadership. She has been instrumental to several important international agreements and has served dozens of national, multinational, and civil society bodies. Dr Teixeira holds a B.Sc. in Biological Sciences from the University of Brasília, and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Energy Planning from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Marcia Castro is Andelot Professor of Demography, Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Chair of the Brazil Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), and a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the development and use of multidisciplinary approaches to identify the determinants of infectious disease transmission in different ecological settings to inform control policies. She has more than 15 years of collaboration with Brazilian researchers, Health Secretariats, and the Ministry of Health particularly related to infectious diseases. She made important contributions during recent public health emergencies (the Zika virus epidemic and the COVD-19 pandemic). Castro has projects on malaria, COVID-19, arboviruses, infant/child mortality and development, and climate change in the Brazilian Amazon. Specifically, on COVID-19 she has been assessing the spatiotemporal pattern of COVID-19 spread in Brazil, mortality, and fertility changes due to the pandemic, risk factors for mortality, and vaccine effectiveness. She serves on several advisory boards in Brazil, including the Institute for the Studies of Health Policies (IEPS), the Science Center for Early Childhood (NCPI), and Instituto Todos Pela Saúde (ITpS). She earned a PhD in Demography from Princeton University.
Roberto S. Waack serves on the boards of Marfrig, Wise Plásticos, Synergia, and the Arapyaú Institute, where he holds the position of Chairman. Additionally, he is a co-founder and a member of the strategic governance nuclei of the Brazil Climate, Forests, and Agriculture Coalition and the Concertation for the Amazon movement. He also serves as a visiting fellow at Chatham House in London and is a member of the Sustainability Committee at SuperBid. Throughout his career, Roberto has held various leadership roles, including CEO of the Renova Foundation, founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Amata S.A. (a forestry company in the Amazon, where he remains a shareholder), CEO of Orsa Florestal, Chairman of the International Board of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), and a member of the International Board of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the National Biodiversity Fund (Funbio), and the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC), among other civil society organizations. Mr Waack is a biologist, holds a master's degree in Business Administration, and is a co-author of the recently published book with Dr Izabella Teixeira.
Presented in collaboration with the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, the Center for International Development, the Belfer Center Environment and Natural Resources Program and Instituto Arapyaú