10th Eastern Himalayan Naturenomics™ Forum

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10th Eastern Himalayan Naturenomics^TM Forum in Bangladesh

The Eastern Himalayan region unites some of the fastest growing global and developing economies today, with young and ambitious populations increasingly concerned about their ecological future:

India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, China & Myanmar. Its shared challenges and opportunities and its shared ecosystems, stretched across rivers, mountains and forests, highlight the need for the region to pool its interests, share resources and cooperate on the international stage to drive attention and support for adaptation & mitigation both upstream and downstream in the region.

The Forum 2022 in Dhaka will focus on how Bangladesh and the Eastern Himalayas can make most of this opportunity through

Integration of interdependence of Ecology and Economy
Social, Economic, Environment and Enhanced Climate Resilience through the Delta Plan for development
Valuation of Natural Assets
Transboundary Ecological Diplomacy

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MAIN AUDITORIUM

GALLERY I

GALLERY II

GALLERY III

From 15:00 to 15:10

CURTAIN RAISER: 10TH EASTERN HIMALAYAN NATURENOMICSTM FORUM 2022 - ‘ECOLOGY IS ECONOMY’

Welcome Remarks : Tanweer Hasan, PhD – Vice Chancellor, IUB

Tanweer Hasan, PhD

Vice Chancellor, IUB

From 15:15 to 15:45

REMEMBERING BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN - 50 YEARS OF MUJIB

Transforming the Narrative of Climate Change - The ‘Mujib Climate Prosperity Plan Decade 2030’ and Delta Plan – 2100

H.E Professor Dr. Gowher Rizvi

International Affairs Advisor to the Honorable Prime Minister (tentative)

Guest of Honour

H.E. Saber Hossain Chowdhury, MP

Honorable Chair of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Climate Change, Bangladesh Parliament

Guest of Honour

H.E. Shyam Saran

Former Foreign Secretary of India and Prime Minister’s Special Envoy For Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change

From 15:45 to 16:00

REFLECTIONS ON COP27 : LEARNINGS FOR THE EASTERN HIMALYAS

Professor A. K. Enamul Haque

Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics, East West University, Bangladesh

From 16:00 to 16:15

RABINDRANATH BARTHAKUR MEMORIAL LECTURE

Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta

Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

From 16:15 to 16:40

MEET & GREET

From 16:40 to 16:50

THE SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

From 16:50 to 18:20

HONOURING & CELEBRATING OUR EASTERN HIMALAYAN HEROES

Rural Futures Rewilding Award
NaturenomicsTM Award
Green Legal/Journalist Award
Green Guru Award
Young Naturalist Award
Food for the Future Award
Forests Guards & Rangers Award
Latifur Rahman NaturenomicsTM Award
Global NaturenomicsTM Puroskar
Lifetime Service Award

From 18:20 to 18:30

COLOURS OF BANGLADESH

18:30

FOLLOWED BY HIGH – TEA

From 9:30 to 10:00

REGISTRATION

From 10:00 to 11:00

THE JOURNEY OF EASTERN HIMALAYAN NATURENOMICSTM FORUM : 10 YEARS

LEADERSHIP ADDRESS : UNDERSTANDING THE ECONOMICS OF BIODIVERSITY

Sir Partha Dasgupta

Frank Ramsey Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of cambridge, UK

Lord Nicholas Stern

Chair, Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics, UK

H.E. Shyam Saran

Former Foreign Secretary of India and Prime Minister’s Special Envoy For Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change, India

From 11:05 to 11:25

LEADERSHIP ADDRESS – ECOLOGY IS ECONOMY [ Part – I ]

Ram Madhav

Academic Director, India Foundation, India

S. Ramadorai

Chairperson, Governing Board of TISS, India

Chanakya Chaudhury

Vice President Corporate Services, Tata Steel

From 11:30 to 11:45

REFRESHMENT

From 11:45 to 12:45

LEADERSHIP ADDRESS – ECOLOGY IS ECONOMY

Tariq A Karim, Director

Centre for Bay of Bengal Studies

Chief Guest

Salman F Rahman

Private Industry and Investment Adviser to Honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh (tentative)

In Conversation with

Guest of Honour:

Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma

Honorable Chief Minister of Assam, India (tentative)

Dr. Farhina Ahmed

Secretary, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Bangladesh

Ambassador Pranay Verma

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh

His Excellency Robert Chatterton Dickson

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh

Ambassador Mr. Ghanshyam Bhandari

Ambassador of Nepal to Bangladesh (tentative)

From 12:55 to 13:30

ENDING THE ECONOMIC INVISIBILITY OF NATURE

Syeda Rizwana Hasan

Chief Executive, Bangladesh Environment Lawyers Association, Bangladesh

In Conversation with

Vandana Shiva

Founder Navdanya, India

VIEWS : RECONSTRUCTING THE DECONSTRUCTED: REESTABLISHING THE ECONOMY-ECOLOGY RELATIONSHIP

Dr. Saleemul Huq

Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Bangladesh

From 13:30 to 14:15

LUNCH & NETWORKING

From 14:30 to 15:20

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL - MAIN AUDITORIUM

Saurav Malhotra

CEO, Balipara Foundation

In conversation with

Jason Knauf

Global Leadership Fellow Conservation International

Richard Jeo

Asia Pacific Region, Conservation International

Meizani Irmadhiany

Senior Vice President & Executive Chair, Conservation International

From 14:30 to 15:20

NET ZERO, NATURE POSITIVE ECONOMY - GALLERY I

Mohammad Zaved

Akhtar, CEO & Managing Director, Unilever

In Conversation with

Runa Khan

Executive Director, Friendship NGO

Vivek Pathak

Global Head & Director of Climate Business, International Finance Corporation, USA

Sourav Roy

CEO - Tata Steel Foundation

Shalini Goyal Bhalla

Managing Director,International Council for Circular
Friendship NGO

From 14:30 to 15:20

LANDSCAPES, LIVELIHOOD AND CONSERVATION - GALLERY II

Rajkamal Goswami

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, India

In Conversation with

A S Moniruzzaman Khan

Programme Head Climate Change Programme BRAC, Bangladesh

Amba Jamir

Integrated Mountain Initiative Kinzone Bhutia

Dr. Vincent Darlong

From 14:30 to 15:20

ENERGY SECURITY AND TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION - GALLERY III

Session by FICCI

From 15:30 to 16:25

REWILDING THE EASTERN HIMALAYAS - MAIN AUDITORIUM

Raquibul Amin

Country Representive, IUCN Bangladesh

Guest of Honour

Shri.James Pangsang Kongkal Sangma

Honourable Minister Incharge of Forests & Environment, Meghalaya, India

Sonam Tobgay

Chief Forestry Officer, Ministry of Agriculture & Forests, Royal Govt. of Bhutan.

Ruchika Singh

World Resources Institute, India

From 15:30 to 16:25

TECHNOLOGY FOR PARTICIPATORY NATURAL ASSET MANAGEMENT - GALLERY I

Ibrahim Hafeezur Rehman

CEO, VITO Arabia Science and Technology LLC, Belgium

S. Ramadorai

Former CEO & MD, Tata Consultancy Services, India

Michael Anthony

Managing Director, Earth Analytics

From 15:30 to 16:25

BAMBOO FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: INTEGRATING BAMBOO INTO CARBON MARKETS - GALLERY II

Kamesh Salam

Founder & CEO – South Asia Bamboo Foundation

Director General of Bangladesh Forest Research Institute

Mukhopadhaya

Senior Visiting fellow, Centre for Policy Research India, India

Continued Session ....

16:25 to 16:45

REFRESHMENT

16:30 to 17:20

LEADERSHIP ADDRESS: VALUING NATURAL ASSETS - MAIN AUDITORIUM

Dr. Ashok Khosla

Chairman, Development Alternatives, India

Professor Partha P. Dasgupta

Frank Ramsey Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge

Amitabh Kant

G20 Sherpa, India

Junaid Ahmad

Vice President, Operations, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency of the World Bank Group, USA

16:30 to 17:20

REWILDING FORESTS & AGRICULTURAL LANDS FROM SNOWLINE TO THE SEALINE - GALLERY I

Reva Malhotra

Dr. Vandana Shiva

Food Sovereignty Leader, Navdanya
BRAC, Bangladesh

Neelam Dutta

Pabhoigreens, India

Joanna Dawson

Rural Futures, Anthropological Visioner

16:30 to 17:20

BAMBOO FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: INTEGRATING BAMBOO INTO CARBON MARKETS - GALLERY II

Kamesh Salam

Founder & CEO – South Asia Bamboo Foundation
Director General of Bangladesh Forest Research Institute

Gautam Mukhopadhaya

Senior Visiting fellow, Centre for Policy Research India, India

Reforestation projects can be rewarded for ‘offsetting’ carbon, providing a possibly lucrative source of income to the project developers. Aimed at project developers and government actors, the session will discuss inclusion of bamboo forestry projects in carbon offset schemes.

From 10:00 to 11:15

SETTING THE CONTEXT – ECOLOGY THE NEW DIPLOMATIC FRONTIER FOR CROSS-BORDER ACTION

From 12:55 to 13:30

LEADERSHIP ADDRESS : UNDERSTANDING THE ECONOMICS OF BIODIVERSITY

Dr. AK Abdul Momen

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh (tentative)

Ambassador Mashfee Shams,

Secretary (East), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh

From 11:15 to 11:30

VIDEO STORY : TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION

From 11:30 to 11:45

REFRESHMENT

From 12:00 to 13:00

MOBILITY TECHNOLOGY TO SECURITIZE GLOBAL CARBON - MAIN AUDITORIUM

Shailesh Chandra

Managing Director, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Limited and Tata Passenger Electric Mobility Limited

Abdul Matlub Ahmad

Chairman Nitol Niloy Group Bangladesh

Vivek Srivastava

Head-Marketing, Passenger Vehicle Business Unit,Tata Motors

From 12:00 to 13:00

CLIMATE CHANGE - DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS ON SUNDERBANS - GALLERY I

Bittu Sahgal

Founder, Sanctuary Nature Foundation, India

Prof. Shamsul Alam

Ministry of State for Planning,Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh

Runa Khan

Executive Director, Friendship NGO

Dr. Monirul H. Khan

Professor of Zoology, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh

Prof. Mizan R. Khan

Deputy Director, ICCCAD, Bangladesh

From 12:00 to 13:00

CORVI RISK PROFILE : CHATTOGRAM, BANGLADESH – A HOLISTIC BASED ASSESSMENT OF THE CLIMATE RISK FACING CHATTOGRAM - GALLERY II

The Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI) SPF, Japan Stimson Center, Washington, DC, USA

Canadian High Commission, Bangladesh

Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, Bangladesh

The Centre for Bay of Bengal Studies, (CBOBS) & Department of Economics, IUB

Chattogram City Corporation

From 13:00 to 13:30

DEMOGRAPHY AND ITS LINK TO ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSES - MAIN AUDITORIUM

Dr. Aisha Dasgupta

British High Commission, Nigeria

From 13:00 to 13:30

FOREST RESOURCES OF BANGLADESH : PRESENT STATUS, CHALLENGES AND RESEARCH GAPS - GALLERY I

Dr. Zabed Hossain

Department of Botany, University of Dhaka, Dhaka

From 13:00 to 13:30

REFLECTIONS AND LEARNINGS FROM COP 27 - GALLERY II

Anna Balance

Senior Climate Change & Environment Advisor British High Commission, Dhaka

From 13:30 to 14:15

LUNCH

From 14:30 to 15:25

ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND TECHNOLOGY–SCHNEIDER - MAIN AUDITORIUM

Zahir Ahmed

Director Sales, Schneider

Rohit Chashta

Deputy General Manager - Energy Efficiency & Sustainability · Schneider Electric

From 14:30 to 15:25

WELLBEING: BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION FOR HUMAN RESILIENCE - GALLERY I

Vasumathi Srikanth

Chief Operating Officer,PRISM Institute, Canada

Dr. Vibha Dhawan

Director General, The Energy & Resources Institute, India

Beth Allgood

Founder, One Nature, USA

Thobile Chittenden

Network Co-Lead, Wellbeing Economy Alliance, South Africa

BRAC

From 14:30 to 15:25

Bamboo for Livelihood, Economy & Environment - GALLERY II

Marc Peeters

BNV, Bamboo Tissue Culture, Jogjakarta, Indonesia

Susanth CS

Head, Centre for Bamboo Initiative, National Institute of Design

Sapool Boomserk

Former Director, Royal Thai Forest Department, Bangkok

David How

Oasis Coffins, Bangladesh

Siddarth Munot

Machau Bamboo Pvt. Ltd, Assam, India

From 15:30 to 16:45

RuFu Fellowship : Launch

Sweetlana Ranjan

Co-Founder, i-Behind The INK Foundation

Joanna Dawson

Rural Futures, Anthropological Visioner

From 15:30 to 16:45

EDUCATION : NEXT GENERATION ENVIRONMENT LEADERS - MAIN AUDITORIUM

Ashmita Sengupta

Fellow/Assistant Professor, Suri Sehgal Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, ATREE

Vamsidhar Pothula

Chief Operating Officer & Registrar Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)

Narayan Sharma

Cotton College

From 15:30 to 16:45

CONNECTING INDIA AND BANGLADESH IN THE FIELD OF GREEN BUSINESSES-SKILLS-JOBS - GALLERY I

Gen Arun Sahni

India

Shri Rajesh Aggarwal

Secretary Ministry of Skill Development Govt of India

Shi Sushil Kumar

Vice President and Global Head – Government Partnership. Tata Technologies Ltd.

From 16:45 to 17:30

YOUTH LEADERSHIP FOR POLICY REFORMATION AND HABITAT RESTORATION - MAIN AUDITORIUM

Hla Thoaiching Marma (Abu)

Community Resource Development Center (CRDC)

Basanti Chakma

Member of Parliament

Zeinorin Stephen Ankang

Founder and Chief Marketing Officer,Hill Wild Pvt Ltd, India

Afsara Binte Mirza

Junior Research Officer at International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)

Shoaib Mahmudul

Hoque

Rayhana Akter

Pallab Chakma

Executive Director, Kapaeeng Foundation

From 16:45-17:30

CASE STUDY : PLANT DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY COMPOSITION IN RELATION TO SOIL PROPERTIES - GALLERY I

Dr.Ataur Rahman

University of Dhaka

Dr.Abul Kashem

University of Dhaka

Dr.Zabed Hossain

Department of Botany University of Dhaka

From 16:45-17:30

BAMBOO TECHNICAL SESSION 2: BAMBOO SHELTER, TRADE INVESTMENT & PARTNERSHIPS GOALS - GALLERY II

Ar. Nirpal Adhikary

Nepal

Mr.Kevin Rowell

The Natural Builders, USA

Architect Tuan Manh Nguyen

Kecho Collective, Hanoi Vietnam

Mr. Daron Bauer

PLC, Canada

10th Eastern Himalayan Naturenomics™ Forum

10th Eastern Himalayan NaturenomicsTM Forum in Bangladesh

11TH DEC

SUNDAY

12TH DEC

MON

13TH DEC

TUES

CURTAIN RAISER: 10TH EASTERN HIMALAYAN NATURENOMICSTM FORUM 2022 - ‘ECOLOGY IS ECONOMY’

Speaker Details

Tanweer Hasan, PhD

REMEMBERING BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN - 50 YEARS OF MUJIB

Chief Guest

H.E Professor Dr. Gowher Rizvi

Guest of Honour

H.E. Saber Hossain Chowdhury, MP

Guest of Honour

H.E. Shyam Saran

REFLECTIONS ON COP27 : LEARNINGS FOR THE EASTERN HIMALYAS

Professor A. K. Enamul Haque

RABINDRANATH BARTHAKUR MEMORIAL LECTURE

Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta

MEET & GREET

THE SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

HONOURING & CELEBRATING OUR EASTERN HIMALAYAN HEROES

COLOURS OF BANGLADESH

FOLLOWED BY HIGH – TEA

REGISTRATION

THE JOURNEY OF EASTERN HIMALAYAN NATURENOMICSTM FORUM : 10 YEARS

In Conversation with

Sir Partha Dasgupta

Lord Nicholas Stern

H.E. Shyam Saran

LEADERSHIP ADDRESS – ECOLOGY IS ECONOMY [ Part – I ]

Ram Madhav

S. Ramadorai

Chanakya Chaudhury

REFRESHMENT

LEADERSHIP ADDRESS – ECOLOGY IS ECONOMY

Chair : Ambassador (Retd)

Tariq A Karim, Director

Chief Guest

Salman F Rahman

In Conversation with

Guest of Honour:

Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma

Dr. Farhina Ahmed

Ambassador Pranay Verma

His Excellency Robert Chatterton Dickson

Ambassador Mr. Ghanshyam Bhandari

ENDING THE ECONOMIC INVISIBILITY OF NATURE

Chair:

Syeda Rizwana Hasan

In Conversation with

Vandana Shiva

VIEWS : RECONSTRUCTING THE DECONSTRUCTED: REESTABLISHING THE ECONOMY-ECOLOGY RELATIONSHIP

Dr. Saleemul Huq

LUNCH & NETWORKING

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL - MAIN AUDITORIUM

Saurav Malhotra

In conversation with

Jason Knauf

Richard Jeo

Meizani Irmadhiany

NET ZERO, NATURE POSITIVE ECONOMY - GALLERY I

Chair:

Mohammad Zaved

In Conversation with

Runa Khan

Vivek Pathak

Sourav Roy

Shalini Goyal Bhalla

LANDSCAPES, LIVELIHOOD AND CONSERVATION - GALLERY II

Chair:

Rajkamal Goswami

In Conversation with

A S Moniruzzaman Khan

Amba Jamir

Dr. Vincent Darlong

ENERGY SECURITY AND TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION - GALLERY III

10th Eastern Himalayan Naturenomics^TM Forum in Bangladesh