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On the occasion of the Sustainable Development Festival organised by ASviS, which will be taking place from 22 September to 8 October 2020 throughout Italy and on internet, the Italian Union for Sustainable Palm Oil has organised an online event for 7 October.

The aim is to join with authoritative international experts to take an in-depth look at the global challenges and opportunities connected with the production and responsible consumption of palm oil and its contribution to achieving the SDGs, by protecting forests and biodiversity, boosting fair socio-economic development conditions in the global supply chain and providing a sustainable response to the growing need to feed the planet.

The event will be opened by Giuseppe Allocca, President of the Italian Union for Sustainable Palm Oil, and moderated by Giorgio Donegani, a food technologist and expert in nutrition and food education. The program will feature contributions from the world of academia, representatives of the main associations, and non-governmental organisations working for a sustainable development of the palm oil sector.

Sustainable nutrition, protection of forests and biodiversity, certification systems, socio-economic impacts of the palm oil supply chain and the role of consumers are just some of the issues that will be discussed by the experts involved.

SIMULTANEOUS ENGLISH / ITALIAN TRANSLATION IS PROVIDED
For more information message to ufficiostampa@oliodipalmasostenibile.it

 

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MODERATOR

Giorgio Donegani / Food technologist and expert in nutrition and food education

 

PROGRAMME

3:00 – 3:05 P.M. / INTRODUCTION

Giuseppe Allocca / President Unione Italiana per l’Olio di Palma Sostenibile

3:05 – 3:20 P.M. / KEYNOTE

Erik Meijaard / Professor, University of Queensland – Chair IUCN Oil Palm Task Force

3:20 – 3:40 P.M. / PALM OIL AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Davide Pettenella / Full Professor, University of Padua
Maria Vincenza Chiriacò / Researcher, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, CMCC
Inke van der Sluijs / Head of European Operations, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, RSPO

3:40 – 4:00 P.M. / NGOs 4 SUSTAINABLE PALM OIL

Michelle Desilets / Executive Director, Orangutan Land Trust
Marieke Leegwater / Palm Oil Expert & Sustainable Policy Development, Solidaridad
Babasola Olajide / Program Manager Palm Oil (NI-SCOPS), IDH The Sustainable Trade Initiative
Monica Tommasi / President, Amici della Terra

4:00 – 4:20 P.M. / PALM OIL AND SUSTAINABLE NUTRITION

Andrea Ghiselli, Laura Rossi / CREA, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics
Sebastiano Banni / Full Professor, University of Cagliari

4:20 – 4:45 P.M. / THE ROLE OF THE VALUE CHAIN, OF CONSUMERS AND GOVERNMENTS

Margot Logman / Secretary General, European Palm Oil Alliance, EPOA
Guendalina Graffigna / Full Professor, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza-Cremona
H.E. Gloria Isabel Ramírez Ríos / Ambassador of Colombia in Italy
Ministero Ambiente / Amsterdam Declaration Partnership (tbc)

4:45 – 5:00 P.M. / Conclusions

Giorgio Donegani

 

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