The Future of Earth and Biodiversity Week
Preserving natural capital
Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition
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Agenda2025
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2025.09.19[Fri]
10:00 ～ 12:00
(Venue Open 09:30)
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- Theme Weeks Studio
Programme details
The programme, together with the General Sponsors, explores: 'What additional perspectives should be added to the global discussion on biodiversity beyond 2030?'
Cast
Moderator
Yukari Takamura
Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo
Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo
After graduating in Law at Kyoto University and receiving Master of Laws (Public International Law) from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, she was appointed Associate Professor at Shizuoka University. Before joining the University of Tokyo in 2018, she worked as Professor at Ryukoku University, Kyoto, and Professor at Nagoya University, Japan. She also studied at Graduate School of University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), France and was Visiting Researcher at University of London, U.K.
Specializing in international law and environmental law, her research focuses on legal and governance issues relating to multilateral environmental agreements as well as climate and energy laws and policies.
She serves as member of governmental advisory bodies, among others, Central Environment Council as President and Environment Council of Tokyo Metropolitan Government as President. She is also member of the Sustainability Standards Board of Japan (SSBJ) and member of the Advisory Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). She served as Vice President of Science Council of Japan (2020 - 2023) and as Chair of Procurement Price Calculation Committee for Feed-in Tariff Scheme for Renewable Energy (2021-2024). She received Environmental Conservation Merit’s Minister of the Environment Award in 2018.
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Noriko Rzonca
COSMO ENERGY HOLDINGS CO., LTD. Chief Digital Officer, Ph.D.
Noriko earned her Ph.D. in Psychology in the U.S., specializing in research and evaluation methodology.
She began her career as a senior analyst at a U.S. insurance company, working on statistical pricing in the Actuarial R&D Dept.
In 2006, she returned to Tokyo and joined a financial institution, establishing internal analytical consulting teams and providing business analytics support across departments.
After gaining experience in customer, product, and risk-related analytics at several foreign-affiliated financial institutions, she joined Cosmo Energy Holdings in 2021 as Chief Digital Officer. She currently spearheads change management and digital business transformation, while chairing the COSMO Eco Fund.
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Ryosuke Mizouchi
Advisor, Kirin Holdings Co. Ltd.
Chief Sustainability Officer of Kirin Group from 2017 to 2024. Joined Kirin in 1982 and experienced in marketing insights and overseas businesses. Currently also a member of The Nourinchukin Bank Sustainability Advisory Board, and a member of Japanese National Commission for UNESCO. MBA, Sloan School of Management, MIT (1988), and BA, Economics, Hitotsubashi University (1982).
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Ana Maria Hernandez Salgar
International consultant
Internationalist from Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (Colombia). 28 years of expertise in international environmental law, international negotiation on biodiversity, and science-policy interface, with several publications about policy and legislation on biodiversity. Experience as researcher in the Policy and Legislation Program of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute; Head of the Office of International Affairs of the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development of Colombia; Executive Director of NaturaCert Foundation; and Head of the international affairs, policy and cooperation Office at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute. Also, professor at the Rosario University and Javeriana University.
To date, more than two decades of experience in the framework of multilateral environmental, regional, and binational agreements. Colombian governmental negotiator to the Convention on Biological Diversity and to the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, IPBES. Representative of Latin America and the Caribbean (GRULAC) to different bureau of environmental treaties such as the United Nations Convention against Desertification and Drought (UNCCD), the SPAW protocol of the Cartagena Convention and IPBES.
Chair of IPBES from May 2019 to September 2023.
Senior advisor to CBD COP16 presidency (Colombia). February 2024 – January 2025.
Member of the advisory board of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration from 2021 to 2023.
Awarded as environmental personality of the year by El Espectador Newspaper in 2019, by the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in 2020, and by Ecovidrio Awards in 2022.
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The Future of Earth and Biodiversity Week
Preserving natural capital
-
2025.09.19[Fri]
10:00～12:00
(Venue Open 09:30)
- Theme Weeks Studio
- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
Reservations are required for this programme.
Booking is available from the 2-month advance draw. Please check the site below for the timing of the booking start.
Please note that bookings may not be available due to the status.
For more information about making a reservation to watch a programme.
This programme is scheduled to be live streamed at the Virtual Expo. We will inform you once it is confirmed.
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The Future of Earth and Biodiversity Week
