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9th World Forest Week

Ceremonia de entrega del Premio Wangari Maathai “Defensores de los Bosques” de la Asociación de Colaboración en materia de Bosques

Recepción del COFO y la Semana Forestal Mundial

Lunes 22 de julio 2024
19.30–21.00 CEST
TERRACE, 8TH FLOOR, BUILDING B, FAO HEADQUARTERS

Wangari Maathai tribute film

Se anunciará a la persona ganadora del Premio 2024 Wangari Maathai “Defensores de los Bosques” y se hará entrega del galardón durante la noche de la jornada de apertura de 27º período de sesiones del Comité Forestal de la FAO y la Semana Forestal Mundial 2024.

Ahora más que nunca, se necesitan defensores de los bosques para cumplir los Objetivos Forestales Mundiales y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible para 2030.

La edición de 2024 de este premio se centró específicamente en buscar a una persona defensora de los bosques con antecedentes en cualquiera de estas áreas: reducir la pérdida de bosques, aumentar la superficie forestal, incrementar el uso de productos madereros y no madereros cultivados de manera sostenible, contribuir a la creación de comunidades forestales resilientes, y mejorar los medios de vida y la participación de los jóvenes.

Se alentó especialmente a la presentación de solicitudes relacionadas con iniciativas de base comunitaria y lideradas por jóvenes.


Oradores

Master of Ceremony

Zhimin Wu
Director, FAO Forestry Division

Zhimin Wu

Discursos inaugurales

Maria Helena Semedo
Deputy Director-General, FAO

Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General, FAO

Announcement of winner

QU Dongyu
Director-General, FAO

QU Dongyu

Remarks on behalf of the jury

Ambassador Carla Barroso Carneiro
Permanent Representative of the Federative Republic of Brazil to FAO

Carla Barroso Carneiro

Winner acceptance remarks

2024 Wangari Maathai Forest Champion



2024-forest-champion

Reseña

The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) launched the first Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award in 2012 to honour and commemorate the impact of the late Kenyan environmentalist, who championed forest issues across the globe. Maathai was the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace in 2004.

Her Green Belt Movement is an environmental organization that empowers communities, and particularly women, to conserve the environment and improve livelihoods. The movement has also planted over 51 million trees in Kenya. This spirit is revived through the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030, which was launched with a rallying call for the protection and revival of ecosystems all around the world, for the benefit of people and nature.

Previous Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award winners are: the community forestry movement leader Narayan Kaji Shrestha (2012, Nepal); the environmental campaigner Martha Isabel ‘Pati’ Ruiz Corzo (2014, Mexico); the forestry activist Gertrude Kabusimbi Kenyangi (2015, Uganda); the forestry activist Maria Margarida Ribeiro da Silva (2017, Brazil); the forestry activist Léonidas Nzigiyimpa (2019, Burundi); and the activist and social forester Cécile Ndjebet (2022, Cameroon).