The expert panel will address opportunities and thorny issues in converting to action the “nature” recommendations of the Scientists’ Warning paper:
• Habitat restoration, including coastlines – levering the 2021-2030 UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration as we plan for climate adaptation and a new economy;
• Habitat conservation, especially carbon-rich forests, savannas and grasslands, wetlands, peatlands – calling land transformation in virgin habitats to a halt well before 2030
• What this means for urban settlements, society, and resilient/green economic recovery – densification and diversification of land uses on already transformed land.
• Increasing wildfires - their intersection with biodiversity and ecosystem health, human health and well-being, and the climate.
In the World Scientists Warning of a Climate Emergency published on 5 November 2019 the following recommendation for "Nature" was made:
"We must protect and restore Earth’s ecosystems. Phytoplankton, coral reefs, forests, savannas, grasslands, wetlands, peatlands, soils, mangroves, and sea grasses contribute greatly to sequestration of atmospheric CO2. Marine and terrestrial plants, animals, and microorganisms play significant roles in carbon and nutrient cycling and storage. We need to quickly curtail habitat and biodiversity loss (figure 1f–1g), protecting the remaining primary and intact forests, especially those with high carbon stores and other forests with the capacity to rapidly sequester carbon (proforestation), while increasing reforestation and afforestation where appropriate at enormous scales. Although available land may be limiting in places, up to a third of emissions reductions needed by 2030 for the Paris agreement (less than 2°C) could be obtained with these natural climate solutions (Griscom et al. 2017)."
The expert panel:
Prof. Phoebe Barnard
Prof. Chris Rhodes
Dr. Amis

Prof. Phoebe Barnard
Phoebe is a board member of Scientists Warning Europe. Phoebe is chief science and policy officer at the Conservation Biology Institute, and affiliate full professor at the University of Washington.
Phoebe has 26 years of deep experience on three continents, mainly in Africa, North America and Europe - founding and running national and bioregional programs, and helping to steer global ones.
Phoebe is fueled by her core co-authorship of the World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency and her work to implement its six recommendations.
Phoebe and her filmmaker husband John Bowey also work through film to tell compelling and powerful stories about ecosystem health, biodiversity, and climate ([ Ссылка ] and [ Ссылка ]).

Prof. Chris Rapley
Chris is a member of Scientists Warning Europe's Scientific Advisory Panel.

He is professor of Climate Science at University College London. He is a Fellow of UCL and of St Edmund's College Cambridge, a member of the Academia Europaea, Chair-elect of the European Science Foundation’s European Space Sciences Committee, Member of the Advisory Board of the UK government’s Clean Growth Fund, a member of the UK Science Museum Group’s Science Advisory Board and a member of the UK Parliamentary and Scientific Committee. His previous posts include Director of the Science Museum, Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Chairman of the London Climate Change Partnership, President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, and Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
More recently he has focused on the role of climate scientists in delivering value to society through decision making, public policy and more effective communication. He is Chair of the UCL Policy Commission on Communicating Climate Science. More recently Prof Rapley was the Science Consultant on BBC1’s ‘Climate Change – The Facts’ presented by Sir David Attenborough.
In 2003 Prof Rapley was appointed CBE by Her Majesty the Queen.

Dr Amis
Dr Amis is the co-founder and Executive Director of the African Centre for a Green Economy (AfriCGE) and Adjunct Associate Professor, at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town. AfriCGE is a non-profit think thank and capacity building organisation based in South Africa. Prior to founding AfriCGE, Dr. Amis worked as programme Manager for WWF South Africa. Dr Amis has extensive experience on Green Growth issues in Africa and has consulted and collaborated with various organisations such as IFPRI, the New Economics Foundation (NEF), CORAF, and others. He is currently leading a project to establish the first new economy innovation hub in South Africa.

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