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Why did WWF engage in CBD COP-12?

WWF was instrumental in establishing biodiversity targets in 2010 at the CBD COP 10, in
Nagoya, Japan. At COP-12 WWF focused on strengthening language in commitments for
decisions at the COP, advocating for better implementation and helping to secure financing to
help achieve the 2020 Aichi biodiversity targets.
WWFs key objectives at COP-12:

To encourage positive decisions relating to financial flows for biodiversity

To secure a strong message from the CBD to integrate biodiversity into the UN
Sustainable Development Goals

To achieve improved linkages between biodiversity and climate change

To obtain stronger commitments and better approaches from governments on

ecosystem conservation and restoration, including marine areas

To showcase our work with government, academic, institutional, NGO and business
partners across a range of biodiversity and footprint programmes

To give our perspective and expertise to a variety of knowledge platforms and panels

To support WWF Korea to show its presence as part of a local to global network
Successful outcomes for WWF:
1.
Governments to take urgent actions to halt biodiversity loss: After
considerable language strengthening with new text proposed by WWF a series of measures and
actions was adopted to accelerate implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 20112020 and to achieve Aichi targets, through recognition of scale of issue in relation to the Global
Biodiversity Outlook and updated national biodiversity and action plans..
2. Finance for implementing the Strategic Plan/Aichi Targets: Developed countries
agreed to double international financial flows for biodiversity basing on the 2006-2010
baselines. WWF successfully advocated for final targets and capacity building.
3.
Integration of biodiversity into the Sustainable Development Goals: WWF
successfully advocated for integration of biodiversity and ecosystems into the United Nations
post 2015 development agenda.
4.
Marine and coastal biodiversity issues: COP acknowledged more than 150
ecologically or biologically significant marine areas in different parts of our worlds oceans.
WWF successfully prevented a concerted attempt at weakening - around 150 areas are now
accepted and there was no broad attack on the science.

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5.
Ecosystem conservation and restoration: COP recognized the contribution of
private protected areas, public and indigenous and local community managed areas, and
encouraged the private sector to protect biodiversity. Initially, this measure was focussed on the
terrestrial biome, so WWF suggested and successfully advocated for marine spatial planning
and restoration, and further, a monitoring system and recognition of the crucial role of
Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in protection of marine and terrestrial biodiversity.
6.
Biodiversity and climate change: In a politically charged atmosphere where some
parties were determined to prevent links between the UNFCCC and CBD, WWF successfully
requested the inclusion of guidance to be developed to both identify the positive and minimise
the negative impacts of climate change adaptation work on biodiversity and obtained language
to strengthen the links between biodiversity protection and climate change adaptation and
mitigation.
7.
Held eight successful side events on the Arctic, tigers, the Amazon GI and ARPA, West
Africa marine, Bhutan, monitoring, and the Yellow Sea.
8.
Key speaking roles at more than 10 events on issues ranging from Indigenous Peoples to
protected areas and business and biodiversity.
9.
Showcased a WWF Korea booth that was visited by the Minister of Environment, the
Governor of Pyeongchang and the CBD Executive Secretary.

After several months of preparation, capital level lobbying and two weeks of work on-site, WWF
made a significant and positive difference during the 12th meeting of the Conference of the
Parties at the Convention on Biological Diversity. We showcased notable examples of our work
with partners, provided expertise to many panels and side events on a variety of thematic,
programmatic and policy topics and our local country office ran a successful booth in the
exhibition tent.
WWFs delegation at CBD COP-12 was sought after for their technical and policy expertise on
many issues, including marine and coastal biodiversity, implementation of national action
plans, sustainable development goals and integration of conservation, ecosystem conservation
and restoration, monitoring, and impacts of climate change. Governments and partners
publicly praised WWFs many contributions and also privately shared positive feedback with
staff.
This report provides an overview of the WWF CBD COP-12 delegations achievements and
commentary on the good and challenging outcomes, as well as information about side events
and guest appearances.

Around 35 decision-making documents were considered by parties, each containing multiple

elements which could impact the ability of WWF to meet programme objectives, either by
hindering progress or not being strong enough to help. Our advocacy work consisted of a
small team of policy experts working together well in advance on WWF position
papers for 10 of these draft decision papers to suggest text to make them stronger or
introduce key concepts and changes. These WWF text suggestions were sent to governments in
every region and supported in some cases by capital-level lobbying. Our efforts were well
received by governments in Africa, Asia, Europe, Pacific and Latin America, and we were asked
if we could cover additional aspects of the COPdemonstrating WWFs ability to influence
policy decisions at the highest levels. As in other similar fora, WWFs role in helping to shape
global policy is invaluable, as many governments, and in particular in the south do not have the
capacity to invest in preparation for meetings such as CBD COP.
In Pyeongchang, our advocacy team consisted of about a dozen staff. Three were inside
government delegations: Malle Diagana in Mauritania, Alfred Ralifo in Fiji and Alexander

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(Sasha) Shestakov in Russia. Our staff spoke on behalf of those countries illustrating
WWFs role as a valued partner.
Other members of the team covered a wide range of languages and cultures, allowing us to
engage comfortably with Arabic, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, English and Russian
speaking delegations. WWF Korea ensured there was always at least one Korean member on
hand in case we needed urgent communications with the Korean COP Presidency, which proved
useful at several key moments.
Our priority areas of work included:

Ensuring a solid set of decisions around financial flows for biodiversity

Securing strong integration of biodiversity in sustainable development goals

Securing up to 160 marine areas with scientific descriptions of their biological

significance

Strengthening the efforts to maximize the linkages and joint efforts between the
Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change

Supporting Indigenous peoples in their bid to have the term Indigenous Peoples and
Local Communities formally recognised henceforth

Supporting the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing

Ensuring the results of the Global Biodiversity Outlook be used as a call for urgency to
accelerate work to achieve the Aichi targets (NOTE: In its messaging, WWF leveraged
findings from the 2014 Living Planet Report to beat this drum evenly more loudly)

Obtaining stronger commitments and better approaches from governments on

ecosystem conservation and restoration

Following are the related outcomes of the COP with an explanation of our influence on the
decisions.

After intense lobbying by WWF, Ministers and Heads of Delegation from around 170
countries unanimously called for biodiversity to be integrated and mainstreamed
into the post 2015 global, universal development agenda. This declaration had
initially only called for biodiversity to be 'included' in the development agenda. WWF staff
worked at the capital level, WWF Korea arranged a meeting with the Korean Presidency so we
could express our views, and the WWF delegation met with many governments. Our
arguments were convincing and parties understood there was a significant
difference between including biodiversity randomly in the development agenda
somewhere and strategically integrating biodiversity throughout each of the goals to
ensure an environmental, social and economic aspect to each. Many governments rallied to our
cause and began advocating with the same language, eventually neutralising those governments
who had invested time in aggressively weakening it.

Following various discussions, the outcome draft included a considerable amount of WWF text
calling for the integration of biodiversity across development agendas. Some governments
became alarmed this language had become too strong. However, the Pacific and African
states publicly defended WWFs text and we worked with the EU, Switzerland and others
to minimise attacks. Our Portuguese and Spanish speaking colleagues worked intensively with

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the governments raising concerns. Our positions were eventually accepted by the
governments in the final vote.

The fourth edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO4) document had been weakened
prior to the meeting by the removal of a key paragraph that summarised the parlous state of
biodiversity and called for accelerated action. The advocacy team learned which country was
responsible and then successfully lobbied governments from all political blocs to
reinsert it. The country in question eventually said they would not oppose reinsertion.
Governments have now agreed to take comprehensive and urgent measures necessary to ensure
the full implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and corresponding
national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs).

COP urged Parties that had not yet done so, to review, update and revise their national
biodiversity strategies and action plans in line with the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 20112020, to adopt indicators at the national level no later than October 2015, and to submit their
fifth national reports. COP also called for the provision of support for revising, updating and
implementing updated NBSAPs and capacity-building. WWF successfully asked for
NBSAPs to be realigned as quickly as possible to help accelerate implementation
of the Aichi targets and for this to be reflected in the resource mobilisation outcome.

ODA funding and related resource mobilisation was the most contentious and political
discussion for the CBD COP. At the previous COP in Hyderabad, targets for doubling of
funding by developed countries were agreed, but had remained provisional. WWF worked in a
strategic partnership with several other NGOs and a range of key governments to push for the
targets to be finalised. We also called for a range of other measures including for Parties to
enhance capacity building for mobilizing resources.
Parties agreed the Hyderabad resource mobilization targets were reaffirmed and
now agreed as final that developed countries agreed to double international
financial flows to developing countries by 2015 against the baseline of 2006-2010
expenditure. This also included additional financing requests for capacity
building. The decision also includes milestones for eliminating or phasing out incentives,
including subsidies that are harmful for biodiversity (WWF believes this strategically important
for reducing the pressure and associated costs on biodiversity).
In order to balance the resource mobilization burden, Parties agreed to also mobilize domestic
financial resources from all sources (in most countries, domestic resources form the substantial
part of biodiversity funding), in particular to reduce the gap on financing at national level to
effectively implement their respective NBSAPs.
On the guidance to the Global Environment Facility (GEF) as the financial mechanism of the
CBD WWF supported Parties request to enhance GEFs catalytic role in mobilizing
new and additional financial resources. Importantly Parties agreed to undertake an
additional financial needs assessment for the GEF-7 period 2018-2022 in the run up
to COP-13, which was pushed by WWF through high level contacts.
Unfortunately, the level of ambition of financial resources is still far from meeting the needs
that arise from the information provided by the results of the High Level Panel on resources
needed for the Aichi targets until 2020 so we need to continue to address this issue.

With regards to Marine and Coastal Biodiversity, WWF sincerely congratulates Parties on the
acknowledgement of more than 150 ecologically or biologically significant marine areas in

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different parts of our worlds oceansin areas within as well as beyond the jurisdiction of
coastal states. There were last minute attempts by some Mediterranean states to question the
science and reduce the initial number of 160 areas significantlyhowever, our WWF marine
experts and our three government delegates successfully prevented most of this
weakening - around 150 areas are now accepted and there was no broad attack on
the science. WWF network had previously contributed in a number of these
workshops where these areas were first described. Intense advocacy work at
SBSTTA-18 and prior to COP 12 also contributed to the success achieved.
In light of the increasing human impacts on our oceans, it is critical that Parties now develop
appropriate approaches and measures for these areas to ensure that the biodiversity and
ecosystem services contained therein are sustainably maintained, as already agreed under the
Achi Targets.
Finally, as the evidence for impacts of sound on marine life now is overwhelming, WWF
welcomes the progress that was made with Parties agreeing on a number of relevant and
required measures that need to be taken to minimize and mitigate impacts of anthropogenic
underwater noise and on priority actions to protect coral reefs and associated ecosystems.

WWF welcomes the outcome of the COP12 on Agenda Item 26, Ecosystem Conservation and
Restoration. WWF particularly welcomes the acknowledgment of the need to develop a
monitoring system for ecosystem degradation and restoration (paragraph 4.g), as well as the
inclusion of the marine sphere in the development of spatial planning approaches for the
reduction of habitat loss and the promotion of restoration (paragraph 4.a). Furthermore, WWF
welcomes the recognition of the crucial role of indigenous and local communities in the
conservation and management of biodiversity, and of the importance of protecting and
restoring coastal wetlands as crucial for biodiversity, ecosystem services, livelihoods, climate
change and disaster risks reduction (para 6). However, WWF believes that more efforts should
be made for ensuring sufficient financing and including the protection and restoration of
ecosystems in national and sub-national development programs and public policies.
COP recognized the contribution of private protected areas, in addition to public and
indigenous and local community managed areas, in the conservation of biodiversity, and
encourages the private sector to continue its efforts to protect and sustainably manage
ecosystems for the conservation of biodiversity.
Initially, this document was focussed on the terrestrial biome, so WWF suggested including
marine spatial planning and restoration. We also requested development of a
monitoring system for ecosystem degradation and restoration and recognition of the
crucial role of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in protection of
biodiversity. All of these suggestions were taken up by parties and voted through
successfully.

COP expressed concern about the findings and conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change in its Fifth Assessment Report, and urges Parties, other governments, relevant
organizations and stakeholders to take steps to address all biodiversity-related impacts of
climate change highlighted in the report and to further strengthen synergies with relevant work
under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
WWF encouraged Parties and other governments to promote and implement ecosystem-based
approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, and to integrate these into
their national policies and programmes in the context of the Hyogo Framework for Action
20052015, endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 60/195, and the
revised Framework to be adopted at the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction.
WWF also welcomes the references to the Warsaw Framework for REDD+, and those to
indigenous and local communities and traditional knowledge (preambular paragraph 4).

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In a politically charged atmosphere where some parties were determined to prevent links
between the UNFCCC and CBD, WWF successfully requested the inclusion of guidance
to be developed to both identify the positive and minimise the negative impacts of climate
change adaptation work on biodiversity (this is prevention of maladaptation, which is a
potential consequence of work that prioritises adaptation regardless of biodiversity
consequences).
We also obtained language to strengthen the links between biodiversity protection
and climate change adaptation and mitigation.

The Nagoya Protocol, a treaty expected to ensure greater access to genetic resources and a
mandatory fair sharing of the benefits that could be derived from those resources, entered into
force on 12 October, almost four years after it was adopted on 29th October 2010. WWF
applauds this progress and encourages further inclusion of representatives of indigenous and
local communities.

The final resolution on use of the terminology indigenous peoples and local communities
(Article 8J) in future decisions and secondary documents of COP comes with caveats and will
not have a bearing on any past decisions or change the meaning of the Text of the Convention.
Nevertheless, WWF welcomes this decision as it has been a long-standing demand of
Indigenous and Local Communities (ILCs) and also a recommendation of the United Nations
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
COP has encouraged parties and ILCs to consider how indigenous and local communities might
effectively participate in the development, collection and analysis of data, including through
Community-Based Monitoring, and further explore how indigenous and local communities
Community-Based Monitoring and Information Systems can contribute to monitoring of Aichi
Target indicators. The plan of action on customary sustainable use of biological diversity has
also been endorsed and there is a request for support for ILCs to develop community plans and
protocols to document, map, and register their community conservation areas. WWF
supported advocacy for this and also suggested that similar recognition, and
related funding and capacity building be made across other appropriate decisions.

WWF worked closely with many partners from

banks to business and governments to NGOs and
indigenous peoples and local communities, to
cooperate on advocacy efforts as well as
showcasing conservation partnerships at global,
regional and national levels in implementation.
WWF team members had multiple events and
relationship building meetings with partners on
site.
WWF side events included Governments, CBD
Secretariat staff, partners and Indigenous Peoples
groups attending to discuss conservation issues at
global, regional and national levels.
The WWF advocacy team worked intensely with
Delegation leads (Birdlife, RARE, CI, IUCN, TNC and WWF) met to
TNC, CI, Birdlife and IUCN on biodiversity discuss COP outcomes
integration into Sustainable Development Goals
and on resource mobilization target setting.

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WWF Korea ran a booth in the Exhibition Centre in collaboration with the Yellow Sea
Ecoregion Project (a cooperation between WWF Japan, WWF China and Korean Partners). The
booth gave WWF Korea an important opportunity to engage with the Korean Government
officials, conservation professionals and the public. It was visited by the Minister of
Environment, the Governor of Pyeongchang and the CBD Executive Secretary.

1.

The Arctic and The Economics of Ecosystem Biodiversity: this was run by Sasha
Shestakov and had 5 governments, 2 Indigenous groups and a number of potential
partner institutions discussing the best way to scope and frame a TEEB assessment of the
Arctic.

2.

Yellow Sea: WWF offices from Japan, China and South Korea ran an event focussing on
biological assessment, community engagement and identification of pressures in the
Yellow Sea Ecoregion. The event had about 70 people including scientists, institutions,
local community, youth and government representatives over two hours and was really
popular.

3.

The Living Amazon Initiative: run by Tarsicio Granizo, in which activities carried out by
WWF and RedParques (the network of Latin American Protected Area Directors) were
presented, putting forward protected areas as a tool for climate change adaptation and
had a number of governments (Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Germany), the World Bank
and others interested in the region attending.

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4.

Bhutan event: hosted by the Royal Government of Bhutan and WWF on adapting to
Bhutan a sustainable financing approach tested in Canada, Costa Rica and Brazil using
Wall Street concepts that leverages permanent financing for protected area systems.

5.

West Africa Marine: WAMPO and Partners showed how they were achieving Aichi targets
and sustainable resource management in the marine and coastal programme of West
Africa (PRCM). Malle Diagana had a dozen governments and 60 people at the West
African Marine showcase.

6.

Tigers: The Tigers Alive Initiative hosted Beyond Tigers highlighting the manner in
which tigers promote (and could further promote) CBD objectives, particularly Aichi
Targets 11 and 12, also highlighted how tiger conservation efforts have mobilized funds
which protect the wider ecosystems in which the species is found. In addition it will
address how the intergovernmental tiger model is being replicated for other species, the
dissemination of best practice for protected area management through the growth of
Conservation Assured |Tiger Standards (CA|TS), as well as preliminary efforts towards
tiger reintroduction in Central Asia (Kazakhstan).

7.

ARPA for Life: Kate Newman spoke on the incorporation of private sector funding into
the ARPA for Life financing mechanism put in place by the Government of Brazil and
partners such as WWF and FUNBIO that will ensure permanent financing of the Brazilian
Amazon protected area network.

8.

Monitoring workshop: PJ Stephenson co-hosted a workshop with UNEP-WCMC entitled

"African data for African managers". There were 42 participants, including 20 African
countries who together identified policy decisions that require biodiversity information,
blockages to getting the information and potential solutions, we can now work with them
to implement.

In addition to WWF led events, our team members are frequently given prominent roles as
expert guest speakers. Some of them include:

Visaish Uppal worked with Indigenous Peoples groups throughout, speaking on social
issues at several events
Alfred Ralifo worked with Small Island States on content, side events and advocacy
The Protected Areas Day - Tarsicio Granizo, Alfred Ralifo and Oscar Guevara spoke on
protected areas as solutions and in the context of the Aichi targets
EBSA event - Malle Diagana spoke on ecologically significant marine areas using the West
Africa Marine Ecoregion as a case study
Daniela Diz spoke on SCBD Side Event - Impacts of Marine Debris on Marine and
Coastal Biodiversity
PJ Stephenson spoke on WWF tools that support CBD implementation, focussing on the
LPI and broader support for monitoring Aichi Targets at a side event on toolkits coorganized by Birdlife International, CI, RARE, TNC and WWF.
Business and Biodiversity - Jason Clay gave three presentations at this forum including
on Global Commodity Impact Indicators where he was keynote speaker.
Tarsicio Granizo and Oscar Guevara spoke at the Ecosystem based adaptation day
Visaish Uppal spoke at Biodiversity Mainstreaming event and Ecosystem Biodiversity,
REDD+ and community concerns
Guenter Mitlacher spoke at Progress in Implementing the IPBES Work Programme and
IPBES Stakeholder workshop, Findings and Recommendations of the High Level Panel
on Global Assessment of Resources for Implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity,
and Creative Resource Mobilisation for Biodiversity, and Biodiversity Indicators for
REDD+ event.
Oscar Guevara spoke at the two side events : the Contribution of Ecosystem Services and
Disaster Risk Reduction; and Contributing to the Post 2015 Development Agenda

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Members of the WWF advocacy team from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Pacific and Europe
(with nationalities from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Russia, Germany,
Italy, Sweden, Fiji, Mauritania, Korea, Vietnam, UK) worked intensively for 2 weeks in difficult
working conditions freezing tents, still smiling after 2 weeks.

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Susan Brown made the first general statement at Plenary

Dao Nguyen made an intervention on NBSAPs

Alfred Ralifo made an intervention on SDGs for Fiji

Tarsicio Granizo made an intervention on ecosystem

conservation and restoration

Daniela Diz made an intervention on marine and coastal

biodiversity

Oscar Guevara made an intervention on biodiversity and

climate change

Silvia Guzzini made an intervention on SDGs

Malle Diagana made an intervention on SDGs for Mauritania

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Susan Brown intervened at the High Level Segment

Alfred speaking on the Fiji experience on PA day

Vishaish Uppal spoke at Ecosystem Restoration and Biodiversity

Bhutan for Life side event

Sasha Shestakov made intervention on GBO4 for Russia

Tarsicio speaking about PAs in Amazon and adaptation on PA day

Susan Brown facilitated WAMPO's side event on achieving Aichi

targets

Beyond Tigers side event

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PJ Stephenson's workshop on monitoring

Amazon GI's event on Protected Areas as tools for climate change

adaptation

Arctic GI's side event on TEEB Scoping Study

Yellow Sea Ecoregion side event on transboundary collaboration

for biodiversity

Malle Diagana speaking at the CBD Secretariat's event on EBSAs

Malle Diagana and PJ Stephenson at the

monitoring workshop for Africa

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Text of the next steps to EBSAs, contact group met for 2 nights to work on this paragraph (the famous
paragraph 10 of Agenda item 21 on EBSAs)

WWF and partners at Yellow Sea Ecoregion project side event

Freezing temperature in tents, heated discussions go on

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True colours of COP-12, delegates use diverse ways of keeping warm in the five degree cold
working condition inside the meeting tents.

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SURNAME

NAME

Organisation

E-mail

BROWN

Susan (Ms)

WWF International sbrown@wwfint.org

DIAGANA

Malle (Mr)

WAMPO

mdiagana@wwfsenegal.org

DIZ

Daniela (Ms)

WWF Canada

DDiz@wwfcanada.org

GRANIZO

Tarsicio (Mr)

WWF
Living
Amazon Initiative tarsicio.granizo@wwf.org.ec

GUEVARA

Oscar J. (Mr)

WWF Colombia

GUZZINI

Silvia

WWF International sguzzini@wwfint.org

HAGBERG

Lovisa (Ms)

WWF Sweden

lovisa.hagberg@wwf.se

MITLACHER

Guenter (Mr)

WWF Germany

guenter.mitlacher@wwf.de

NGUYEN

Dao (Ms)

WWF International dnguyen@wwfint.org

PACKEISER

Tim (Mr)

WWF Germany

RALIFO

Alfred (Mr)

WWF
Pacific
Islands Office
aralifo@wwfpacific.org

RAUSING

Hedvig (Ms)

WWF International hrausing@wwfint.org

SHESTAKOV

Alexander (Mr)

WWF Canada

AShestakov@WWFCanada.org

SUNG

Hae Seung

WWF Korea

hsung@wwfkorea.or.kr

UPPAL

Vishaish (Ms)

WWF India

vuppal@wwfindia.net

BALTZER

Mike (Mr)

WWF Tigers Alive

Initiative
mbaltzer@wwf.org.my

BELECKY

Michael (Mr)

WWF Tigers Alive

Initiative
MBelecky@wwf.org.my

CHNG

Soh Koon (Ms)

WWF Tigers Alive skchng@wwf.panda.org;

Initiative
sohkoon@gmail.com

JIN

Zhonghao (Mr)

WWF China

zhhjin@wwfchina.org

NEWMAN

Kate (Ms)

WWF US

kate.newman@wwfus.org

PASHA

Mohammad
Khalid
Sayeed WWF Tigers Alive
(Mr)
Initiative
kpasha@wwf.org.my

Advocacy team

ojguevara@wwf.org.co

tim.packeiser@wwf.de

Side
event
delegation

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STEPHENSON

P.J. (Mr)

WWF International pjstephenson@wwfint.org

WANG (Ms)

Ying

WWF China

wangying@wwfchina.org

YASUMURA

Shigeki(Mr)

WWF Japan

yasumura@wwf.or.jp

ZHOU

Yujing

WWF China

yjzhou@wwfchina.org

CLAY

Jason (Mr)

WWF US

jason.clay@wwfus.org

JAMTSHO

Tashi

WWF Bhutan

tjamtsho@wwfbhutan.org.bt

SUNG

Soo Jung

WWF Korea

ssung_intern@wwfkorea.or.kr

PADDACK

Jean-Paul (Mr)

WWF Korea

jppaddack@wwfint.org

CHAE

Mihwa

WWF Korea

mchae@wwfkorea.or.kr

BURTON

LEANNE

WWF Korea

lburton@wwfkorea.or.kr

HUME

Andrew (Mr)

WWF GEF Agency

andrew.hume@wwfus.org

LEFEUVRE

Herve (Mr)

WWF GEF Agency

herve.lefeuvre@wwfus.org

STENHOUSE

Renae (Ms)

WWF GEF Agency

renae.stenhouse@wwfus.org

ZAPATA

Pedro (Mr)

WWF GEF Agency

pedro.zapata@wwfus.org

WWF Korea

WWF
Agency

GEF

Special thanks to WWF Germany, Netherlands and Sweden for providing funding to allow
developing country staff to carry out policy advocacy at COP-12, special thanks also go to
WWF Canada, WWF Colombia, WWF Fiji, WWF Germany, WWF India, WWF Korea, WWF
Sweden, WWF WAMPO, Global Arctic Programme, Living Amazon Initiative and LAC Policy
Cabinet for their support to contribute staff time to this engagement. Thanks to all WWF
colleagues who contributed to developing WWF once voice positions to COP-12 including
Cassandra Brooke, Sally Nicholson, Nikhil Advani, Naikoa Aguilar-Amuchastegui, Alexander
Belokurov, Jessica Battle, Aimee Gonzales, and Valerie Burgener. This sort of support is
fundamental to showing the diversity of our organisation, giving an equal voice across offices
and providing the perspective of places from all continents. Special thanks also go to all
offices that supported and engaged at the capital level to push forward WWF positions with
their Governments before and during COP-12. Finally, thanks to the whole WWF Delegation
to COP-12 for the hard work and support to WWFs mission and each other during the coldest
COP working conditions in CBDs history.

For more information, contact:

Dao Nguyen
Coordinator, Biodiversity Policy
WWF International
dnguyen@wwfint.org

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