Dr. Cristiana Paşca Palmer, the newly appointed Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), visited the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) during her official visit to Japan on June 20th. Professor Takeuchi, the senior visiting professor at UNU, received Dr. Paşca Palmer and introduced her to the Satoyama Initiative, the principal project of UNU-IAS that aims to realize a society living in harmony with nature.
OUIK members had the opportunity to introduce the accomplishments from the 1st Asian Conference on Biocultural Diversity which was held in October 2016. Dr. Paşca Palmer welcomed the partnership between UNU-IAS OUIK and the Joint UNESCO-SCBD Programme on the Links between Biological and Cultural Diversity.
Secretary Palmer (the second from the left) met with Professor Takeuchi (the third from the left)
