Université Paris-Saclay, UC Davis, Terre et Cité, the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority (OSA), The Nature Conservancy, and EIT Climate KIC have joined forces to set up a series of webinars on natural and working lands in periurban areas as keys to resilience in the face of climate change and biodiversity depletion.

Policy-makers, researchers, state representatives, farmers and other actors from the Plateau de Saclay and the Silicon Valley will present their work and reflect together on the design and implementation of policies for the ecological transition, as well as on the role of research in accelerating change.

Speakers

In France
- Yann ARTHUS-BERTRAND (Photographer, reporter, director and ecologist)
- Anne LARIGAUDERIE (Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – IPBES)
- Julie TISSOT (CSR and Sustainable Development Director, Paris Saclay Public Development Authority)
- Dorian SPAAK (General Coordinator of Terre & Cité)
- Paul LEADLEY (Ecology Professor at Université Paris Saclay, IPBES author)
- Damien DELAVILLE (Urbanist, Institut Paris Région)
- Nicolas CORNET (Ecologist, Institut Paris Région)
In the USA
- Jennifer NORRIS (Deputy Secretary, Biodiversity and Habitat at California Natural Resources Agency)
- Virginia JAMESON (Climate and Conservation Program Manager,
Department of Conservation at the State of California)
- Louise JACKSON (Emerita Professor and Specialist in Cooperative Extension, UC Davis)
- Andrea MACKENZIE (General Manager of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority)

Date and times: Thursday, October 7, 2021, 9-11am (California) / 6-8pm (Paris)

A simultaneous translation service will be available during the webinar.

Watch the webinar live on Université Paris-Saclay's YouTube channel:

For more information and to register: https://terreetcite.org/en/page_us_en/

An introductory webinar was held in January 2021, to present the key concepts and actors for the resilience of periurban areas. You can watch it here: