Presentations

SESSION 1
Welcoming remarks and introduction by:

• Mrs. Camille Pisani, director general of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
• Luc Janssens de Bisthoven (Coordinator of the CEBioS programme, RBINS)
• Alexander De Croo (Deputy prime minister and minister of Development Cooperation)

Examples of interventions by :

• The European Commission (Arnold Jacques de Dixmude)
• The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Patrick Grootaert and Roseline Beudels)
• VLIR-UOS and ARES (Marie Anne Eurie Forio (VLIR-UOS) and Pierre Duez (ARES))
• Klimos (Bruno Verbist)
• The SHIFT (David Leyssens)

SESSION 2

• Botanic Garden Meise (Francesca Lanata)
• Royal Museum for Central Africa (Eva November and Jos Snoeks)
• Fisheries and Global Warming: Impacts on Marine Ecosystems, Daniel Pauly (University of British Columbia, Canada)
• The Global Taxonomy Initiative, Marie-Lucie Susini (RBINS, CEBioS), Imane Rahmouni (Université Mohammed V- Souissi, Maroc) and Longin Ndayikeza (Université du Burundi, Faculté des Sciences)
• Plant genetic resources and crop protection, Yêyinou Laura Estelle Loko (Polytechnic University of Abomey, Benin)

SESSION 3

• Health, Biodiversity and Development, Richard Kock (Royal Veterinary College, University of London, United Kingdom)
• Using native biodiversity to restore metal-polluted soil in tropical Africa: a case study in the copperbelt of Katanga (D.R. Congo), Pierre Meerts (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
• Biodiversity and genetic resources in North and South: Introducing the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing, Brendan Coolsaet (Université catholique de Louvain)
• Potential for biodiversity conservation of three legal land uses in Central Africa: industrial logging concessions, protected areas, and community forests, Jean-Louis Doucet (Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech)

SESSION 4

• Aquatic ecology for sustainable development in Africa, Luc Brendonck (KU Leuven)