Acopian Center for the Environment

Save the date to join the second talk in the series “From Montreal to Yerevan: An Armenian–Quebec dialogue on the path to COP17.”

🌿 TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE FOR NATURE RECOVERY
🗓 April 30, 2025
7 PM (Yerevan time)
11 AM (Quebec time)

Speakers:
• Ana María Hernández Salgar – Former Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) & Transformative Changes Advisor, SNAP Québec
• Sergio Aranguren – Technical Coordinator of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability Colombia
• Garabet Kazanjian – Freshwater Ecologist, AUA Acopian Center for the Environment

Moderator: Alain Branchaud, Executive Director, SNAP Quebec

The session explores how transformative change across economic, social, and governance systems is essential to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, and how these approaches can inform the agenda of COP17.