International Colloquium
Promoting Sustainable Lake Management (SLM): Challenges, Achievements and Lessons Learned

Morning Session*Click titles or speakers' names for clips
1. Greetings - 0:36
🎤 Kazuhiko Takemoto (President, ILEC) - 0:54
🎤 Patrick M’mayi (on behalf of Jian Liu, Director, Early Warning & Assessment Division, UNEP) - 5:43
🎤 Gabor Molnar (Managing Director, Lake Balaton Development Coordination Agency, Hungary) - 11:28

2. Background and Purpose of Colloquium - 14:36
🎤 Walter Rast (Chair, ILEC Scientific Committee):Colloquium background - 14:51

🎤 Masahisa Nakamura (Vice-President, ILEC):
SLM as a Basin Governance Improvement Process - 22:15

3. Messages from National Governments (Government Needs and Commitments) - 35:43
🎤 Inge Retnowati (Director, Inland Waters and Mangrove Rehabilitation, Ministry of Environment and Forestry,Indonesia) - 36:04
🎤 Michihiro Oi (Manager, Marine Environment Division, Water and Air Environment Bureau, Ministry of theEnvironment, Japan) - 45:07
🎤 The SLM-related Program Frameworks of Selected National Government (Nepal) - 56:35

4. Voices from the Continental Regions (Toward Sharing and Cross-Fertilizing SLM Experiences) - 1:09:25
🎤 Sharon van Tuylen (Vice President, Asociation Guatemala de Limnologia & Gestion de Lagos, Guatemara) - 1:10:07
🎤 Adelina Santos-Borja (Chair, Southeast Asian Limnological Network, Philippines) - 1:20:22
🎤 Emily Finnell (Great Lakes Senior Advisor and Strategist Office of the Great Lakes, Michigan, USA) - 1:36:46
collaborated with
🎤 Tetsuji Morimoto (Director General, Department of Lake Biwa and the Environment, Shiga PrefecturalGovernment, Japan) - 1: 46:10

5. UNEP Activities and Partnership Efforts in Facilitating SLM Implementation - 1:52:36(Moderator: Patrick M’mayi - Early Warning & Assessment Division)🎤 Vivek Shah (Ecosystems Division-):
SLM Resolution and UNEP Lakes Portal and Freshwater Challenges - 1:54:35
🎤 Nina Raasakka (Early Warning & Assessment Division):
Advancing Sustainable Lake Management Through Partnership Efforts - 2:12:37
🎤 Kenneth Irvine (IHE Delft; WWQA Ecosystems Workstream):
Embedding Lakes into the Global Sustainability Agenda - 2:26:39
🎤 Themba Gumbo (Director, Cap-Net):Interdisciplinary and Institutional Knowledge as a Pathway Towards SLM Massive Open Online Course - 2:37:00
🎤 Elizabeth M. Bernhardt (Ecosystems Division- Freshwater Ecosystems Unit):COP-28 & Towards UNEA-6 - 2:48:46

International Colloquium
Promoting Sustainable Lake Management (SLM): Challenges, Achievements and Lessons Learned

Afternoon Session*Click titles or speakers' names for clips
EXTRA. Introducing ILEC's new video, "What's ILBM? SV" - 0:00
6. Invited Presentations on Further Advancing SLM Experiences Globally - 12:40
🎤 Rafik Hirji (Director, Water, Environment and Climate Solutions, LLC; Former World Bank Team Leader, GEF Lake
Basin Management Initiative):
Integrated Lake and Reservoir Basin Management: A Framework for Implementing UN Resolution onSustainable Lake Management and Climate Resilience - 13:19
🎤 Thomas Mehner (President, International Society of Limnology (SIL)):
Limnological Science and SLM - 32:36
🎤 Sonja Koeppel (UNECE & Secretariat, Freshwater Convention):
Global Water Convention and SLM - 45:29
🎤 Stephanie Smith (Strategic Advisor, African Center for Aquatic Research and Education and Principal, Zephyr
Mangata Consulting) - 56:19 co-presented with
🎤 Marie Claire Dusabe (African Women in Science Alumni, African Center for Aquatic Research and Education):
African Great Lakes and SLM Implementation - 58:45
🎤 ILEC Secretariat, with Contributions from Participating Members of the Workshop entitled:
The SLM Implication of the Lake Biwa-Yodo River Basin Management - 1:17:41

7. International Panel Discussion, with Conclusions and Recommendations:
SLM Roles and Implementations Challenges in Pursuit of UN-Water Agenda Toward the SDGs - 1:40:35
🎤 Chair: Andras Szöllősi-Nagy (Former Director, UNESCO-IHP）

Closing Remarks - 2:55:40
🎤 Yasuo Takahashi (Director, ILEC; Executive Director, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES))- International Colloquium "Promoting Sustainable Lake Management (SLM): Challenges, Achievements and Lessons Learned"
・Morning Session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsEBDk4flO8・Afternoon Session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMR8LYaeBsY
Date: November 6th, 2023
Venue: Balatonfüred Congress Center / Online
Host: International Lake Environment Committee Foundation (ILEC)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Participants: 134 people from 16+ countries

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