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Responsibilities:

• The consultant’s responsibilities will include:
• Analysis of the Draft Version of the Bioeconomy High-Level Principles, engagement with Environmental Ministry and the provision of proposals/recommendations to improve the draft.
• Technical design, stakeholder identification, background notes, speaking points, elaboration of the agenda and analysis of results and outcome document for the G20 Initiative on Bioeconomy (‘GIB’) meetings.
• Support to the Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group regarding technical notes and feedback to the PES Issue note.
• Elaborate report on the State of Bioeconomy in Brazil, aiming to provide the Bioeconomy Secretariat an overview of the current state and future perspectives of bioeconomy in Brazil, offering insights for the development of the National Bioeconomy Policy and its Action Plan.
• It will map the main bioeconomy sectors in Brazil, their key characteristics, challenges and perspectives, as well as compile an overview of the ongoing related policies and strategies nationally.
• This draft version will be reviewed by the main stakeholders involved in the bioeconomy agenda in Brazil, ie: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Environment and Climate Change from the government as well as from academia.
• Support to the internal UNEP biodiversity economy group on framing and on the how to develop bioeconomy value chains.
• Contributions to the National Bioeconomy Strategy and Plan in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment.
• Contributions to the GIB final report.
• Contributions to the GIB transition piece a handover document to the Government of South Africa which will take over the G20 Chair from Brazil in 2025

Qualifications/special skills

• An advanced university degree in Environmental Science, Social Science, Agricultural science or Public Administration, Economics or Environmental Economics, or a related field is required.
• A first university degree with a combination of two (2) years professional and academic qualifications may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.
• A minimum of seven (7) years of professional working experience in programme and project planning and implementation in the field of sustainable biodiversity value chains, bioeconomy and of economic instruments for biodiversity and ecosystems conservation is required.
• Experience in stakeholder engagement at federal, state and/or municipal level is desirable.
• Experience with valuation of ecosystem services and biodiversity would be an added advantage.
• An understanding of the Brazilian environmental, bioeconomy and economic political context, as well as the Brazilian environmental and economic institutional framework is desirable.