A new key biodiversity platform for cross sectoral collaboration
For its inaugural launch, World Biodiversity Summit will help define what world leaders and the private sector in biodiversity and climate action need to do in the medium and long term to achieve sustainable development and hinder further biodiversity loss, focusing on partnerships and investment mechanisms as levers of progress. World Biodiversity Summit is a platform for responding to accelerating biodiversity loss, by using the Paris Agreement as a framework to learn from, promoting relevant solutions, innovations, and leadership networks, strengthening nature restoration and conservation. Nature-based solutions will be highlighted, from specificecosystems to global possibilities.
SPEAKERS
SPEAKERS
SPEAKERS
26 September 2024
SECOND, New York, USA
Climate Week NYC
26 October 2024
MUSEO - Museo La Tertulia,
Cali, Colombia
alongside UNCBD COP16​
Dr. Harvey Locke
Vice Chair for Nature Positive, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and Y2Y
Dr. Harvey Locke is a nature conservationist, writer, and photographer who is a recognized global leader in the field of parks, large landscape conservation and the interface between nature and the climate. He is co-founder of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative and the global Nature Needs Half Movement and is Vice Chair for Nature Positive of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. He received an Honourary Doctorate from the University of Calgary and is a Fellow of both the China Institute at the University of Alberta and the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. He is currently leading a project on private sector financing of intact nature for nature and biodiversity outcomes.Â
