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
María Ruiz
LAC Lab Leader, Climate Policy Initiative
María Ruiz leads the Latin American & the Caribbean program of the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, and supports CPI innovative finance work.
With over eleven years of experience in both the private and public sectors, she has leveraged her background in finance to advance initiatives that promote social and environmental impact across the region. She has a particular focus on innovative financial instruments for nature-based solutions.
Before joining CPI, she was Head of Sustainable Investment at SURA Investments, a leading Latin American asset manager with over USD 20 billion in assets under management. She developed and led the incorporation of ESG and climate analysis into investment processes in multiple asset classes and geographies.
She is a member of advisory technical committees for GRI and PACTA, a mentor for climate start-ups as part of the Catal1.5t program and a co-leader of ‘Climate Dialogues Latam”, an investor-led collaborative climate engagement initiative.
