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​
​Fireside Chat
17:10 – 17:35
Closing Keynote
17:35 - 17:45
Raising the Voice: Business Leadership in Driving Sustainable Change
This session examined the essential role businesses can play in advancing global biodiversity and climate agenda shaping the outcomes of COP16 and COP29.
The session unveiled ways and methods businesses can advocate for and influence stronger environmental regulations aligned with the Global Biodiversity Framework, empower other organisations, and shape consumer behaviour.
Attendees found out how the private sector can set examples and drive a positive change for a nature-positive future while expanding business and finance opportunities.
Moderator
Diane Holdorf,
Executive Vice President, Pathways, WBCSD
Keynote
Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone and Co-Chair C40
Speaker
Manuel Pulgar Vidal
Global Climate and Energy Lead, WWF
Speaker
Vanessa Miler-Fels
Global VP Environment and Climate, Scheider Electric