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
Keynote
10:30 - 10:40
Resilient Farms and Food Supply. Who Foots the Bill?
The threats confronting the global food system are not static, they are escalating. Continuing with business as usual will have a catastrophic impact on our planet and its people, but also on our economies and the companies within them. If we accept that transforming global agriculture in the way that science, economics, and traditional knowledge sources suggest must happen then we must answer the question “Who will pay the Bill?”
In this keynote, Pollination Managing Director and former CEO of rePlant Capital Dave Haynes discussed what food industry leaders and companies can do to bridge financing gaps and find solutions for meeting the cost of transforming our food system. There is widespread recognition about the need to act but we are experiencing deficits in data and strategy, and most importantly financing that makes action seem difficult or uncertain.
How the cost of transition will be shared remains an open question but the cost of inaction will be borne by all and will be significantly higher and more disruptive than doing more today. This event shared lessons learned from Pollination's extensive experience collaborating with large food and beverage companies alongside the financial institutions investing in a better future. The talk shared ideas required to catalyze change within the food industry to make this journey possible.
Keynote
Dave Haynes
Managing Director, Pollination