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
Alexandre Antonelli
Director of Science, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Alexandre Antonelli is Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the UK. He is also Professor in Biodiversity and Systematics at the University of Gothenburg, Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford and a distinguished Scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Alex is a Brazilian biodiversity scientist, studying the diversity, distribution, evolution and conservation of species and developing methods to speed up scientific discovery and find nature-positive solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises. He is a member of the CBD Informal Advisory Group on Technical and Scientific Cooperation and the International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits – work he recently presented at the G20 Bioeconomy Initiative meeting in Brazil.
He has published over 245 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and has been named on Clarivate’s ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ list every year since 2020. In 2022, he was awarded the prestigious Senckenberg Prize for Nature Research.
