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
Angélica Ospina
Directora Ejecutiva - CEO, Consejo Colombiano de Construcción Sostenible (Colombia GBC)
With over 17 years of experience, she has been a leading advocate for advancing sustainable construction in Colombia. She has worked as a consultant on truly sustainable construction projects, and she was one of the founders of Colombia Green Building Council (Colombia GBC). n 2017, she became the first person in South America to achieve the prestigious LEED Fellow designation in recognition of her contributions at both the national and international levels. Since 2012, she has also been a lecturer at the Universidad de los Andes. She holds degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Universidad de los Andes, as well as a master's degree and a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology,specializing in sustainable construction. In addition, she holds several professional accreditations, including LEED AP BD+C, LEED AP O+M, CASA Professional, and EDGE Expert.
