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
Ignace Beguin Billecocq
Ocean and Coastal Zones Lead, Climate Champions
Ignace Beguin Billecocq is Head, Food Systems at the UN Global Compact. He also leads the Ocean and Coastal programme of the UN High Level Climate Champions since COP26 and Chair the Mangrove Breakthrough Council. In the run-up to COP28, Ignace managed the climate champions nature team. In his career, Ignace has been successful in convening a diverse set of stakeholders to deliver impactful programmes. He puts special emphasis on leveraging the role of companies in achieving the SDGs and the integration of nature in transition plans. Ignace holds a Master in international law from the University of Aix-Marseille, France.
