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
Kim Chaix
Director of International Relations & Partnerships, Rainforest Foundation US
Kim is Director of External Relations at Rainforest Foundation US and was most recently Western Amazon Director for that organization. In this capacity he was responsible for guiding the organization’s multi-country strategy to support Indigenous peoples in their effort to protect their tropical Amazon forest and its biodiversity.
Previously, Kim served as the Director of Virunga Fund, a US non-profit dedicated to the protection of Africa's oldest and most biologically diverse national park.
He is also the founder of The Charcoal Project, a non-profit dedicated to bringing better biomass fuels and technologies to populations that depend on wood and traditional charcoal in sub-Saharan Africa.
Kim's first career was as a television news producer and wildlife documentary filmmaker. As a French Nicaraguan, Kim is a native Spanish and French speaker.
