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
Kumi Kitamori
Deputy Director, OECD Environment Directorate
Since September 2022, Kumi Kitamori has been the Deputy Director of the Environment Directorate at the OECD, overseeing climate change, biodiversity, water, indicators, chemical safety, Horizontal Initiatives, and Communications. From 2015 to 2022, she served as Head of the Green Growth & Global Relations Division, where she integrated green growth into OECD policy work and member countries, focusing on green growth policies, finance, and investment in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.
Before that, Kumi worked on emissions trading, water pricing, climate change, biodiversity, and health and environment issues at the OECD. She led the flagship project OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050, published in 2012. She also served as an Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General in 2005-2006. Prior to joining the OECD in 2000, Kumi worked at the World Bank on urban and environmental infrastructure projects in South and Southeast Asia. She holds a BA from New York University and an MSc from the London School of Economics.
