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
Meryl Richards
Program Director, Food and Forests, Ceres
Meryl directs Ceres’ strategy for working with leading companies and investors to address climate impacts of the food sector and nature-related risks more broadly. She also works on Nature Action 100, a global investor-led initiative to drive corporate action and ambition on nature loss.
Previously at Ceres, Meryl led research on the climate impacts of agriculture and commodity-driven deforestation and how food companies can reduce the material risks associated with those impacts. Before joining Ceres, she was a science officer with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.
Meryl has been quoted in the New York Times and Financial Times, among other publications; spoken at national and international events; and authored over 30 reports and scholarly articles. She holds a Ph.D. in plant and soil science from the University of Vermont and a B.A. and B.E. in engineering from Dartmouth College.
