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
Vuyisile Hobololo
Head of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Technology Innovation Agency (TIA)
Vuyisile Hobololo currently serves as Head: Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) Business Unit, within the Bio-economy Division at the Technology Innovation Agency - an agency of the Department of Science and Innovation.
He oversees and leads management of an investment portfolio that enables provision of financial and non-financial support to innovators who are in the trade of developing and commercialising bio-based products that emanate from indigenous knowledge.
The IKS portfolio is spread across the following thematic areas: African traditional medicine (including human and ethno-veterinary medicine), cosmeceuticals, health infusions (including indigenous teas), nutraceuticals, and cannabis and hemp-based innovations.
Vuyisile completed a Master of Science (Entomology) degree at the University of Stellenbosch, and Master of Intellectual Property Law and Management (Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) at the University of Strasbourg, France.
