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
Katia Karousakis
Biodiversity Programme Lead, Environment, Transitions and Resilience Division, OECD
Katia Karousakis works in the Environment Directorate at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), where she leads the Biodiversity programme. Her work focuses on the economics and policy of biodiversity, covering areas such as effective design of policy instruments, biodiversity finance and mainstreaming. Prior to this, from 2006-2008, she worked on climate change issues within the OECD/IEA Climate Change Expert Group.
An environmental economist by training, Katia has a PhD from UCL, London, and a Masters’ degree from Duke University, USA.
