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​
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09:45 – 10:30
Taking Stock of Nature Goals: Mapping Progress Towards COP16
This session tracked the progress toward implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework and its 2030 targets ahead of COP16 in Cali. We brought together cross-sector decision-makers to conduct a comprehensive analysis of our current trajectory and define the pathways to a nature-positive future within the next six years.
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What has been achieved since COP15?
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What gaps should we close to accelerate this progress?
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How are private-public partnerships able to contribute?
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What steps can businesses take now to meet biodiversity goals?
Moderator
Jessica Smith
Nature Lead, UNEP Finance Initiative
Speaker
Sherry Madera
CEO, CDP
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Speaker
Thomas Crowther
Founder, Crowther Lab
Speaker
Paula Ehrlich
President and CEO, E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation
Speaker
Tom Vile Jensen
Deputy Director, Insurance & Pension Denmark