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​
16:00 - 16:50
The Road to $200 Billion: Finance Strategies for Biodiversity Action
To close the nature finance gap and ensure we can meet the 2030 Vision for biodiversity, the Global Biodiversity Framework Target 19 calls for mobilising $200 billion per year. In what ways can nature-focused regulations contribute to achieving Target 19? How can financial innovation accelerate biodiversity conservation? The session gathered finance pioneers disclosing the most prominent strategies to fulfil biodiversity goals and close the nature funding gap through strategic investments and partnerships.
Moderator
Jessica Smith,
Nature Lead, UNEP Finance Initiative
Speaker
Noor Yafai
Europe Director Global Policy and Institutional Partnerships, The Nature Conservancy
Speaker
Cornelia Neumann,
Partner, Finance & Risk, Climate and Sustainability, Oliver Wyman
Speaker
Michael Hillary
Group Executive: Finance Operations, Development Bank of Southern Africa
Speaker
Kumi Kitamori,
Deputy Director, Environment Directorate, OECD
Speaker
Bertrand Millot
Head of Sustainability, CDPQ