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
25 September 2025
Civic Hall, New York City, USA
Uniting for Impact: Innovative Solutions for Climate and Nature
With the aim to bridge biodiversity and climate solutions, World Biodiversity Summit was launched by the World Climate Foundation in 2021. The inaugural event was successfully held in three parts, culminating in a convening of high-level and influential stakeholders on the sidelines of COP26 in Glasgow, UK. In 2022, the three-part Summit convened alongside UNGA 77 and Climate Week NYC, UNFCCC COP27 and UNCBD COP15.
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The Summit gathers public and private sector stakeholders from across the globe, creating a pioneering platform to address biodiversity loss, restoration and investing in nature-based solutions - to set the world on a path to achieve the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity and 2030 Targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework.
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In 2025, to effectively tackle the interconnected crisis of climate change and biodiversity loss, we united World Climate Summit and World Biodiversity Summit into a single platform for action: World Climate and Biodiversity Summit.
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The Summit sets out to strengthen cross-sectoral collaboration and advance integrated solutions that drive investments, partnerships and real-world outcomes for the planet, people and industry.
The World Biodiversity Summit is a game-changer. It brings together bold leaders, brilliant minds, and fierce advocates from every corner of the planet. This isn't just another event – it's both a global call to action and a platform for action. At a time when the survival of our ecosystems hangs in the balance, this summit is the launchpad for the collaboration and innovation we need to protect biodiversity and secure the future for generations to come.
Kristian Teleki, CEO, Fauna & Flora
World Biodiversity Summit represents an invaluable space for much needed open and robust conversations on how to address the accelerating and terrifying planetary health crisis. There is no time for complacency or delay. We live in times of choices and times of consequences
Marco Lambertini, Convenor, Nature-Positive Initiative
About the World Climate Foundation
The World Climate Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation acting as an independent mediator and trustworthy platform for cross-sector collaboration. Since 2010, the World Climate Foundation has worked with and engaged a network of global leaders and multi-sector stakeholders to combine the expertise and action needed, focusing on creating ambition loops through public-private partnerships in the areas of climate, biodiversity and health resilience.
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The World Climate Foundation launched World Biodiversity Network in 2021 to bridge biodiversity and climate agenda. Through its collaborative, high-level network, the World Climate Foundation works closely with inspiring leaders from government, business, financial institutions and civil society to build resilience and enable the necessary transformation that addresses both the climate change and biodiversity crises.