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​
Jo Tyndall
Director, OECD Environment Directorate
Jo Tyndall is the Director of the Environment Directorate at the OECD, overseeing a range of environmental issues, including green growth, climate change, biodiversity, eco-innovation, and the circular economy. She joined the OECD in September 2022. Before this, Jo served as New Zealand's High Commissioner to Singapore from 2019 to 2022 and as New Zealand’s Climate Change Ambassador from 2010. In her ambassador role, she was the head of delegation to the UN climate negotiations and co-chaired the UNFCCC’s Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement from 2016 to 2018. Earlier, Jo was Director of the Broadcasting Unit in New Zealand's Ministry for Culture and Heritage and Chief Executive of NZ On Air. She also led two screen industry organizations, SPADA and Project Blue Sky. Jo began her career as a multilateral trade policy specialist with New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.Â
