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
21 September 2023
SECOND, New York, USA
Alongside UNGA 78 & Climate Week NYC
Catalysing Nature Markets
- Aligning Investors, Projects, and Biodiversity Goals
With the Global Biodiversity Framework paving the way for a new era of action for nature, progress in finance
for biodiversity is already taking shape. However, to achieve our collective climate, biodiversity, and land
degradation goals, investment in nature-based solutions needs to significantly increase.
Through this session, speakers will outline clear actions that are spearheading innovative financing and
economic incentives to stimulate the transformation of finance into nature. Successful case studies will
showcase tangible examples of financial incentives for sustainable land management, market-based
approaches promoting biodiversity-friendly products, and risk-leveraging financial instruments.
Dr Harvey Locke
Vice Chair for Nature Positive, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and Y2Y
Louis Chang
Chief Sustainability Officer, E.SUN Financial Holding Company
Dr Helen Crowley
Partner, Pollination Group
Dr Valerie Hickey
Global Director of Environment, Natural Resources and the Blue Economy, World Bank