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
New York, USA | 21 September 2022
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt | 15 November 2022
Dr Simon Zadek
Chair, Finance for Biodiversity Initiative
Dr Zadek is Chair of Finance for Biodiversity and Advisor to the Task Force on Nature Related Financial Disclosure. He led the UN Secretary General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the SDGs, was Finance Advisor in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General, and led the G20 green finance secretariat under the Chinese, German and Argentinian Presidencies. He was on the International Advisory Board of Generation Investment Management, had advisory roles at the World Economic Forum, was CEO of AccountAbility, Visiting Professor at the Singapore Management University, and a senior fellow at Tsinghua School of Economics and Management and Harvard`s Kennedy School of Government. He has advised corporations, governments and multi-stakeholder initiatives, and published extensively, including the award-winning book, The Civil Corporation.