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
Creating Pathways for
Nature-Positive Investments
A Leading Platform
World Climate & Biodiversity Summit has grown since its inaugural year to become a leading platform tackling the most pressing issues in biodiversity and climate.
World Climate & Biodiversity Summit facilitates solution-oriented partnerships to convert climate and biodiversity goals into concrete actions guided by the Kunming – Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement.
World Climate & Biodiversity Summit measures impact through three indicators: Global, Sectoral and Organisational.
Until the world reaches its sustainability goals, including achieving net-zero emissions or protecting biodiversity, businesses need to do everything they can to avert more intense, irreversible climate and ecosystem meltdown. With the World Climate Foundation and through the World Biodiversity Summit, we are committed to work with partners and clients to change the game, plan transitions and disrupt existing industries.
Jean-Baptiste Perrin, Invent for Society Global Leader, Capgemini Invent
Global Impact
World Climate & Biodiversity Summit facilitates cross-sectoral collaboration to foster policies and spur investments in nature-based solutions to close the nature finance gap and accelerate the global transition to a green economy through coalition building. Our new initiative, Nature Investment Coalition (NIC) aims to build a collaborative platform for the public sector, civil society, finance and industry leaders to mobilise and deploy nature-positive financing. Financial commitments of $100 billion will be aligned to contribute to the 2030 Breakthroughs, Sharm el Sheikh Adaptation Agenda and the Global Biodiversity Framework goals.
Sectoral Impact
World Climate & Biodiversity Summit works closely with the key nature-dependent sectors to promote and scale up the best practices across the most nature-impactful areas (such as forestry, agriculture and the water systems) and identify nature-positive business opportunities. The Summit also facilitates the necessary cross-sector conversation around the required paradigm shift in our consumption patterns and the need for nature-driven policy and financial systems.
Organisational Impact
Working together with businesses, asset managers, asset owners, governments and civil society around the world, World Climate & Biodiversity Summit facilitates organisation-driven positive impact on nature.
The platform connects its members and guides them to successfully achieve the goals of global frameworks such as the Kunming – Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. By aligning different organisations across sectors with the global frameworks and existing nature partnerships and coalitions, the summit aims to enhance biodiversity globally and to support nature-based solutions that can address both climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as create jobs.
The private sector has an essential role to contribute to achieving the new UN Global Biodiversity Framework. Thousands of companies are already acting and making commitments in different ways to help reverse nature loss, but it is clearly not enough! There is a voluntary action that is fragmented, that is why we also need the policy ambition to drive even more business action on the ground.
Eva Zabey, CEO, Business for Nature
I’ve been working internationally in nature for 40 years; I recognise only two of you in the room. And that's a fantastic thing.
Dr. Harvey Locke, Vice Chair for Nature Positive, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and Y2Y
Key Outcomes
By fostering innovation, investment, and cross-sector collaboration, WCBS will deliver a series of outcomes, designed to accelerate climate and nature integration and drive scalable, real-world impact ahead of COP30.
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A roadmap with sector-specific recommendations for businesses, investors, and policymakers to integrate and implement nature and climate strategies.
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New public-private impact coalitions to develop and scale holistic sustainable solutions for a triple impact.
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Commitments from financial institutions, development banks, and private investors under the umbrella of the Nature Investment Coalition and Climate Investment Coalition, to increase capital allocation for biodiversity and climate projects.
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Strengthened alignment between the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement.
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Addressing key gaps in global biodiversity and climate targets, offering clear policy and investment recommendations and frameworks required for further action on climate and nature.
The summit will deliver updates and announcements from key partners and coalitions as well as the formation of novel partnerships aiming to catalyse systemic change by 2030 and beyond.