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
Oceanic Innovation
- Fostering Life on a Sustainable Earth
11:00
-11:30
The importance of the world’s oceans for biodiversity cannot be overstated. 80% of all life on Earth is found in the oceans. They contain around a quarter of a million known species, with still more to be discovered - scientists estimate that at least two thirds of the world’s marine species are yet to be identified. At the same time, the threats faced by oceans, including overconsumption and pollution, have never been greater.
In this keynote session, speakers will share examples of best practice when it comes to protecting marine biodiversity. They will highlight the important innovations, opportunities, and developments that will drive the protection of marine ecosystems in the future.
