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.
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New York, USA | 21 September 2022
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt | 15 November 2022
Advancing Progress Together
Evidence of biodiversity loss is everywhere and climate change is contributing to this loss. But, biodiversity loss does not only refer to the loss of plants and animals, it threatens all life on our planet. The state of the natural environment is directly linked to our ability to adapt, mitigate and solve the challenges that our planet is facing nowadays. As we aim to bring economic growth within safe planetary boundaries, achieve the Paris Agreement goals and support the Post-2020 Global Framework, cross-sector synergy is crucial.
The goal of the World Biodiversity Summit is to bridge biodiversity and climate and to accelerate investment-driven solutions to the biodiversity crisis. The Summit will serve as a convening for leaders from across public and private sectors, to set the world on a path to achieve the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity through actionable leadership and supporting the facilitation of a task force on nature-related financial disclosures.
Measurable targets and commitments will be established, determining best practices for innovation and collaboration and creating public-private partnerships that will strengthen initiatives to prevent the ongoing destruction of biodiversity, therefore contributing to a healthy planet.
Focus Areas Explored at World Biodiversity Summit 2021
Finance & Investments in Nature
Natural Capital as a new Asset Class
Regenerative Agriculture & Ecosystems
Resilient Food Systems & Food Security
Sustainable Forestry & Restorative Land Managemet
Biodiversity & Pandemics
The Blue Economy
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DIGITAL
Programme: Kunming, October 14
- Side event to COP15 - Kunming, China, October 14 2021
Note: Session titles and timings are subject to change
Time zone (GMT+8)
15:00 - 15:15
Welcoming remarks
Climate Action for Biodiversity - Building a Bridge between COPs
15:15 - 15:20
Keynote
Focusing on Biodiversity and Prevention of Future Pandemics
15:20 - 16:10
Session 1
The Blue Planet - Investments and Solutions for Resilient and Healthy Fresh and Sea Water
16:10 - 17:00
Session 2
Investing in Sustainable Forests Management - Solving The Climate & Biodiversity Crisis, One Tree at a Time
17:00 - 18:00
Session 3
Regenerative Agriculture & Food Security - How Can We Catalyse Capital into Innovative Solutions?
18:00 - 18:30
Closing Remarks by Partners
Actionable Leadership for Nature -Supporting Ecosystem Resilience and Climate Goals (through Nature-Based Solutions)
16:30 - 16:35
Networking Break
18:30 - 19:00
Cocktail Reception & Networking
“Mitigating climate change and halting the loss of biodiversity are two critical issues that are deeply interconnected. Many of the drivers, challenges and solutions are one and the same, and they must be addressed together.
By creating a bridge between COP15 and COP26, the World Biodiversity Summit will play an important role in ensuring that the conversations, outcomes and commitments that come out of these meetings are aligned, and move the system towards the transformative change that’s needed to halt warming at 1.5°C and reverse the degradation of the natural world.”
Mark Gough
CEO, Capitals Coalition