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
26 September 2024
SECOND, New York, USA
Climate Week NYC
26 October 2024
MUSEO - Museo La Tertulia,
Cali, Colombia
alongside UNCBD COP16​
High Level Welcome and Opening Session
09:05 – 09:45
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Nature and Climate: Two Sides of the Same Coin
This high-level session will focus on the interconnectedness of the carbon cycle with climate change and biodiversity, underscoring nature's critical role as a primary carbon reservoir and sink that is essential to addressing climate challenges. Using the planetary boundaries framework, it will explore why nature and climate are inseparable issues that must be seen in unison.
How does this work in practice, and why is integration so important?
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How can we integrate climate change adaptation into biodiversity conservation plans?
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How can international cooperation be improved to address the dual challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss in an integrated way to create a nature-positive and carbon-neutral future?
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Moderator
Dr Harvey Locke
Vice Chair, Nature Positive, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and Y2Y
Speaker
Professor Dr. Johan Rockström
Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Speaker
Dr Agnes Kalibata
President, Agra Foundation