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
Despite the fact that the Blue Economy has been estimated to generate US$2.5 trillion a year, the ocean’s life-sustaining functions have been compromised. Deteriorating marine resources pose a threat to all water-related business activities and to the livelihoods of those who depend on them. This panel discussion will shed light on the need for cross-sectoral collaboration and investments to scale up innovative technologies necessary to harness the vast opportunities that the Blue Economy offers.
14:30-15:00
Speakers:
Keynote
Dona Bertarelli
Special Adviser for the Blue Economy, UNCTAD
Keynote
Martin Koehring
Head, World Ocean Initiative, Economist Impact
Keynote
Dan Fairweather
Executive Director – Livestock, Aquaculture and Fisheries, Gallagher Specialty
Keynote
Virginijus Sinkevičius
European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
Session 4
Life Below Water
- Harnessing The Blue Economy through Investment & Innovation