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
27 October 2024
Cali, Colombia,
alongside UNCBD COP16
Cristina Romanelli
Programme Officer, Biodiversity, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organisation
Cristina Romanelli, is an environmental scientist and programme officer on biodiversity, climate and health with the World Health Organization. She has over 20 years of experience in policy evaluation and development, multi-stakeholder engagement, capacity-building, and interdisciplinary research at the nexus of biodiversity conservation and management, global health, climate change, and One Health. She has provided scientific and policy advice in both scientific research and regulatory-compliance settings. Prior to joining the WHO’s Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health she managed the WHO’s Joint Work Programme on biodiversity and health with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) for ten years.
She has served as an expert, resource person and lead author for the Inter-governmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), and led capacity-building activities bringing together Ministries of Health and those responsible for biodiversity conservation across some 100 countries. She was principal lead coordinating author of the WHO State of Knowledge Review on Biodiversity and Human Health, and led the development of Biodiversity-inclusive One Health Guidance adopted at the CBD 14th Conference of the Parties (COP 14) in 2018. At WHO, she also coordinates the Expert Working Group on Biodiversity, Climate, One Health and Nature-based Solutions.
