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​
Helena Gualinga
Co-founder of Indigenous Youth Collective of Amazon Defenders
Helena Gualinga, 20, is an Indigenous climate justice and human rights defender who advocates for the protection of the Amazon Rainforest and Indigenous people’s rights. Gualinga is from the Kichwa community of Sarayaku, a community that has been fighting against big oil for decades.
Gualinga is a member of the Indigenous Youth Collective of Amazon Defenders. She has attended several conferences such as COP 26 and UN summits advocating for Kawsak Sacha, The Living Forest Proposal which is the cosmovision of the Sarayaku people.
Gualinga has also spoken up about inclusion and representation of Indigenous People in decision making and other spaces of influence.
