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
Lasse Miettinen
Director, Sustainability Solutions, The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra
Lasse Miettinen is Acting Director of Sustainability Solutions at Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund – an independent expert organization mandated by the Parliament of Finland that works towards making Finland the pioneer of sustainable well-being. Before his current position as head of Sitra’s efforts in tackling the ecological crisis, Lasse’s job at Sitra focused on mainstreaming biodiversity into the heart of both public and private sector’s decision-making.
In his career before joining Sitra, Lasse spent 15 years in the labyrinths of political decision-making, in positions such as Special Adviser for the Minister of the Environment, and Secretary General of the Finnish Green Party. In his career, he has covered pretty much everything in the field of environmental policy, from climate regulation to environmental subsidies and taxes, from international treaties to endemic endangered species. He is especially thrilled by private sector initiatives spearheading natural capital approaches and the development of biodiversity metrics.
