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
Leah Canning
Director, Circular Economy, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Ms. Canning joined Environment and Climate Change Canada in April 2018. She led the planning and delivery of the World Circular Economy Forum 2021 hosted by Canada, and is currently the Director of Circular Economy undertaking strategic policy development and policy planning related to the circular economy. Prior to this, she held multiple positions in the environment and health portfolios within the Government of Canada. Ms. Canning has also worked in the private and charitable sectors. In her free time, Ms. Canning enjoys volunteering in her community and dragon boating.
Ms. Canning has a Bachelor of Science from McGill University and a Master of Theological Studies from the University of Toronto, Wycliffe College.
