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
21 September 2023
SECOND, New York, USA
Alongside UNGA 78 & Climate Week NYC
Arnold Puech d’Alissac
President, World Farmers' Organisation (WFO)
President of the World Farmers' Organisation (WFO) since June 2022, Arnold Puech d'Alissac is a dedicated family farmer from the Normandy region in northern France, running a farm that produces free-range poultry, beef cattle, and various crops in Pissy-Pôville.
Arnold Puech d'Alissac has always dedicated his life to advocating for farmers at the national, regional and global levels. His strong commitment and sense of responsibility towards the farming community began during his role as President of the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA) from 1999 to 2001.
Bureau member of the Fédération National des Syndicats d'Exploitant Agricoles(FNSEA), he represented the European Constituency on the WFO Board of Directors from 2017 to 2022, holding the positions of Treasurer and Vice President of the Organisation
