📅 14 October, 10 November 2021 | Virtual
Hosted during the NY Climate Week and on the sidelines of both the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow and the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in Kunming, China, this inaugural event will address the potential for science-based targets, ecosystem services, updated economic models and public-private partnerships to mitigate ecosystem degradation. By convening leaders from government, business, international organizations, academia, and civil society, the Summit offers a dedicated opportunity for increasing the effectiveness of mitigation strategies and scaling promising solutions through cross-sectoral collaboration.
World Biodiversity Summit will serve as a platform for conveying transformational commitments, highlighting bold leadership and investments, building cross-sectoral partnerships, and developing initiatives for the conservation and regeneration of the world’s ecosystems. As such, it is uniquely poised to channel needed investment into restoring planetary health.
The Summit is linked and highlighted as a key initiative of the World Climate Foundation, which hosts a roadmap of activities for strengthening both the global biodiversity and the climate agenda.
Defining this pivotal era, the World Climate Forum works as a robust network and toolkit for governments, businesses, and institutions to transform vision into reality and provides a bridge between the private, public, and civil society sectors for collaborative action for net-zero emissions, nature and the green recovery. We do this by convening relevant thought-leading stakeholders to discuss policy, business, and finance, informed by science, best practices, and real experience.
As an official side event to the yearly COP negotiations, in the past ten years, the World Climate Summit has been successful in creating private-public partnerships aligned with the Paris Agreement, becoming the platform for connecting markets with policies, with one main goal: to flatten the climate curve.
Evidence of biodiversity loss is everywhere and climate change is contributing to this loss. But, biodiversity loss does not only refer to the loss of plants and animals, it threatens all life on our planet. The state of the natural environment is directly linked to our ability to adapt, mitigate and solve the challenges that our planet is facing nowadays. As we aim to bring economic growth within safe planetary boundaries, achieve the Paris Agreement goals and support the Post-2020 Global Framework, cross-sector synergy is crucial.
The goal of the World Biodiversity Summit is to bridge biodiversity and climate and to accelerate investment-driven solutions to the biodiversity crisis. The Summit will serve as a convening for leaders from across public and private sectors, to set the world on a path to achieve the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity through actionable leadership and supporting the facilitation of a task force on nature-related financial disclosures.
​Measurable targets and commitments will be established, determining best practices for innovation and collaboration and creating public-private partnerships that will strengthen initiatives to prevent the ongoing destruction of biodiversity, therefore contributing to a healthy planet.
Original Source: World Biodiversity Summit
