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.
London, UK
28 June 2022
- Alongside London Climate Action Week
Aimée Christensen
Senior Adviser, World Climate Foundation and CEO, Christensen Global
Aimée Christensen is founder and CEO of Christensen Global, a strategic advisory firm developing, accelerating and scaling solutions for impact. She has three decades of experience in policy, law, investment, philanthropy and business including at Baker & McKenzie, Google, The White House, The World Bank, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Christensen drafted and negotiated the first U.S. bilateral and regional climate change agreements (U.S.-Costa Rica, et. al., 1994-1997), drafted the first-ever university endowment climate investment policy (Stanford University, 1999), and has advised clients including The B Team, Clinton Global Initiative, Duke Energy, The Elders, Global Ocean Commission, Microsoft, Virgin, and Wolfensohn + Co. She served as Senior Adviser to the United Nations Secretary General’s High-level Group on Sustainable Energy For All (2012) and founded and led the Sun Valley Institute for Resilience and Sun Valley Forum (2015-2020).
She is an Aspen Institute Catto Fellow (2010), a Hillary Institute Leadership Laureate (2011) and an Idaho Business Review Woman of the Year (2020). She has a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.A. from Smith College.