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.
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With limited time to mitigate climate change impacts, this high-level closing panel will conclude on key recommendations for investors and financial institutions to align global finance flows with net-zero emissions and climate-resilient development, including decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors. How can we catalyse a generational shift toward climate investments, technologies, and solutions this decade? Ahead of the upcoming COP28, what are strategies to transition from an ROI-only approach to a holistic perspective that incorporates climate change impact?

Claire Elsdon
(Moderator)
Global Director for Capital Markets, CDP

John Mulligan
Director, Market Relations & Climate Change Lead, World Gold Council

Chang-Ken Lee
President, Cathay Financial Holdings

Laura Hillis
Director, Climate & Environment, Church of England Pensions Board