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.
Climate Investment Summit will convene high-level speakers from government, institutional investors and private sector developers and solution providers, to participate in panel discussions, fireside chats and interviews. This site will continuously be updated with speakers for Climate Investment Summit 2021 as they are being confirmed.
Climate Investment Summit 2020 Speakers

Ban Ki-moon
Developer
Global Center on Adaptation
8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

Barbara Buchner
Developer
Global Managing Director
CPI

Dr. Rabia Ferroukhi
Director of Knowledge, Policy and Finance Center, IRENA
Developer

Patricia Espinosa
Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Developer

Patricia Fuller
Developer
Climate Ambassador, Government of Canada

Dan Jorgensen
Minister of Climate, Energy & Utilities, Government of Denmark
Developer

Faith Birol
Developer
Executive Director
IEA

Dr. Patrick Verkooijen
CEO
Chair of Executive Board
Global Center on Adaptation

Ambroise Fayolle
Vice-President, European Investment Bank
Developer

Christian Kettel Thomsen
Vice-President, European Investment Bank
Developer

Marcel Beukeboom
Climate Envoy
Government of the Netherlands

Torben Möger Pedersen
CEO
Pension Denmark
Developer

Ian de Cruz
Developer
Global Director
P4G

Peter Kjærgaard
Head of Nykredit Wealth Management
Member of Group Executive Committee
Chairman
The Danish Investment Association
Developer

Anthony Cox
Deputy Director,
OECD Environment Directorate

Anthony Nyong
Director of Climate Change and Green Growth, African Development Bank
Developer

Jan Erik Saugestad
CEO
Storebrand Asset Management

Gonzalo Sáenz de Miera
Director of Climate Change
Iberdrola
Developer

Terhi Lehtonen
State Secretary, Ministry for the Environment, Government of Finland
Developer

Ulrik Noedgaard
CEO
Finance Denmark
Developer

Peter Lindegaard
CIO
Industriens Pension
Developer

Vicki Bakhshi
Director, Analyst, Responsible Investment Team, BMO Global Asset Management
Developer

Luca De Lorenzo
Director, Head of Sustainability and Mandate, Nordic Investment Bank
Developer

Dr Helena Wright
Vice President
WWF Singapore
Developer

Ole Krogh Petersen
CEO
Danica Pension
Developer

Christian Hyldahl
Developer
Managing Director,
Co-Head of Continental Europe & Head of
Nordics, BlackRock

Peter Damgaard Jensen
Chair Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)
Co-Chair CIC

Dana Marie Perkins
Head of EMEA BloombergNEF

Nigel Topping
UK High-Level Climate Action Champion, UK

Thomas Fekete
EMEA Head of Strategy and Products for Sustainable Investing,
BlackRock
Developer

Felipe Larraín
Professor of Economics
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile)
Developer

John Mulligan
Developer
Director and Climate Change Lead
World Gold Council

Menno Snel
Member of the Board, Chair of Investment Committee
APG
Developer

Nathalie Dogniez
EMEA ESG Leader, PwC Luxembourg Partner
Developer

Erik Eliasson
Head of Sustainable Investment
Danske Bank
Developer

Francesco La Camera
Director-General
IRENA

Fleming Voetmann
Vice-President Sustainability
FLSmidth
Developer

Nils Bolmstrand
CEO
Nordea Asset Management
Developer

Stephanie Pfeiffer
CEO
Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)
Developer

Kent Damsgaard
CEO
Insurance & Pension Denmark
Developer

Jon Johnsen
CEO
PKA

Victoria Barron
Head of Sustainable
Investment
BT Pension Scheme

Anup Jagwani
Developer
Manager for Climate Finance and Policy
IFC

Emelia Holdaway
Policy Programme Director
Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)
Developer

Jaehyang So
Strategy and Partnerships, Global Center on Adaptation