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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Omedi Moses Jura
Vice-Chair of the Advisory Board of the CTCN; and Member of The Secretariat to the National Climate Change Action Plan 2018-22 of Kenya
Engineer Omedi Moses Jura is in the Government of Kenya’s Secretariat of the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) 2018 – 2022 and NDC taskforces; and currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN). Mr. Jura is a Kenyan delegate to the UNFCCC and lead coordinator for the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) in climate technology development and transfer. He has 36 years of experience at various levels in the Government of Kenya; having worked at National Headquarters as the Deputy Director of the Climate Change Directorate at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and previously held senior roles in the Ministries of Water as well in the Ministry of Agriculture in various other capacities at provincial and district levels since 1981.
He carried out assorted official international assignments, including leading the Kenyan delegation in climate change negotiations, heading the National Climate Change Secretariat; spearheading various initiatives including the establishment of the Climate Change Directorate; development of the climate change framework policy and bill, the National Climate Change Response Strategy 2010 and the first Action Plan 2013-17. Eng. Jura was also involved in the formulation of the Climate Change Act 2016 and other programmes including the Water Towers Restoration and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), Climate and Clean Air Coalition initiatives and Low Emissions Capacity Building Programme.