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.

Faith Ward
Chief Responsible Investment Officer for Brunel Pension Partnership, Chair of IIGCC
Faith is currently Chief Responsible Investment Officer for Brunel Pension Partnership and Chair of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). These roles enable her to advocate for better appreciation of systemic risk as well as design solutions that embed such risks, like climate change, into the operations of finance and investment, an industry she has served for over 25 years.
Faith’s other roles include member of the Ethics Investment Advisory Group for the Church of England National Investing Bodies; member of SASB’s Investor Advisory Group; co-chair of the European and UK Working Group of SASB; and member of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) Investment Advisory Group and is a Climate Ambassador for the National Federation of Women's Institutes. Faith is a founder of the Transition Pathway Initiative and was formerly its co-chair. She was also the chair of the Reporting and Assessment Advisory Committee for the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI).