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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Fighting climate change requires protecting biodiversity and a fourfold increase in investments in Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to achieve 2050 net-zero targets. NbS can offer high returns on investment, yet the key drivers such as technology and innovation remain underdeveloped. This session explored the answer for the following questions: how can emerging initiatives, such as the TNFD, support the assessment of emerging nature-related risks and opportunities for businesses? What are some concrete recommendations to mainstream global financial flows shift to nature-positive outcomes?

Dr Harvey Locke
(Moderator)
Vice Chair for Nature Positive, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and Y2Y

Martin Berg
CEO, Climate Asset Management

David Craig
Co-ChairTaskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

Maria Nazarova-Doyle
Head of Responsible Investments and Stewardship, Scottish Widows
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Anita de Horde
Co-founder and Executive Director, Finance for Biodiversity Foundation