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.
Session 1A
Increasing Clean Energy Capital Flows to Emerging Markets and Developing Economies
11:00-
11:45
Public and private sector best practices and cases on achieving a better form of growth that can deliver both development and climate goals in regions that need it most. This session will explore innovative and leading financing and cooperation, ensuring that comprehensive and effective finance is deployed to catalyse investments in emerging economies and developing countries at scale.
Selwin Hart (Keynote)
Special Adviser and Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Action for Climate Action
United Nations
Heather McGeory (Moderator)
Global Lead, Climate and Sustainability
APCO Impact
Jon Johnsen
CEO
PKA
Arne Staal
CEO; Group Head of Benchmarks & Indices
FTSE Russell; LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)
Walid Oueslati
Acting Head of Environment, Transitions & Resilience Division
OECD Environment Directorate
Mafalda Duarte
CEO
Climate Investment Funds