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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The energy crisis underscores the potential of energy efficiency in mobilising finance and investments to reduce electricity consumption in the built environment. This panel session defined key actions, best practices, and cross-sector partnerships to create and scale markets for building renovation.
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What are some clear transition risks in decarbonising the built environment? How ca we account for successful asset valuation across emerging markets, as well as in the OECD markets?

Emma Harvey-Smith
(Moderator)
Programme Director, Green Finance Institute

Edward Vaughan Dixon
Head of Responsible Investment - Real Assets, Aviva Investors

Lloyd Cochrane
Head of Mortgages, NatWest

Julie Emmrich
Sustainable Finance Lead, World Green Building Council