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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Dr Tony Rooke
Executive Director and Head of Transition Advisory, Climate Risk and Resilience, Howden
Tony has over 25 years’ global experience in strategy advisory, risk management, disclosure and programme delivery, with over 18 years as a leader and expert in climate change, environment and sustainability issues affecting businesses and financial institutions.  He joined Howden from the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) where he was responsible for delivering practitioner guidance on how financial institutions can achieve their Net Zero in their emissions reduction's targets. This included defining transition finance, transition planning and use of sectoral pathways and scenarios to work with counterparties on assessing and achieving their own emissions targets. He was also part of the delivery group for the UK’s gold standard on transition planning, and a reviewer of the World Energy Outlook 2022
