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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Lucy Auden
Head of Sustainable Investments Programme, C40 Cities
Lucy Auden, Head of Sustainable Investments Programme, C40 Cities
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Lucy oversees C40's work helping cities to champion fossil-free, sustainable investment through pension fund engagement; municipal investment decisions; advocacy; and exploring ways to attract private and institutional capital for climate projects. This includes C40's Divest/Invest network and Accelerator, a group of 20 global cities representing +US$500 billion of municipal and pension fund assets, that have committed to leverage their climate leadership to rapidly scale up investment in a greener, fairer future and divest from fossil fuels.
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Previously Lucy managed the Investment Leaders Group at the CISL, a US$12 trillion network of investors advocating for sustainable investment through applied research; and was Head of ESG for Savills Investment Management. She has an MSc from UCL in Environment and Sustainable Development and worked with local communities in Freetown, Sierra Leone building capacity in response to flooding and intersecting climate crises.
