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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Stephen Petranek
Operating Partner
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Ocean Zero LLC
As the Operating Partner of Ocean Zero LLC, Petranek invests in young innovative companies that can make a breakthrough difference in decarbonizing shipping, ferries, fishing, and recreational boating on the world’s oceans, rivers, and lakes.
He also serves as Investment Advisor to a sister fund, Virya LLC, which supports ventures that have high initial impact and scalability to eliminate global greenhouse gas emissions and sequester CO2.
As a lifelong journalist with expertise in science and finance, Petranek has been the editor of The Washington Post Magazine, science editor at Life Magazine, and editor-in-chief of Discover Magazine, as well as editor-in-chief of the financial newsletter Breakthrough Technology Alert. He is a board member of five companies: one in Sweden, one in France, one in Germany, one in Canada, and one in the United States.
