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.
By establishing the World Climate Foundation as a commercial foundation, our aim is to create an organisation that will have systemic impact on the global transition to a low-carbon and clean economy through two distinct methods:
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by developing and running environmental impact platforms in line with the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
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an international growth engine for new impact enterprises that can help transition businesses and markets in line with environmental stewardship
Turning Commitments into Action
Our mission is to facilitate the transition to a clean and net-zero economy through cross-sector dialogue, inspirational partnerships and investments in sustainable solutions. Our vision is a decade from 2020 to 2030 where climate and sustainability commitments are transformed via actions into impact that align with the required outcomes of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Goals.
World Climate Foundation is an impact-oriented organisation that works with inspiring leaders from government, business, financial institutions and civil society organisations to build resilience, and enables the necessary transformation that addresses both the climate change, biosecurity and biodiversity crises. Through its collaborative, high-level network the World Climate Foundation identifies and accelerates cross-sector implementation of markets, technologies and policies, at the required scale, to realise change.
This year, on our roadmap to and at COP26 in Glasgow, World Climate Foundation launched several initiatives and hosted successful activities and events on the policies, innovation and investments needed towards a net-zero and nature-positive economy. In line with the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action, World Climate Foundation created impactful platforms for multi-sector stakeholders to build partnerships and strong ambition loops to foster climate and nature innovations and solutions, and further catalysed and presented strong pledges and finance commitments from its partners.
Recent Activities
During COP26 in Glasgow, World Climate Foundation successfully facilitated impact
across several events.
World Climate Summit
With our biggest forum in over ten years, the Summit proved itself as the most important side event of COP26 in Glasgow.
Over two days, we convened public and private sector leaders who spurred ambitious climate commitments and action to reach 2030 targets and net-zero transitions.
Climate Investment Coalition
International public-private partnership to accelerate investments in climate and green recovery towards 2030.
Announced US$130 billion in collective commitments at COP26 towards clean energy and climate investments by 2030 mobilised by Nordic & UK pension funds to be reported on annually
World Biodiversity Summit
This year, we launched the first platform for public-private partnerships across environmental interest organisations and high environmental impact industries and sectors.
Hosted in three parts, the event culminated on the sidelines of COP26, spurring collaboration on innovation, investments and policies for biodiversity.
Climate Commitments
Seeking ambitious net-zero and short-term climate commitments from engaged partners and stakeholders.
Key initiatives through collaboration with asset managers, corporates and others to achieve strong ambition loops through public-private partnerships.
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Statement on Covid-19:
The World Climate Foundation cares deeply about the health and well-being of our community and follows closely the guidelines of WHO and local health authorities. We have great sympathy for those being directly affected by Covid-19.
In our work, this has meant moving green investments for economic recovery and resilience management to the top of our agenda.
Furthermore, we have adopted our delivery format to enable innovative, high-quality digital services, in-person or in a hybrid format.
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