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
By establishing the World Climate Foundation, our aim is to create an organisation that will have systemic impact on the global transition to a low-carbon and clean economy
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Developing and running environmental impact platforms in line with the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
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Providing an international growth engine for new impact organisations that can accelerate the transition businesses and markets in line with environmental stewardship
Context
Current global issues are inevitably seen through the lens of the ongoing pandemic, including global warming and loss of biodiversity. Focus on how we lay the foundations for the world to emerge safer and more resilient on all fronts.
10 years exist to ensure that global temperatures stay within the limits of the Paris Agreements on Climate Change. While the biodiversity arena still needs to build basic institutions for target setting and public-private collaboration, the threats from loss of biodiversity are nonetheless just as imminent.
Cross-sector dialogue and partnerships in the environmental arenas will guarantee the world finds solutions.
Addressing Every Need
Major stakeholders need to work in partnership over the next decade to create cleaner industries and solutions for the emerging climate crisis. Increased pressure from new generations of people and voters, and emergence of new technologies and disruptive business models are adding speed from the marketplace to an otherwise slow political process of change.
Trends foreseen
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People will increasingly formulate demands with the aim to influence governments and businesses policies.
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Climate policies will be moving from the international level to the regional and national levels.
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Businesses will be going from strategic positioning to real de-carbonization.
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Investors will be required to clean-up existing and establish sustainable investment portfolios.
Mission
Our mission is to catalyse a faster transition to a clean and net-zero economy through cross-sector dialogue, innovative partnerships, and investments in sustainable solutions.
Vision
A future where pledges and commitments are transformed via actions into impact that align with the required outcomes of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals