Programme

The Role of Business Sustainability Leadership in Accelerating Nature Action

She will take to the stage to highlight why pledges and commitments on paper are not enough and why, more than ever, we need people talking with their guts to convince the world that urgent action on climate change and biodiversity loss is needed now.

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Nature-Positive is a fundamental change of paradigm. It is a direction of travel and a global goal. However, it needs to be measurable and verifiable if we are to reverse biodiversity loss. Panellists will discuss the importance of building in living nature, as well as the value of having targets and measurements, with a focus on biodiversity.

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This session will help us understand how financing and resources can best be connected to successful conservation outcomes for the planet. The GBF targets and 30x30 ambitions provide the scope and the scale of what is needed, and calls on an unprecedented level of resourcing by Government and society. How can we make this investment work, and deliver the outcomes we need?

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This session will focus on the TNFD framework, to be released in September 2023. IUCN, partners, business and other stakeholders will take the stage to share their views and experiences incorporating biodiversity in the TNFD framework and towards a nature positive future. The session will also feature a report back from the Building Bridges 2023 event, taking place the week prior to the IUCN Leaders Forum.

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This session will explore what is keeping financing hurdles in place, the prospects to overcome them in the near future, and what we could expect as the resulting roles from private and public finance in support of advancing GBF-aligned investment.

This session will consider lessons from challenges and successes of carbon markets for biodiversity credit markets; explore new products being designed for biodiversity credits, and their contributions to the goals; and explore ways in which biodiversity credit markets can contribute to GBF delivery. The session will also connect with IUCN and partners’ work on nature-positive and IUCN’s biodiversity-positive approach.

This session will provide the space for an insightful discussion on how biodiversity can help to promote and enable healthier societies, and further explore how the environment and health sectors can start working together to drive a global agenda for policy and action related to biodiversity conservation, restoration and sustainable use that generates or enhances human health benefits.

This session will hear from subnational governments on how they are developing and implementing projects that contribute to multiple biodiversity and climate targets in an integrated, practical, and effective manner. It will also consider how provinces can best design, track results and report on progress in a credible and assured manner.

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Prepare to unlock new opportunities, build valuable connections, and advance your professional network like never before. Our structured networking event is designed to maximize your interactions and ensure meaningful conversations. Whether you're seeking partnerships, exploring collaborations, or simply expanding your circle, this event offers a structured platform for you to engage with like-minded individuals. Get ready to exchange ideas, share experiences, and forge lasting connections that can propel your career or business to new heights.

Come and listen to inspiring young leaders and entrepeneurs, selected from a pool of over 3,500 global applicants, as they pitch their innovative solutions to address some of the most complex nature and biodiversity challenges of our time. Following a short pitch presentation, each changemaker will respond to questions from a jury panel as well as the audience.

Partnerships for the global goals: Subnational governments and the GBF.

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Piloting nature positive – what are market leaders up to?

Indigenous model and activist.

She will take to the stage to share her unique story about growing up in the Brazilian Amazon and why she has become a passionate global voice for Indigenous rights and Mother Nature.

The importance of living-nature in company reporting and disclosure

There is growing recognition today of the deep interlinkages between the climate change and biodiversity loss crises. This session will practically explore what it means to integrate the nature and climate agendas in order to support the goals of both the Paris Agreement and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. It will also identify what the major implementation barriers are, and how these can be overcome by various actors, ahead of CBD SBSTTA25 and UNFCCC COP28, including on mobilising greater financing.

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The science is clear, an adequate response to climate change and biodiversity loss demands an integrated approach. The ENACT Partnership (Enhancing Nature-based Solutions for Accelerated Climate Transformation) was launched by the Egyptian COP Presidency at UNFCCC COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh in collaboration with the Government of Germany and IUCN to achieve this integration on a global scale through accelerated implementation of high-integrity Nature-based Solutions (NbS). This session will provide a high-level forum between State and non-state actors on key efforts toward policy cohesiveness and action and set the focus for ENACT and the ENACT-ing A Billion campaign which will operationalize the partnership’s NbS Goals.

This session will showcase the transformative potential of innovative technology and digital solutions that – when combined with participatory, multi-stakeholder processes – can transform biodiversity conservation and contribute to delivery of GBF targets. The session will spotlight innovative technology and digital solutions to measure, monitor, and report on progress towards the implementation of the GBF goals on the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystems by 2030.

This session will bring IPLCs in conversation with business and finance actors to discuss inclusive finance for the global goals. The session will focus on the urgent need for direct access to resources for the implementation of the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Fund. The newly established Podong Indigenous Peoples’ Initiative, a collaboration between IUCN, IUCN IPO members and the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB), will also be presented.

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