World Bank Group at COP15 on Biodiversity: Nature's Moment | Live from Montréal, Canada

Despite unprecedented biodiversity loss and the onset of a new mass extinction, natural systems continue to be degraded, both directly by human activities and indirectly by the broader climate crisis. The collective global challenge of both protecting and rejuvenating the world’s biodiversity has become more urgent than ever. Join from the floor of Palais des congrès de Montréal at COP15 in Canada, as global leaders convene to discuss the biodiversity imperative. Learn more: wrld.bg/jZBf50M5E93
Speakers
- Mari Pangestu, Managing Director, Development Policy and Partnerships, World Bank
- KM Reyes, Co-Founder and Adviser at the Centre for Sustainability PH
- Satyendra Prasad, Fiji's High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations
- Carole Laible, CEO of Domini Impact Investments
- Juan Manuel Santos, Former President of Colombia and Member of The Elders
- Cristina Mittermeier, Photographer, biologist, and conservationist
- Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Global Leader of Climate and Energy at the WWF and Former Minister of the Environment of Peru
- Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity
- Tony Juniper, Chair of Natural England
- Anne Larigauderie, Executive Secretary of the IPBES
- Moderator: Anita Anand, British radio and television presenter, journalist and author
00:00 Welcome! COP15: Nature's Moment
03:14 Opening remarks by Juan Manuel Santos
06:39 Panel discussion: The role of biodiversity in economic development
44:25 Closing remarks by Cristina Mittermeier
49:40 Explainer video: Putting nature at the core of development efforts
52:24 COP15: The "Other" COP
55:50 Panel discussion: The biodiversity imperative
1:31:22 Closing Remarks by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema
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