Session 1 – Leaders Event for Nature & People

The global goal for nature defines what is needed to halt and reverse today’s catastrophic loss of nature. It is supported by a number of organizations that ask governments to adopt the goal.

Global calls to reverse the loss of biodiversity. Organizations representing tens of millions of individuals globally, along with hundreds of businesses, issue coordinated calls to global leaders for action, before it's too late.

WWF is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.

The 2020 edition of WWF's Nature In All Goals publication shows how we can restore our relationship with nature to realise the promise of the SDGs and Leave No One Behind.

In the 13th edition of the report and provides the scientific evidence to back what nature has been demonstrating repeatedly: unsustainable human activity is pushing the planet’s natural systems to the edge.

The Summit will highlight the crisis facing humanity from the degradation of biodiversity and the urgent need to accelerate action on biodiversity for sustainable development.

26 financial institutions from around the globe will launch the Finance for Biodiversity Pledge during session 2.1. The signatories will commit to making a positive contribution to biodiversity through their activities and investments and call upon world leaders to reverse nature loss this decade. The Pledge text, guidance document and CEO statements are available after the launch.

Updated to include insights from the covid-19 global pandemic, The Planetary Emergency Plan 2.0 makes the case that we are unequivocally in the midst of a planetary emergency. The plan provides ten commitments to protect the global commons and public goods as well with ten essential transformative actions to drive systems change and stabilize the earth.