European Business & Nature Summit 2021 - Scaling up business action for nature

Business leaders and policymakers will meet on 30 November and 1 December at the 2021 European Business and Nature Summit (EBNS) - a high-level political and technical forum - to capitalise on the growing awareness that businesses impact and depend on nature and the ecosystem services it provides. They will aim to mobilise the business community and strengthen the European "Business for Biodiversity movement" called upon by the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030.

The Summit will offer a mix of high-level plenary and in-depth thematic parallel sessions on topics such as:

• Tackling climate crisis and biodiversity loss - nature-based solutions, and their role in the economic transition

• Raising nature in corporate governance, management practices and economic decisions

• Innovations along companies' supply chains to preserve biodiversity

• Pioneering SMEs reinventing their relationship with biodiversity

• Dialogue between policy makers and business to accelerate change

• Business contribution to global biodiversity targets

• Natural capital and biodiversity risks, nature-positive investment and sustainable finance

The session dedicated to NbS Tackling climate, biodiversity & inequalities - Nature-based solutions, and their role in the economic transition will be on the 30/11/2021 from 11:15 to 12:45 (CET) with the following interventions: 

Innovative solutions:

• Magali Anderson, CSO, Holcim

• Marc Abadie, President, CDC Biodiversité

• Pierre-Yves Pouliquen, Senior VP, Group Sustainable Development SUEZ

• Helle Herk-Hansen, Vice President Environment, Vattenfall

• Julie Delcroix, Policy Officer Biodiversity and Nature-Based Solutions, DG RTD

• Gérard Bos, Director Global Business and Biodiversity Programme, IUCN

• Adrien Geiger, CSO, L'occitane

• Anne-Catherine Husson-Traoré, CEO, Novethic (Moderator)

FULL PROGRAM HERE