Open Forum: Sustaining Life on Earth

Overview Speakers

According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report, biodiversity is more at risk now than at any other point in human history. Yet $44 trillion of economic value generation – over half the world’s total GDP – is moderately or highly dependent on nature.

How can unprecedented collaboration between science, business and policy safeguard life and livelihoods on the planet?

Deep Saini

President and Vice-Chancellor, McGill University

David Obura

Director, Coastal Oceans Research and Development in the Indian Ocean (CORDIO) East Africa

Xiye Bastida

Founder, Re-Earth Initiative

Ursula Schneider Schüttel

President, Pro Natura

Maria Susana Muhamad González

Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia

Sabrina Soussan

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SUEZ

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