Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Biodiversity topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Presenter urges resource mobilization to curb biodiversity loss at Nairobi session
Summary
At a Nairobi session on biodiversity, a presenter said biodiversity underpins food, water and climate resilience and called for stepped-up resource mobilization and finance-sector attention to counter accelerating biodiversity loss. No specific funding amounts or implementing agencies were named in the transcript.
A presenter at a Nairobi biodiversity session said biodiversity underpins food, clean water and climate resilience and urged participants to prioritize resource mobilization to address accelerating losses. "Biodiversity is the diversity of all life on Earth and it underpins our ability to live and thrive on this planet," the presenter said.
The speaker warned that biodiversity loss "continues to outpace all the efforts we're making to stop it," and identified one of the key topics at the Nairobi meeting as how to mobilize resources and mainstream biodiversity into decision-making and finance-sector practices. The presenter said domestic measures to raise resources will be needed alongside changes in how financial institutions consider biodiversity in their actions.
The talk emphasized practical framing: "Working with nature rather than against nature helps all of us," the presenter said, urging that agencies and investors consider nature-based outcomes in planning. The transcript did not specify funding amounts, implementing agencies, or concrete policy proposals; those details were described as subjects for the ongoing discussions in Nairobi.
The session's next steps, as stated in the remarks, are continued discussion in Nairobi on resource mobilization and integrating biodiversity into financial and domestic decision-making. The presenter did not provide a timetable or named sponsors for specific funding initiatives in the portion of the transcript provided.
