Nature in the City: toward nature-positive buildings and urbanization
Big Room
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) presents a side event that will delve into innovative strategies and best practices for incorporating biodiversity into urban settings and corporate landscapes, utilizing a comprehensive approach that involves both government and society. This gathering will unite urban planners, corporate executives, environmental specialists, and policymakers to highlight successful case studies, address challenges, and pinpoint practical solutions for promoting biodiversity within constructed environments.
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework acknowledge the need for the full integration of biodiversity into policies, regulations, planning and development processes withing and across all levels of government and across all sectors (target 14) and to take legal, administrative, or policy measures to encourage and enable transnational companies to regularly monitor, assess and disclose their risks, dependencies and impacts on nature (target 15).
This side event will discuss emerging frameworks for companies from the built environment to report on biodiversity risks and dependencies, how cities are committing to favour healthy co-existence of humans and nature in urban development and analysis of the impacts of building materials on nature using ENCORE 2.0.
The side event will be co-hosted by ICLEI, IUCN and WBCSD, and supported by Arup, Holcim, the World Bank and Second Nature. The side event will include statements of support and ambition from high level representatives of different municipalities, companies, conservation and business networks.
The speakers of this event are:
Boris Erg, Director – IUCN European regional office
Xueman Wang, Senior Urban Specialist – World Bank
Ingrid Coetzee, Director Biodiversity, Nature & Health – ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center
Tom Butterworth, Regional Nature Director – Arup
Robin Grossinger Principal – Second Nature
Raquel Garavito, Manager – Cali Urban Development Company
Francois Morreau, Head of Urban Ecology Agency, Paris
Antonio Carrillo, Vice-president, Sustainability / Renata Pollini, Head of sustainable construction and nature – Holcim