10/10/2025
16:00 - 17:30
Virtual Channel 1
, En ligne uniquement
Session avec interprétation
Pourquoi participer
Mainstreaming biodiversity is key to ensuring a prosperous future for people and the planet. But is it feasible? Join us to explore challenges, share insights, and discuss opportunities to integrate nature into infrastructure development.
Description de la séance
Infrastructure is essential to meet human needs and support economic growth, but traditional ways of designing and building infrastructure can drive habitat loss and fragmentation, open access for illegal logging and hunting, disrupt wildlife migration pathways, and degrade biodiversity and ecosystem services. With $139 trillion of sustainable infrastructure investment needed to reach net zero by 2050, the sector must change course. Sustainable approaches that contribute to biodiversity gains and prioritize inclusive, nature-based, and zero-carbon infrastructure development can produce positive, lasting outcomes for people and nature. Participants will discuss how to incorporate nature and climate into the infrastructure lifecycle, considering different socio-political contexts. Together we will explore examples, such as the Global Environment Facility-funded Greening Infrastructure Development Integrated Program, and recommendations from different sectors on critical upstream actions (e.g., planning, policies and regulations, financial mechanisms, institutional capacity) that can drive system-wide change in how infrastructure is built and natural infrastructure is maintained.Organised by
World Wildlife Fund - US ( United States of America )
Partenaires
Speaker
National Technical Executive, Ecology and Adjunct Assoc Professor, WSP Australia and The University of Melbourne
Policy analyst, Green reconstruction of Ukraine, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Head GEF Biodiversity and Land Degradation Unit, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas 2021-2025
Moderator
