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

Sabrina Soussan

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SUEZ

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