Joint media release: Countdown is on for world-leading Australian environmental summit

Minister for the Environment and Water, the Hon Tanya Plibersek MP
NSW Minister for the Environment, the Hon Penny Sharpe

Speakers for the world’s first Global Nature Positive Summit in Sydney from 8-10 October have been announced.

Leaders and experts joining Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek at the event include Nature Positive Initiative Convenor Marco Lambertini, Global Environment Facility CEO and Chair Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Centre for International Forestry Research, World Agroforestry CEO Dr Eliane Ubalijoro, Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Cathy Foley AO PSM, and Nature Finance Council Chair Ken Henry AC.

The sessions and site visits will cover a range of topics including:

• driving sustainable ocean economies and ‘blue finance’
• developing nature reporting frameworks
• business leadership on sustainability
• boosting First Nations leadership in nature repair
• showcasing nature repair in practice, across landscapes, seascapes and borders.

Repairing nature is a huge job and governments can’t do it alone.

The Summit is the next step towards turbocharging private sector investment in nature repair.

Hosted by the Federal and NSW governments, the Summit brings together Ministers, experts, environmental groups, businesses, First Nations people, community leaders and scientists.

View the program and speaker list at Global Nature Positive Summit.

Quotes attributable to the Federal Minister for the Environment and Water, Tanya Plibersek:

“Australia can be a global leader in protecting and restoring nature, and stopping biodiversity loss, and we can do it in partnership with business and society.

“This world first summit will bring together global leaders to discuss next steps for a nature positive future, so that our kids and grandkids will be able to enjoy the wild places we love today.”

Quotes attributable to the NSW Minister for the Environment Penny Sharpe:

“Getting nature on the path to recovery is as important as tackling climate change.

“Nature positive, and investing in nature, are newish concepts – and they are key to turning around destruction and pollution of land, waterways and air, and of stopping biodiversity loss.

“We must all be the stewards of protecting what’s left and restoring what’s been harmed.”