Biodiversity is essential for human life, yet we are losing biodiversity at unprecedented rates. This presents as much risk to our economy, society and environment as climate change does, but there is still much confusion and misperception about biodiversity – what it is, what it does, and why it matters.

This event as part of the 2020 Development and Climate Days, held during the Understanding Risk Forum 2020 on 3 December, brought together expert speakers from climate, development and business backgrounds to discuss why biodiversity matters and outline how biodiversity loss is a critical and underestimated risk.

The speakers were Joanna Elliott, senior conservation director, cross-cutting programmes, Fauna & Flora International; Dilys Roe, principal researcher at the International Institute for environment and Development (IIED); Natalie Seddon, professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford and director of the Nature-based Solutions Initiative; and Liz Rogers, vice-president, environmental technology, BP International.

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