A new key biodiversity platform for cross sectoral collaboration
For its inaugural launch, World Biodiversity Summit will help define what world leaders and the private sector in biodiversity and climate action need to do in the medium and long term to achieve sustainable development and hinder further biodiversity loss, focusing on partnerships and investment mechanisms as levers of progress. World Biodiversity Summit is a platform for responding to accelerating biodiversity loss, by using the Paris Agreement as a framework to learn from, promoting relevant solutions, innovations, and leadership networks, strengthening nature restoration and conservation. Nature-based solutions will be highlighted, from specificecosystems to global possibilities.
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James Schofield
Deputy Director, Industrial Transition Accelerator, MPP
James has 25 years of experience in strategy and energy scenarios planning, energy transition, and corporate affairs management. At Rabobank, James advised the CEO and Board to establish its presence in energy-related international fora. In Shell, James lead several initiatives including the launch of the company’s internal energy transition planning process, research into sectoral decarbonisation of the global economy (captured in the ‘A Better Life and Healthy Planet’ report) and an 18 month energy scenarios exercise with the Department of Energy of South Africa. He led Shell’s support to the establishment of the Energy Transitions Commission. As Vice President for Strategy and Planning, James helped translate Shell’s understanding of transition into corporate strategy and climate targets, and engaged investors and civil society to explain and mature the company’s approach to transition. Prior to Shell, James worked for both the BBC (as business correspondent in Moscow 2001-2003), and at the UN in Paris. James has a Masters in Political Science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques and a Law degree from Manchester University, UK.
