2020 GGSD Forum – Securing natural capital: Resilience, risk management and COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerabilities of our socioeconomic systems globally and exposed the risks that unsustainable business practices and personal behavior pose on human health and on our economies and societies. How to build resilience and sustainability in the recovery phase of this pandemic is becoming an overwhelmingly important topic for policymakers.

In this context, under the overarching theme of “Securing natural capital: Resilience, risk management and COVID-19”, the Forum this year will address the risks posed by unmitigated biodiversity loss and natural capital depletion for the resilience and sustainability of our economies and societies, and discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic is re-shaping the policy responses to cope with these issues.