Speaker: Nature in a changing world

Dawn Carr of Nature Conservancy Canada (NCC) recently participated in the 2026 UN Biodiversity Conference, COP17, in Yerevan, Armenia, and the UN Climate Change Conference, COP31, in Antalya, Türkiye, and will offer an insider’s perspective on a rapidly changing conservation landscape. We are living through a period of extraordinary change. Climate change, biodiversity loss, economic uncertainty and geopolitical upheaval are reshaping the world around us. They are also changing the way we think about conservation. For decades, climate change and biodiversity loss were often treated as separate environmental challenges. Increasingly, we understand that they are deeply interconnected and that our responses must be as well. Canada has an important role to play in this global effort. In March 2026, the federal government released A Force of Nature: Canada’s Strategy to Protect Nature, an approach that positions nature not simply as something to be protected, but as foundational to Canada’s economy, sovereignty, well-being and resilience.