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AGENDA
Knowledge hub
The Knowledge Hub provides space for informative presentations and case studies on data, tools, and approaches for nature.
Action streams
The Action Streams are a series of interactive engagements and workshops with attendees. They are actions and solutions focused on key nature-related topics.
Specific timings and more sessions to be announced in due course
Building Confidence in Valuation: Enhancing Transparency and Accountability for the Private Sector through Structured Governance
Capitals Coalition
Theme: Data, technology and tools
Exploring practical applications of the Capitals Coalition’s Beta Governance for Valuation framework. Through an action-oriented dialogue, participants will learn to implement structured governance that strengthens confidence and drives strategic and informed decision-making.
Demystifying the Implementation of Effective Collective Action
Proforest
Theme: Collective action
Proforest will be drawing on 25 years of on-the-ground experience to deliver a knowledge hub with the Consumer Goods Forum’s Forest Positive Coalition (CGF FPC) focused on effective collective action for nature. The session will feature Proforest’s experience bridging and convening stakeholders across different sectors, sharing lessons learned and practical implementation steps to take action at landscape and sectoral levels.
Designing Nature-Positive Aligned Business Models
CISL
Theme: Shifting systems and sectors
Enabling participants to understand nature-positive business model archetypes, and how they could be applied. Feedback will be gathered to refine the typology and consider the barriers and enablers for adopting and scaling.
Accelerating action at the biodiversity, climate and water nexus
UNEP-WCMCThis workshop will build from the opening plenary exploring the outputs of the IPBES nexus assessment and what it means for scaling integrated approaches from business & finance.
Theme: Nexus approaches
Finance & business dialogues – Transition plans and physical risks
UNEP-FI and UNEP-WCMC
Interactive dialogues workshops will bring together business and finance leaders to discuss transition plans and physical risks focusing on the immediate concerns and risk management approaches.
Theme: Collective action
Biodiversity Related Risks and Opportunities to the Financial SectorWageningen Economic Research & Foundation for Sustainable Development
This session uses the sights of the 'Biodiversity Related Risks and Opportunities to the Financial Sector' project, bridging a critical gap for calculating monetary estimates of nature-related risks. By aligning science-based biodiversity loss scenarios with advanced macroeconomic modelling, the initiative provides robust tools and insights to help the financial sector identify biodiversity risks and abatement measures opportunities.
Theme: Financing Mechanisms
Accelerating nature finance and investing in natural capital
CISL and UNEP-WCMC (A-track)
This workshop will explore ‘nature information pathways’ and financing natural capital. Attendees will help steer thinking around a publication on the topic of ‘solutions to scale nature finance’ set to be published in June 2025.
Theme: Financing mechanisms
Every Job is a Nature Job
UNEP-WCMC and WBCSDTo effectively address nature loss, action needs to be embedded across the whole business. Under the Every Job is a Nature Job framing, attendees will come together to discuss scaling nature considerations across different business functions.
Theme: Shifting systems and sectors
The Nature-Health Nexus: The case for business leadershipGlobal Balance
Nature and health are deeply interconnected. Biodiversity loss is driving degradation of ecosystem services that are critical to human health. This session will explore why investors, companies, policymakers, and NGOs should align efforts to address the critical issues of health and biodiversity loss and will explore action already underway in the private sector.
Theme: Nexus approaches
State of Nature: Exploring business needs for measuring and accounting for their impacts on ecosystem condition
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Theme: Enhanced accountability
This ‘State of Nature’ session will focus on ecosystem conditions, and deep-dive into the real-world challenges faced by businesses in assessing impacts and dependencies at this ecosystem level. It will first outline how ecosystem condition is represented in key assessment and reporting standards, before collectively exploring pragmatic solutions for measuring, monitoring and reporting.
The nature tech Blueprint for achieving the nature positive transition
Nature Tech Collective
Theme: Data, technology and tools
Leveraging the Nature Tech Taxonomy and 2024 Nature Tech Report, this session will outline the atlas of viable solutions for accelerating the transition towards a nature positive economy.
Finance & business dialogues – sectoral pathways and enabling policy landscape
UNEP-FI and UNEP-WCMC
Theme: Collective action
Interactive dialogues workshops will bring together business and finance leaders to consider sectoral pathways and an enabling policy landscape, focussing on forward-looking solutions and opportunities.
Investment and action in landscapes
UNEP-WCMC
Theme: Collective action
Scaling action and investment into landscapes and seascapes can help organisations address their risks and opportunities while addressing nature loss. This session will work with attendees to explore how the private sector can better engage at the landscape level.
Nature-positive value chains – actions, metrics and target-setting
WBCSD and WEF
Theme: Enhanced accountability
This session examines actions, metrics and target-setting for businesses on nature across value chains. Participants will explore commonalities and differentiation across value chains, such as for agriculture, forestry, and mining inputs; discuss ways to establish accountability frameworks and mechanisms across value chains; and identify practical opportunities for collaborative action – to transform value chains into nature-positive systems.
Directors duties and bringing nature to the boardroom
Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative
Theme: Enhanced accountability
This session will guide attendees through the core legal duties of corporate directors regarding nature-related risks. It will introduce a behavioral science tool specifically designed to assist sustainability teams and board members in understanding their influence within the boardroom.