Corporate Investments into Forestry & Biodiversity

• Carbon returns over the long-term
• Increasing asset values as the segment expands
• Risks of emerging markets offset by higher returns
• Stability of US & Oceania

• What is high quality? Going beyond the must-have attributes
• High quality NBS projects come at a cost – barriers and opportunities for their finance and development
• Are buyers ready to pay for the premium? Pathways to a higher-quality voluntary carbon market

• Strategies to scale: new methodological approaches and technologies
• Funding mechanisms to move more projects faster
• Ensuring integrity in ARR carbon projects

• Global and US trends in climate events
• Climate-related loss profile in forestry
• Modelling financial impacts for disclosure
• Risk transfer options

• Incentives for businesses to be more active in the voluntary carbon market
• Voluntary credits contribute to closing the finance gap for nature
• The use of voluntary carbon credits and their role in “reduce, restore & remove”

• Carbon credit development background and where the market currently sits
• The business case for carbon credits & policy to support the market
• Decarbonisation tools and perspectives on mitigation hierarchies
• The challenges of meeting SBTI frameworks and how credits are vital

Hosted By BP, Pollination, & Everland

• Establishing metrics to identify carbon and productive returns is a must
• Methodologies for metrics are constantly updating
• The challenges of nature net gains and the future

• The application of technology to ensure integrity
• New technologies revolutionising the sector
• How new methodologies are underpinned by advances in tech

• Nature should be part of a business tool-box
• Nature based solutions contribute to the management of business risks
• Risks include extreme weather, water availability, soil health, and pollination
• Nature can help solve in-value chain challenges and go beyond value chain efforts

• The agriculture carbon reduction and removal opportunity

• Issues with due diligence and monitoring at scale

• Breakthroughs allowing new solutions

• Agroforestry, Row Crops and Rice case studies

• VCM or S3S?

• A new credit class is not there to replace carbon
• The use case of biodiversity credits - destruction offsets is not the plan
• Guaranteeing the integrity of credits, the challenges and methodologies