Corporate Investments into Forestry & Biodiversity

• How to engage nature as a business
• The risks of investing against the risks of not investing
• Taking leadership in NCS

• Financing projects from pilot to scale – what models exist
• Project planning and implementation
• Examples of projects and how inherent earning logic makes sense

• Integrity challenges around carbon credits
• Selecting the right credits for your business
• Technology underpinning additionality claims

• If you can’t measure nature you can’t manage it
• Selecting appropriate KPI’s
• What metrics determine a good investment

Round Table A: Carbon Markets: Operation, Functions, and Opportunities

Round Table B: How Can Corporates Access Nature for Net Zero

Round Table C: Managing Risks in Nature and Forest Investments

Round Table D: Early Stage Project Funding

• Biodiversity credits are starting to be traded
• Unlocking the value of this nascent class of product
• How does a buyer use these against their nature strategy?

• How companies and developers can apply technology
• Technology underpinning investment decisions
• MRV and related solutions help companies navigate a complex space

• Well managed forests have fibre and carbon additionalities
• The benefits of stable, long term assets
• Challenges of regional differences
• Incorporating biodiversity into forest operations to enhance value

• The reputational risk of doing nothing
• Risk of loss and means of overcoming losses
• Defining unknown risks, geographical, social, political

• Biodiversity is local, carbon is global
• Methodologies for incorporating both into single investments
• Additionality of biodiversity net gain in a carbon asset

Round Table A: Carbon Markets: Operation, Functions, and Opportunities

Round Table B: How Can Corporates Access Nature for Net Zero

Round Table C: Managing Risks in Nature and Forest Investments

Round Table D: Early Stage Project Funding