Corporate Investments into Forestry & Biodiversity – September 2022

• Setting out the schedule for the two days
• Identifying key objectives across the schedule
• Developing partnerships

• Moving towards biodiversity credits
• Establishing value in biodiversity projects over the long term
• What value does biodiversity, over carbon, provide a corporate

• How can we release more finance?
• Innovative finance and incorporating other elements to create a more positive impact
• Creating coalitions to enable a more worthwhile return

How cutting-edge technologies in eDNA and Earth observation are being used to provide consistent, robust and scalable insight to underpin confidence in emerging carbon and biodiversity markets

• Presentation Space Intelligence: State of the art for forest carbon assessments
• Presentation Naturemetrics: the nature data revolution – novel technology provides direct biodiversity data for reporting and NBS markets

Panel discussion:

• The importance of robust data from project developer and investors perspective
• Data for emerging market mechanisms – finding the right metrics
• Opportunities and challenges – project developer’s perspective
• How earth observation and eDNA can complement each other
• Future R&D

Questions from audience

• Project area optimization
• Design and origination
• High risk pre project funding
• Feasibility solutions to simplify the investment assessment
• Social considerations and integration
• Buffer zone developments, plantation elements and agroforestry
• Establishing economic development plans in buffer zones and beyond
• Landscape scale considerations

• Accepting Bronze as a starting point whilst aiming for Gold through effective transition to best practice
• How to mitigate the reputational risk at the supplier level
• Remediation – how can corporate intervention ameliorate bad practice?

• Integrating technology in projects to increase the value of those projects
• Monitoring and modelling systems
• What technology will be available in the future to make measuring more accurate, easier, and less costly

• What level of reporting is required?
• How can we start creating harmony between reporting standards?
• The value of simplified metrics in accurate reporting

• Increasing the value from millions to billions
• Applying the landscape approach
• Scope 3 and landscape supply sheds
• Monitoring at landscape scale