Corporate Investments into Forestry & Biodiversity

• What makes a project viable?
• At what point can a corporate step in?
• Examples of community engagement

• Why Paraguay? Untapped land, optimal climate, and scalable carbon potential
• Turning degraded land into high-yield carbon assets
• Pump-priming regenerative agriculture and sustainable forestry through carbon finance

• What integrity means
• Measuring the reality of outcomes
• Effective communication of community benefits.
• Why does a carbon credit need to have a higher price?

• How to identify early-stage operational and environmental red flags
• Practical strategies for mitigating impact
• Examples from the field

• Making due diligence work for nature projects
• Understanding what matters for project quality
• What are effective KPIs and how to measure them?
• The positive outcomes of understanding what you’re measuring

• Nature positive is business positive
• How corporates can engage nature
• Communication of outcomes
• Positive supply chain engagement make business sense

A- The Role of Large-Scale Forestry - Bob Izlar - UGA

B- Ensuring Permanence Through Community Engagement - Sil Lanckriet- Climate Lab

C- Engaging Carbon Credits to Achieve Net Zero

D-Due Diligence and Managing Risk in Nature Investment - Jamie Lawrence - Xilva

• Forest managers understand nature and know how to execute.
• Fibre returns and carbon outcomes
• Incorporating biodiversity

• Shark-Tank/Dragon's style pitches from investment-ready ventures
• Live feedback and questions from a panel of NBS investors
• A front-row seat to see how decisions take shape
• Companies pitching to be revealed

• Examples of positive landscape based projects
• How to use landscapes to benefit business
• EUDR and how a landscape approach can aid compliance

• Defining good projects, what are the fundamentals
• Structures to derisk investments
• Mitigating financial, political, regulatory and social risk
• Methodologies for managing risks

• Introduction of Tamata Hauha and the ETS
• What makes NZ unique in its value proposition as a country struggling to meet NDC?
• Examples of Tamata’s afforestation investments on indigenous lands
• Can VCM projects be offered and how

• Shift from consultation to co-creation
• Partnerships beyond pipelines
• Community voices in governance, benefit-sharing, and decision-making

A- The Role of Large-Scale Forestry - Bob Izlar - UGA

B- Ensuring Permanence Through Community Engagement - Sil Lanckriet- Climate Lab

C- Engaging Carbon Credits to Achieve Net Zero

D-Due Diligence and Managing Risk in Nature Investment - Jamie Lawrence - Xilva