Forestry & Agriculture Investment Summit

• Laying out the key topics
• The role that corporates have to play in a climate friendly future
• What does the future hold

• The changing landscape and long term trends
• One size does not fit all – how investors challenge the existing wisdom
• Considerations of risks and expected returns over the long term

• Shifting investment strategies in forestry and land investments
• Carbon pricing effects on land use investments
• Re-imagining forestry and agriculture as a natural capital asset class, with investment case studies

• Making sense of the recent turmoil – what are the long term trends
• REDD + and ARR price differentials – the future of REDD+
• Biodiversity business models
• How can investors harness these trends?

• Structure of International insurance market
• Characteristics of climate-related losses in forestry: Fire; Wind; & portfolio results
• Insurance products & is self-insurance a strategy?
• Reducing insurance costs

• Where are those long-term returns coming from?
• Changes in forest management methodologies to focus on carbon and biodiversity improvements
• Enhancing carbon and biodiversity and the long term returns

• Nature-based solutions as part of a corporate’s journey to net zero
• Corporate alliances to restore nature
• What corporates need from the financial community

• Defining and reporting positive climate returns
• Identifying projects that make financial sense
• Tools needed to assist the manager on the ground
• Offsetting and insetting and the role of Agroforestry in both

• Successful projects need a landscape approach
• Encouraging multiple player investments needs a well designed project
• Dividing the returns among investors and benefit sharing
• The importance of government support

• Key metrics & KPI’s to look for as an investor
• Biodiversity measurement methodologies
• Accuracy of reporting successful projects

Click here for the new Biodiversity Impact Credit methodology launched in this session!

• How to select high quality projects
• What carbon buyers are looking for
• The latest in digital monitoring and evaluation
• Risks, and the future

• Finding workable solutions that make financial and operational sense
• Proven methodologies like continuous cover forestry
• Techniques and technologies that enable this change
• Long term returns – carbon payments to offset lower fibre revenues

• tools we have to bring integrity to the supply of nature-based credits
• what’s needed to de-risk projects for investors to enable early stage investments
• how do we innovate and scale through new market mechanisms and investments in jurisdictional programs

• Genesis and evolution of Rabo Carbon Bank
• Rabobank's Soil Carbon Journey: Learnings and Next Steps
• Thoughts on Forestry and models for working with Landowners/Farmers on this globally
• Agriculture value chain decarbonisation

• From back garden to front & centre - What defines ‘regenerative’
• Regenerative techniques are going mainstream
• Scaling projects to make them viable economically as well as environmentally
• Long term support models that enable transition – overcoming the valley of death

• The emergence of biodiversity business models
• Blended finance models that de-risk projects and encourage institutional inflows of capital
• The role that insurance can play in catalysing institutional capital
• The effectiveness of these models in unlocking NBS projects