Investments into Forestry & Biodiversity

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

• Understanding the interplay of the two classes and monetisation of biodiversity
• Auditable carbon and biodiversity reporting for high-quality, high-integrity projects
• The long term trends of two emerging markets

• Transitional forestry for permanence on indigenous community lands
• High quality carbon credits with 1st world market risk
• Combining financial return with credit delivery

• Loss trends
• Measurement tools
• Mitigation actions & management
• Risk transfer for extreme events

• Institutional investors are looking to corporates as long term partners
• New product lines being created to satisfy this trend
• What do corporates look for when choosing investment grade solutions?

• NbS as an Infrastructure Asset Class

• Positioning of Institutional Investors Along the NbS Risk-Return Curve

• Commercial vs Conservation-Focused Strategies for NbS Investments

• New project pipelines are underfunded, unlocking capital to fix this
• What to look for in early stage projects
• Funding mechanisms to reduce risk and get projects moving
• Enabling financing of high-integrity nature-based solutions projects at landscape level

A discussion around this emerging asset class to deliver climate, biodiversity and social outcomes

• If values are to rise, the quality must be absolute
• The nature of high quality carbon credits
• Technology that underpins Carbon Credits
• Benefit sharing

• Biodiversity & species loss is an emergency
• Are biodiversity credits the answer to arresting species loss
• Defining Biodiversity

• Aligning land-use projects to corporate climate targets
• Value chain optimization and supply linkages for economic incentives
• Financing the land-use transition

• Establishing KPI’s for net gains
• Making clear concise metrics that investors and corporates can understand
• Picking a few metrics is better than picking many

• Focus on the Voluntary Carbon Market and specifically Article 6.2/6.4 and emerging regional markets
• Discussion on progress in the region generally
• Opportunities in the forestry sector in Asia

• Defining Blue Carbon, why its good for corporates and investors
• Carbon returns, biodiversity gains, production gains make for investor paradise
• Examples of successful projects and challenges