Investing at scale: aligning value chains locally with LENs | Finance for Nature | Path to COP26
Investing at scale: aligning value chains locally with LENs | Finance for Nature | Path to COP26 Landscape Enterprising Networks (LENs) provide a compelling business case for investing in the landscape and a platform to aggregate payments for ecosystem services. This session looks at problem solving key policy, delivery and science issues associated with financing LENs initiatives.
This…
Kate Forbes | Finance for Nature | Path to COP26
Kate Forbes | Finance for Nature | Path to COP26 Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy, Kate Forbes MSP, delivers a keynote highlighting the importance of public-private sector collaboration in delivering finance for nature, the need to be inclusive of rural communities and the huge potential for nature-based investment in Scotland.
This event took place during COP26, as…
Peatland Code and Private Finance Seminar | Finance for Nature | Path to COP26
Peatland Code and Private Finance Seminar | Finance for Nature | Path to COP26 How do we build on Scotland’s potential for financing peatland restoration and take it to the next level?
This event took place during COP26, as part of our pathtocop26.com campaign.
Speakers include:
Renée Kerkvliet-Hermans - Peatland Code Co-ordinator, IUCN UK Peatland Programme George Hepburne Scott -…
Aligned Accountability – A Common Database on Deforestation | Finance for Nature | Path to COP26
Aligned Accountability - A Common Database on Deforestation | Finance for Nature | Path to COP26 How to identify if a company or client is deforestation-free or working towards this goal?
This session asks how we fill the deforestation data gap, drawing on the work of a new partnership initiative to provide Aligned Accountability.
This event took place during COP26, as part of our…
High-level Panel – TNFD: What is it and why does it matter? | Finance for Nature | Path to COP26
High-level Panel - TNFD: What is it and why does it matter? | Finance for Nature | Path to COP26 The Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures and deforestation metrics (TNFD), launched in June 2021 to provide a risk management and disclosure framework to organisations to assess, report and act on nature-related risks. This panel explores why this is so important for the finance…
Finance for Nature in Nature | COP26 Highlights
Finance for Nature in Nature | COP26 Highlights On the 4th and 5th of November, the Global Ethical Finance Initiative (GEFI), in partnership with Scottish Government, Scottish Forum on Natural Capital, Global Canopy, Nature for Climate and UNDP delivered a hybrid ‘Finance for Nature’ programme during COP26.
The programme brought together leading global experts working to enable…
Finance for Nature
Nature and Biodiversity While climate change steals the headlines, biodiversity loss has the potential to be every bit as catastrophic. How can finance address this, what measures are already being taken and what risks are there to the financial system?
Finance for Nature | Jamison Ervin
Jamison Ervin | Finance for Nature | Ethical Finance 2020
Jamison Ervin, Manager of the Finance for Nature programme at UNDP, delivers a stark warning about the devastating impacts humanity is having on nature and biodiversity, and highlights some of the practical steps the finance industry can take to ensure they are investing in a future for all life on earth.…
Why is it so important to finance nature? | Achim Steiner (UNDP) | Finance for Nature Global Series
Why is it so important to finance nature? - Achim Steiner (UNDP) | Finance for Nature Global Series
Achim Steiner, Head of UNDP, explains the need to align financial flows with nature, to protect biodiversity and achieve the SDGs. Nature provides huge value to the economy, and climate but without supporting it, we cannot expect it to continue to do so! Ethical Finance 2020 will take…
Finance for Nature
The Finance for Nature Virtual Global Series, delivered by UNDP, UNEP, the Scottish Government-backed Global Ethical Finance Initiative, the New York Declaration on Forests Global Platform and Climate Advisers will accelerate momentum on nature-based finance in advance of the UN Climate and Biodiversity COPs in 2021. Bringing together industry champions from finance, insurance,…
Achim Steiner: Why is it so important to finance nature?
Achim Steiner, Head of UNDP, explains the need to align financial flows with nature, to protect biodiversity and achieve the SDGs. Nature provides huge value to the economy, and climate but without supporting it, we cannot expect it to continue to do so! Speakers Achim Steiner, Head of UNDP
Panel: Is nature finance feasible?
Financing the protection and restoration of nature has been a consistent theme for us at GEFI, and Ethical Finance Global 2022 was no different.
Our panel on nature saw Sarah Breeden of the Bank of England join, after her speech setting out the Bank's initial response to nature as a financial risk, alongside Kathy Benini of S&P Global, Alessandra Mongiardino, Ph.D. of NatWest Group and…