27 January | 14:00 CET
For the fifth year, the New Green Shoots webinar will explore the latest cutting-edge innovations in finance for nature-positive outcomes. This year’s session focuses the largest living organism on Earth – fungus.
The fungal kingdom playing a vital role in many aspects of life as we know it. Join us for an in-depth session, in collaboration with The Future is Fungi Award, on why fungal ecosystems are an important yet overlooked factor in sustainable finance.
We’ll explore how fungi underpin key financed sectors like agriculture, real estate, and infrastructure, and the emerging investment opportunities across the fungal bioeconomy, from venture capital to green bonds. We’ll also touch on where fungal health appears in frameworks such as the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.
The webinar will also outline the policy gaps shaping both risks and first-mover advantages for financial institutions and provide practical guidance for integrating fungal ecosystem indicators into credit risk analysis, underwriting, and portfolio management.
Download the Annex to the New Green Shoots Webinar. This document serves as a third inventory to inform the webinar. It builds on the inventories and webinars from previous years and offers an informal overview of nature finance innovations.
Our New Green Shoots webinar series looks at the latest trends in nature finance and is delivered in partnership with the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation, European Business and Biodiversity Platform, and the Principles for Responsible Investment. Watch recordings from previous years here: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.