Forests Finance: a key solution against climate change, biodiversity loss, and inequality
Forests Finance: a key solution against climate change, biodiversity loss, and inequality
Hosted by the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation
Date and time – Thursday 31st October, 12:00 – 13:00
Venue – Finance and Biodiversity Pavilion, Blue Zone – Cali, Colombia
Topics – Leadership & Good Practices
Format of event – Panel
GBF targets – Goal D, Target 14, Target 15, Target 18, Target 19
Summary
This event will focus on finance for forests, both to fight deforestation and to protect the integrity of their vital ecosystems. It will showcase the activities of leading organisations that demonstrate how finance plays a critical role in ensuring better practices. It will also promote concrete projects and mechanisms that can help to mobilise and scale finance for the conservation and restoration of forests.
Description
This event will focus on finance for forests, both to fight deforestation and to protect the integrity of their vital ecosystems. Forests are home to 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity and provide the life support systems for hundreds of millions of Indigenous Peoples. Healthy and resilient forests are key in the fight against climate change and can ensure social equality. But they are being lost at an alarming rate.
This event will explore the available levers for actions for financial institutions and corporates. It will present opportunities for funding in circular, tree-free solutions, while also eliminating climate-critical forests from global supply chains. It will present how current methodologies can guide future production and land-use patterns for a sustainable use of biodiversity. It will showcase the activities of leading organisations that demonstrate how finance plays a critical role in ensuring better practices.
Furthermore, the event will also promote concrete projects and mechanisms that can help to mobilise and scale finance for the conservation and restoration of forests, such as biodiversity credits and certifications.
Programme & Speakers
Moderator
Natacha Boric, Finance for Biodiversity Foundation
Panel
Diana Baron, Banco de Bogota
Anand Punja, Forest Stewardship Council International
Dan Zarin, World Conservation Society
OBJECTIVES
- Explore the available levers for actions for financial institutions and corporates.
- Present opportunities for funding in circular, tree-free solutions, while also eliminating climate-critical forests from global supply chains.
- Promote concrete projects and mechanisms that can help to mobilise and scale finance for the conservation and restoration of forests.
AUDIENCE
Financial regulators and policymakers, financial institutions, and civil society, interested in forests finance as a key solution against climate change, biodiversity loss, and inequality.