The Nature Positive Pavilion at COP17

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• From Global Commitments to Subnational Action: Advancing the Implementation of the GBF through Multiple Pathways

  Organizers: Associação Brasileira de Entidades Estaduais de Meio Ambiente (ABEMA)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Tuesday 20 Oct 2026, 10:30 am - 11:30 am

  From Global Commitments to Subnational Action: Multiple Pathways for GBF Implementation

• Territories Under Pressure: What Sustains Sociobiodiversity? Indigenous and Quilombola Strategies across Brazil’s Cerrado, Caatinga and Pantanal

  Organizers: International Institute of Education of Brazil (IEB)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Tuesday 20 Oct 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  How Indigenous and Quilombola strategies, rooted in their ways of life, sustain territories under pressure across Brazil’s Cerrado, Caatinga and Pantanal and contribute to implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework.

• Building the New Architecture for Indigenous-Led Nature Finance

  Organizers: Conservation International (CI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Tuesday 20 Oct 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

  Building the New Architecture for Indigenous-Led Nature Finance: Advancing Coordination Across Financing Mechanisms, Strengthening Indigenous Leadership, and Mobilizing Investment for Biodiversity Conservation and Nature Positive Implementation

• From Measurement to Action: Exploring this Challenge with NATURE Impacts

  Organizers: University Of Oxford, WWF-UK, WWF-Colombia
  Location: Small Room
  When: Tuesday 20 Oct 2026, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

  From monitoring progress to prioritising action: using data, modelling and country-led expertise to support implementation of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

• Finance in a Year of Taking Action for Nature – how biodiversity data can support business decision-making and investment aligned with global standards and commitments

  Organizers: IBAT
  Location: Main Room
  When: Tuesday 20 Oct 2026, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

  This session will explore the relationship between biodiversity loss and risk and uncover ways that financial institutions and businesses can develop effective biodiversity risk management strategies and build resilience

• Growing Biodiversity Values: Global Leadership in the Arts, Health, Education and Governance

  Organizers: Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring, International Nature Prescribing Alliance (INPA), Centre for Global Education (CGE), Environment and Climate Change Canada, Senate Canada
  Location: Main Room
  When: Tuesday 20 Oct 2026, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

  Join world-renowned Armenian-Canadian children’s troubadour Raffi, a physician nature prescribing leader, parliamentarian, youth advocate and COP negotiator for an essential conversation about building support for nature conservation across diverse ecosystems.

• Three Tropical Forests, One Global Agenda: Science for Biodiversity and Sustainable Development

  Organizers: Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Tuesday 20 Oct 2026, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

  Connecting science, Indigenous knowledge and policy across the Amazon, Congo Basin and Borneo to advance biodiversity conservation and implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

• Delivering Nature Positive Climate Outcomes Through Wildlife Conservation and Restoration

  Organizers: International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), World Federation for Animals, Global Rewilding Alliance, AWE for Nature Foundation
  Location: Main Room
  When: Tuesday 20 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

  Explore how wildlife conservation and restoration can deliver nature positive climate outcomes by enhancing carbon storage, ecosystem resilience, and biodiversity, while strengthening implementation of global climate and nature commitments.

• Opening Reception

  Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Tuesday 20 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

  The opening reception for the Nature Positive Pavilion at Un CBD COP 17. The pavilion will be open for the duration of the COP, with dozens of events from 25 partners being held.

• Partners for Life: Trust, Consent and Community for a Nature Positive World

  Organizers: International Environmental Guardianship (IEG), UN Development Programme (UNDP), Biodiversity Credit Alliance (BCA)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Wednesday 21 Oct 2026, 9:00 am - 10:00 am

  Nature Positive depends on partnership. The International Environmental Guardianship (IEG) convenes a dialogue on how community consent and co-ownership creates the trust to bring this global goal to life.

• The World Future Policy Award 2025 on Biodiversity practices

  Organizers: World Future Council, Tropical Forest Foundation (OroVerde)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Wednesday 21 Oct 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Presentation of the 2025 World Future Policy Award "Living in Harmony with Nature and Future Generations", celebrating laws that strengthen ecosystems and the Rights of Nature.

• The right places and the right time: mapping urgency and threat to guide GBF targets

  Organizers: The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Wednesday 21 Oct 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

  The right places and the right time: mapping urgency and threat to guide GBF targets

• 30×30 at the Landscape Level: Pursuing OECMs Through Local Governance, National Standards and Stewardship

  Organizers: Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern
  Location: Main Room
  When: Wednesday 21 Oct 2026, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

  Making OECMs Deliver: Local Stewardship, National Standards, Nature Positive Outcomes

• Indigenous and Local Knowledge for Amazon Biodiversity: Science, Territory, and Policy

  Organizers: Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA), Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Wednesday 21 Oct 2026, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

  Interweaving Indigenous, local and scientific knowledge to strengthen Amazon biodiversity conservation, territorial governance and implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF).

• Celebrating International Snow Leopard Day: Mobilizing Global Action Through Sports, Culture, and Political Leadership

  Organizers: Ministry of Natural Resources, Ecology and Technical Supervision of the Kyrgyz Republic, Snow Leopard Trust (SLT), Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program
  Location: Main Room
  When: Wednesday 21 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

  Celebrating International Snow Leopard Day: Mobilizing Global Action Through Sports, Culture and Presidential Leadership — Join Kyrgyzstan's #23for23 Movement for Mountain Biodiversity

• From Fragmentation to Alignment: Advancing Rio Conventions Synergies to Deliver the Global Biodiversity Framework

  Organizers: The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Wednesday 21 Oct 2026, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

  From Fragmentation to Alignment: Advancing Rio Conventions Synergies to Deliver the Global Biodiversity Framework

• The Recovery Gap: Are we creating the conditions for nature to recover?

  Organizers: Wild Legacy CIC, Gallifrey Foundation
  Location: Main Room
  When: Wednesday 21 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

  How can considerable conservation, restoration, policy and investment coexist with continuing ecological decline?

• Nature Data as Infrastructure for Business Action

  Organizers: IBAT
  Location: Main Room
  When: Thursday 22 Oct 2026, 9:00 am - 10:00 am

  Nature data is part of the implementation infrastructure businesses need to turn commitments into credible decisions. State of Nature metrics can help organisations decide what to track; ecosystem and species evidence can help identify where attention is needed; and company processes determine how information informs decisions and action. This session will explore how these elements work together through perspectives from the Nature Positive Initiative, the Global Ecosystems Atlas, IUCN and Vale.

• Eight Global Targets, one Bioeconomy Plan: Transforming Biodiversity into Sustainable Development in The Amazon

  Organizers: State Secretariat for Environment, Climate and Sustainability of Pará (SEMAS), Amazon, Brazil
  Location: Small Room
  When: Thursday 22 Oct 2026, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

  Eight Global Targets. One Bioeconomy Plan: Transforming Biodiversity into Sustainable Development in The Amazon

• Beyond the Biodiversity Finance Gap: Embedding Nature in Economic and Financial Decision-Making

  Organizers: The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Thursday 22 Oct 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Nature as Economic Infrastructure: Rethinking Finance, Risk and Resilience

• The Bioeconomy Trade-Off: Meeting Energy Needs Without Increasing Pressure on Forests

  Organizers: Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Chatham House
  Location: Main Room
  When: Thursday 22 Oct 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

  As demand for biofuels and bio-based materials grows, how can governments meet energy and economic goals without increasing pressure on forests, food production and biodiversity?

• Policies for a Sustainable Bioeconomy in the Pan-Amazon: Launch of the Bioeconomy Radar and Pathways for Action

  Organizers: The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Thursday 22 Oct 2026, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

  Policies for a Sustainable Bioeconomy in the Pan-Amazon: Launch of the Bioeconomy Radar and Pathways for Action

• Code Red for the Tapanuli Orangutan: A species on the brink of extinction without a recovery plan.

  Organizers: Mighty Earth
  Location: Small Room
  When: Thursday 22 Oct 2026, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

  Mighty Earth and partners are launching a new report outlining the steps that need to be taken to save the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest, great ape from extinction.

• Final Consensus State of Nature Indicators & Metrics ready for use

  Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Thursday 22 Oct 2026, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

  This session will present the newly launched consensus State of Nature Indicators and Metrics Framework. There will be a discussion of the final Framework with insights from organisations already embedding the metrics. The session will close with clear calls to action from the wider nature community and an audience Q&A with the panel.

• From Global Expectations to Forest-Level Action: Making Nature Frameworks Work in Practice

  Organizers: Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), International Sustainable Forestry Coalition (ISFC)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Thursday 22 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

  Join all the major sustainable forest certification programs in a collaborative conversation about connecting nature-related reporting requirements to credible forest health outcomes.

• Scaling Nature-Positive action: Connecting corporate commitments, national targets, and spatial planning science

  Organizers: Conservation International (CI)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Thursday 22 Oct 2026, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

  Turning global environmental commitments into coordinated, place-based action requires stronger connections between national priorities, corporate targets, and spatial planning. This session will explore how shared science, spatial data, and planning frameworks can help governments and companies align action and investment to accelerate implementation of the Rio Conventions.

• (Screening) Becoming Nature Positive

  Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Thursday 22 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

  Film Screening + Reception: Screening of the short film, ‘Becoming Nature Positive’, followed by audience interaction and discussion, followed by a drinks reception.

• Insurance Taking Action for Nature: Advancing Risk Evidence, Finance and Mainstreaming for Nature

  Organizers: UN Environment Programme - Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Friday 23 Oct 2026, 9:00 am - 10:00 am

  Insurance Taking Action for Nature: This high-level, multi-stakeholder dialogue will explore how the insurance sector can make the financial, economic and fiscal risks associated with nature loss more visible; enable finance and financial protection for nature; and mainstream nature and enable wider economic transition. The session will examine how insurance data and risk modelling can provide evidence of the consequences of nature loss and the risk-reduction value of healthy ecosystems, and how underwriting, investment, risk advisory and risk-financing products can protect ecosystems, nature-dependent communities and nature-based investments, while identifying the policy, regulatory, data, modelling, financing and institutional conditions needed to scale insurance action for nature.

• Halting and Reversing Deforestation by 2030: Implementing the COP30 Presidency Roadmap

  Organizers: Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Friday 23 Oct 2026, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

  This session will explore how the COP30 Presidency Roadmap to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030 can be translated into real-world action and what it will take to deliver on this commitment.

• The role of data and technology in facilitating state of nature metrics

  Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Friday 23 Oct 2026, 10:30 am - 11:30 am

  This panel brings together leading biodiversity data and infrastructure organizations to explore how we can consistently measure the State of Nature (SoN) across key descriptors, where current data and measurement gaps remain, and how existing tools and datasets can better align. The discussion will examine opportunities to connect metrics across scales, improve interoperability, and leverage emerging technologies to build a more reliable, accessible, and decision-useful picture of nature.

• From Raw to Regenerative: Financing Africa’s Blue Bioeconomy

  Organizers: FSD Africa
  Location: Small Room
  When: Friday 23 Oct 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  The African Bioeconomy Finance Hub will share actionable pathways to strengthen local value chains, unlock investment in the blue bioeconomy and build sustainable industries that generate jobs, resilience and biodiversity outcomes.

• Reaching Target 18: Lessons Learned from Implementation Efforts

  Organizers: Conservation International (CI), UNDP Biodiversity Finance Initiative (Biofin)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Friday 23 Oct 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

  Target 18: Making Reform Work

• How can tools and service providers embed State of Nature metrics

  Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Friday 23 Oct 2026, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

  This will be an invite-only clinic for nature framework and standard owners, data and tools developers and consultancies to dive deeper into the technical detail of the State of Nature Indicators and Metrics Framework and Initial Measurement Guidance. A presentation will cover an overview of the guidance and highlight key calls to action for organisations in the audience to support the uptake of metrics. The majority of the session will be dedicated to audience discussion and provide an opportunity to ask questions directly to the Nature Positive Initiative team and partners.

• The Nature Finance Tipping Point: What Will It Take to Move Capital at Scale in Africa?

  Organizers: FSD Africa
  Location: Main Room
  When: Friday 23 Oct 2026, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

  Exploring how investors, financial institutions, regulators, philanthropy and market builders can turn Africa’s natural capital, emerging nature markets and innovative finance models into scaled investment opportunities.

• From Commitment to Inclusive Action: How conservation NGOs are changing to support and empower indigenous and community-led conservation, and the whole-of-society implementation of the KM-GBF

  Organizers: WWF International
  Location: Small Room
  When: Friday 23 Oct 2026, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

  From Commitment to Inclusive Action: How conservation NGOs are changing to support and empower indigenous and community-led conservation, and the whole-of-society implementation of the KM-GBF

• Scaling action for nature: using circular economy to accelerate the delivery of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)

  Organizers: Ellen Macarthur Foundation, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Friday 23 Oct 2026, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

  Scaling action for nature: using circular economy to accelerate the delivery of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)

• BirdLife workshop (invite only)

  Organizers: BirdLife International
  Location: Small Room
  When: Friday 23 Oct 2026, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

  This event will be an invitation-only workshop. Further details will be shared together with the invitation.

• Building the Global Baseline: Implementing Target 15 of the GBF and the Future of Nature-related Disclosure

  Organizers: CDP
  Location: Main Room
  When: Friday 23 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

  Exploring the future of nature-related disclosure and reporting, including TNFD progress, the ISSB Nature Practice Statement and implications for GBF Target 15 implementation.

• Nature-positive from the ground up: the ECX platform for community-led action

  Organizers: East Coast Exchange (ECX), Te Kautuku Ahu Whenua Trust
  Location: Small Room
  When: Friday 23 Oct 2026, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

  The East Coast Exchange (ECX) uses digital public infrastructure to mobilise investment into nature-based solutions – led by communities for communities. Learn more from the team involved at this unique knowledge-sharing session.

• CDP Reception

  Organizers: CDP
  Location: Main Room
  When: Friday 23 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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• Standardising the measurement and accounting for ecosystem condition: progress to date and challenges ahead

  Organizers: The Biodiversity Footprint Intelligence Company (BioInt)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Saturday 24 Oct 2026, 9:00 am - 10:00 am

  Ecosystem condition has established itself as a key element of biodiversity to measure. The event will take stock of progress on convergence and explore remaining questions to be addressed by standardisation efforts.

• High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People: Matchmaking Hub

  Organizers: High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People, Nature X Pairs
  Location: Small Room
  When: Saturday 24 Oct 2026, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

  Matchmaking Hubs: Connecting HAC for N&P Developing Member Countries with Support and Collaboration: The Matchmaking Hubs will connect countries seeking assistance with organizations offering relevant support on Target 3, creating opportunities to explore and develop potential collaboration.

• Turn 30×30 into Lasting Conservation: partnerships and finance for effective, equitable and connected protected and conserved areas

  Organizers: Vale, Brazilian Private Reserves Network
  Location: Main Room
  When: Saturday 24 Oct 2026, 10:30 am - 11:30 am

  As the CBD Global Biodiversity Framework moves from commitments to implementation, the challenge is no longer simply to increase the number of hectares under effective conservation. The more difficult question is how to ensure that protected and conserved areas remain effectively managed, ecologically connected, socially legitimate and financially viable over time. This roundtable will bring together corporate conservation practitioners, members of the Brazilian Private Reserves Network, environmental authorities and NGOs to explore how corporate investment and partnerships can enable public policy, scientific standards and innovative finance that reinforce and scale conservation outcomes.

• Nature Positive in Practice: From Ambition to Concrete Action

  Organizers: ERM
  Location: Small Room
  When: Saturday 24 Oct 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Businesses and practitioners share actions already underway and map how practical delivery contributes to nature-positive goals across sectors, landscapes and value chains.

• The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: Reforming incentives for economic and supply chain resilience

  Organizers: Business for Nature, InTent
  Location: Main Room
  When: Saturday 24 Oct 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

  $2.6 trillion in public spending drives nature loss every year. Business and investor leaders are stepping up to work with governments on incentive reform, driving economic resilience and future-proofing supply chains. Find out how.

• The role of governments in Mobilizing Private Investment in Nature Protection and Restoration

  Organizers: World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Saturday 24 Oct 2026, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

  Building on the ongoing work around Nature-based Solutions, this discussion will focus on creating the enabling environment to finance the gap on nature while building business resilience.

• From Margins to Mainstream: Scaling Wetland Finance to Deliver the Global Biodiversity Framework

  Organizers: BirdLife International
  Location: Main Room
  When: Saturday 24 Oct 2026, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

  This event examines what it will take to move wetland protection and restoration finance from isolated pilots and grant-funded projects to investable, scalable financing models.

• Nature Positive Starts with Protecting the Last Homes of Threatened Species

  Organizers: RESOLVE, Quick Response Fund for Nature
  Location: Small Room
  When: Saturday 24 Oct 2026, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

  Protecting just 1.2% of Earth's land can prevent most species extinctions. Explore how rapid conservation action in Conservation Imperatives sites can help companies advance Nature Positive commitments

• Critical progress in achieving 30×30 at the country level: finance, partnership and political leadership

  Organizers: The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Saturday 24 Oct 2026, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

  Critical progress in achieving 30x30 at the country level: finance, partnership and political leadership

• How companies measure and report on nature

  Organizers: Forética
  Location: Small Room
  When: Saturday 24 Oct 2026, 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

  What companies are learning about measuring and reporting on nature

• Measuring What Matters: Driving Business Accountability for Nature and Leveling the Playing Field

  Organizers: World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Saturday 24 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

  This session unpacks insights, best practice examples, and tensions in measuring nature impact and progress and reflects on how a harmonized approach can level the playing field for business and finance.

• Strengthening human rights and safeguards for nature-based solutions

  Organizers: University of British Columbia (UBC)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Saturday 24 Oct 2026, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

  Strengthening human rights and safeguards for nature-based solutions

• (Networking Reception) Scaling Transformation in Business Practices

  Organizers: World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Business for Nature, UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), A-Track
  Location: Main Room
  When: Saturday 24 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

  This reception will celebrate our collective progress so far on scaling business action on nature, as well as highlight challenges and solutions to going beyond the early adopters to truly mainstream nature into business decision-making.

• Building Nature Value at Mine Sites and Across Landscapes: Case Studies in Action

  Organizers: RESOLVE, Regeneration Enterprises
  Location: Main Room
  When: Sunday 25 Oct 2026, 8:45 am - 9:50 am

  Mining companies, NGOs, and restoration partners share real-world examples of implementing Nature Positive commitments through biodiversity planning, landscape conservation, restoration, and innovative partnerships.

• From Assessment to Ambitious Action: Delivering Against the Nature-Positive Transition

  Organizers: CDP
  Location: Small Room
  When: Sunday 25 Oct 2026, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

  Hear from private sector and civil society leaders on the latest developments in nature target-setting, delivery and transition planning.

• ISSB Nature Practice Statement: Business and Finance Roundtable

  Organizers: EY, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Sunday 25 Oct 2026, 10:00 am - 10:55 am

  Business and finance leaders can hear directly from the ISSB about the proposed IFRS Practice Statement on nature-related disclosures, ask questions and provide feedback in this roundtable, facilitated by EY.

• Nature measurement speed dating: Company case studies

  Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Sunday 25 Oct 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

  This will be a high energy session introducing attendees to projects from around the world that have applied the State of Nature Indicators and Metrics. A series of quick fire case studies will be followed by an opportunity for the audience to ask questions directly to their peers on their measurement approaches and learnings from the process.

• Genetic Intelligence for Biodiversity: Building Better Metrics for Global Monitoring

  Organizers: Instituto Tecnologico Vale
  Location: Small Room
  When: Sunday 25 Oct 2026, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

  Achieving global biodiversity goals requires more than ambition. It requires credible, scalable and decision-useful evidence of how nature is changing. Genetic tools, including DNA-based monitoring and molecular biodiversity assessment, are expanding our ability to detect species, understand ecological change and generate robust data across terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments. This interactive fishbowl session will explore how genetic information can strengthen biodiversity metrics, complement conventional monitoring approaches and support progress towards global biodiversity targets.

• Beyond the Business as Usual: Landscape-Scale Change for a Nature Positive Future

  Organizers: Nature Positive Landscapes Initiative (NPLI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Sunday 25 Oct 2026, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

  Join the Nature Positive Landscapes Initiative to learn about program updates and science-based initiatives — then learn from mining sector leaders and international experts about driving nature positive outcomes worldwide.

• Scaling Corporate Action for Nature: From Ambition to Implementation

  Organizers: Accenture, UK Business & Biodiversity Forum (UKBBF), Natcap
  Location: Small Room
  When: Sunday 25 Oct 2026, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

  Use COP17 as a practical working session to help companies move from nature commitments, disclosures and pilots toward scalable action, clearer partnerships and decision-useful evidence aligned with the GBF

• The business case for nature resilience: From evidence to investment

  Organizers: ERM
  Location: Main Room
  When: Sunday 25 Oct 2026, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

  How nature-dependent industries can quantify resilience, build credible business cases and translate nature-related evidence into investment and capital-allocation decisions.

• Securing Forests: Critical Infrastructure for the Global Economy

  Organizers: World Economic Forum (WEF)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Sunday 25 Oct 2026, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

  Securing Forests: Critical Infrastructure for the Global Economy

• The Interoperability of Standards, Measurement and Guidance Frameworks for Nature Positive Outcomes

  Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Sunday 25 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

  This session will feature leading corporate reporting frameworks and standards sharing insights on how the State of Nature Indicators and Metrics are being embedded in their approaches, demonstrating the critical need for interoperability across the nature measurement space. It will provide a broad perspective of how the reporting landscape is shifting to fill the gap on state of nature in impact, dependency, risk and opportunity disclosures, as well as giving the latest updates from individual frameworks and standards on what this will look like in practice.

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  Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Sunday 25 Oct 2026, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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• What’s next for the Nature Positive agenda?

  Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Sunday 25 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

  This high-level event's objective is to hear from some of the leaders of organisations part of the Nature Positive galaxy about the most exciting and transformative upcoming initiatives that will shape the global nature-positive agenda in moving towards the crucial 2030 milestone. Among the speakers we will have IUCN, TNFD, ISO, Business for Nature and Conservation International, to name a few.

• Embedding Nature into Business and Value Chains

  Organizers: World Climate Foundation (WCF)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Monday 26 Oct 2026, 9:00 am - 10:00 am

  Turning biodiversity into a business priority: practical approaches to embedding nature across corporate strategy, operations and supply chains, strengthening resilience and driving measurable outcomes for nature and business.

• From Curitiba to Yerevan: Twenty years of the Island Biodiversity Programme of Work, and the conservation finance solutions that made island commitments last

  Organizers: The Pew Charitable Trusts, Global Island Partnership (GLISPA), Micronesia Conservation Trust (MCT), Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Monday 26 Oct 2026, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

  Twenty years after Parties agreed that island biodiversity needed adequate resources, what does the finance that actually worked look like — and how do we put more capital through it?

• Final Consensus State of Nature Indicators & Metrics ready for use

  Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Monday 26 Oct 2026, 10:30 am - 11:30 am

  This session will present the newly launched consensus State of Nature Indicators and Metrics Framework. There will be a discussion of the final Framework with insights from organisations already embedding the metrics. The session will close with clear calls to action from the wider nature community and an audience Q&A with the panel.

• From Consultation to Co-Creation: Recognising Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge and Customary Governance in Biodiversity and Carbon Standards

  Organizers: Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Engagement Forum, Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market
  Location: Small Room
  When: Monday 26 Oct 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  A dialogue bringing together standards bodies, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and practitioners to share experiences, challenges and emerging good practices for recognising Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge within market frameworks.

• A Global Forest-Sector Approach to Natural Capital

  Organizers: International Sustainable Forestry Coalition (ISFC)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Monday 26 Oct 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

  A pre-launch look at how the forest sector is aligning on natural capital markets — bringing together practitioners, standards-setters, and investors to accelerate credible, scalable climate and nature finance.

• State of Nature Metrics; Getting started on your nature-positive journey

  Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Monday 26 Oct 2026, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

  This will be a small-group session for nature practitioners looking to measure the State of Nature Indicators and Metrics. Participants will receive an introduction to the guidance and key practical learnings from the metric Piloting Programme, including advice on how to get started with measurement. There will be lots of time for Q&A with the Nature Positive Initiative team and expert partners. Please note that this session will require pre-registration. Registration: https://luma.com/dtudd5jt

• Towards a Nature Positive economy: the role of finance and insurance

  Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Monday 26 Oct 2026, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

  Operationalizing Targets 14 and 19 of the Global Biodiversity Framework requires moving from high-level commitments to concrete transitions. This session examines the business case for finance and insurance to adopt the nature-positive ambition and what changes are required to turn it into reality. The discussion will also explore integrating unified indicators into regulatory supervision, corporate insurance underwriting, and sovereign risk stress-testing in both developing and emerging economies.

• Raising our sights on Inland Waters to achieve 2050 Goals – Challenges, Early Successes and Clear Pathways

  Organizers: The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Monday 26 Oct 2026, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

  Raising our sights on Inland Waters to achieve 2050 Goals – Challenges, Early Successes and Clear Pathways

• From uncertainty to action: measuring nature for better decisions

  Organizers: Ramboll
  Location: Main Room
  When: Monday 26 Oct 2026, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

  From uncertainty to action: Choosing the right biodiversity metrics to measure nature, understand impacts, track progress, and build confidence in delivering nature positive outcomes

• From Commitment to Cash Flow: Delivering the Promise of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility

  Organizers: Conservation International (CI)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Monday 26 Oct 2026, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

  Charting the path toward a fully financed, credible and high-integrity TFFF that delivers lasting finance for tropical forests and the people who steward them.

• A Global Baseline for Better Decisions on Nature

  Organizers: World Economic Forum (WEF)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Monday 26 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

  A Global Baseline for Better Decisions on Nature

• Valuing Nature Consistently: A Global Standard for Forestry Natural Capital

  Organizers: International Sustainable Forestry Coalition (ISFC)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Monday 26 Oct 2026, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

  Can natural capital be valued consistently across 23 million hectares and 38 countries? Forestry leaders and standards-setters share what it takes to get there.

• Paying Twice: The Fiscal Case for Reforming Nature-Harming Subsidies

  Organizers: Conservation International (CI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Monday 26 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

  (Reception) Launch of CI's new report showing that subsidies that work against nature are both a fiscal and environmental risk and how redirecting a fraction could unlock the largest available source of biodiversity finance.

• From Hotspots to Action: Using Data to Deliver Nature-Positive Outcomes

  Organizers: ICMM
  Location: Main Room
  When: Tuesday 27 Oct 2026, 9:00 am - 10:00 am

  From hotspots to action: how emerging data, tools and risk frameworks can turn biodiversity insight into decisions that accelerate the Global Biodiversity Framework.

• Agroecology: The Key to Delivering Target 10

  Organizers: Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), CARITAS Bangladesh, BOKU University
  Location: Small Room
  When: Tuesday 27 Oct 2026, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

  In the context of the COP17 Global Review, this informal breakfast discussion will explore how agroecology can help deliver Target 10 while strengthening biodiversity, food security and resilience.

• Building Systemic Transformation Through Positive Tipping Points

  Organizers: WWF International
  Location: Main Room
  When: Tuesday 27 Oct 2026, 10:30 am - 11:30 am

  Building Systemic Transformation Through Positive Tipping Points

• Getting started with nature measurement: from pilot sites to practical action

  Organizers: Ramboll
  Location: Small Room
  When: Tuesday 27 Oct 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  (Invitation-only) Getting started with nature measurement: A practical workshop on pilot sites, biodiversity data, applying habitat metrics, and turning measurement into better decisions for nature

• Embedding nature into corporate action: New guidance published

  Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI), Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), Science Based Targets Network (SBTN)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Tuesday 27 Oct 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

  The TNFD, SBTN and Nature Positive Initiative will have released on 13 October synchronised updates to their guidance, helping organisations embed nature into their corporate nature-related assessment, reporting and target-setting activities.

• From Insetting to Collective Action: New Models for Integrated Landscape Financing

  Organizers: ETIFOR | Valuing Nature
  Location: Small Room
  When: Tuesday 27 Oct 2026, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

  From insetting to collective action: how Italian water basins are pioneering multi-stakeholder, blended finance models to move corporate nature action from the value chain to the landscape.

• From Commitment to Capital: Scaling Finance for durable Marine Protection

  Organizers: The Pew Charitable Trusts, Blue Nature Alliance
  Location: Main Room
  When: Tuesday 27 Oct 2026, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

  The Blue Nature Alliance shares lessons learned from their conservation finance team and partners on what enables successful conservation finance planning for marine areas

• Applying Consensus State of Nature Metrics in Oceans

  Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Tuesday 27 Oct 2026, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

  The session will present the consensus State of Nature Indicators and Metrics as applied in the marine environment, moving from technical alignment to what the final metrics mean for practical implementation. It will explore how the metrics can be embedded into existing frameworks, standards and business decision-making, alongside insights from early testing and the World Economic Forum's new Marine Primer for State of Nature Metrics designed to support uptake.

• Closed-door Incentives dialogue

  Organizers: Business for Nature, InTent
  Location: Small Room
  When: Tuesday 27 Oct 2026, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

  A dedicated space to exchange insights on reforming fiscal and financial incentives, strengthening enabling conditions, and accelerating collective progress toward achieving Target 18 of the Global Biodiversity Framework.

• From commitments to action: what Africa’s seventh national reports reveal about progress, gaps and opportunities for delivering the global biodiversity framework

  Organizers: WWF international
  Location: Main Room
  When: Tuesday 27 Oct 2026, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

  With the Mainstreaming Champions Group comprised of both developing and developed country parties; Belgium, South Africa, Finland, Mexico, Portugal.

• Bridging Frameworks, Connecting Scales: Policy Coherence for Landscape Restoration and NbS as the delivery mechanisms across the Rio Conventions

  Organizers: WWF International
  Location: Small Room
  When: Tuesday 27 Oct 2026, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

  Bridging Frameworks, Connecting Scales: Policy Coherence for Landscape Restoration and NbS as the delivery mechanism across the Rio Conventions

• On the frontlines of nature, peace and security

  Organizers: WWF International, Conflict and Environment Observatory, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), Conservation International (CI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Tuesday 27 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

  Biodiversity hotspots and critical ecosystems are increasingly exposed to the threats posed by armed conflicts and insecurity. But what does it take to protect nature in these settings? And why is it vital for the implementation of the KMGBF that we are able to do so?

• Financing Nature: Celebrating Progress, Partnerships and Innovation

  Organizers: The Pew Charitable Trusts
  Location: Main Room
  When: Tuesday 27 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

  (Reception) Bringing the conservation finance community together to celebrate progress, strengthen partnerships and build momentum for innovative, durable financing for nature

• From biodiversity knowledge to Nature-Positive Finance: Scientific foundations for Action

  Organizers: French Foundation for Biodiversity Research
  Location: Main Room
  When: Wednesday 28 Oct 2026, 9:00 am - 10:00 am

  From commitments to action: building the scientific infrastructure for nature-positive finance and stronger biodiversity decisions through data, monitoring, and partnerships between science, business and finance.

• Transforming the Financial Sector: Pathways for the Integration of Nature – Lessons Learned & Action Priorities

  Organizers: Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Wednesday 28 Oct 2026, 10:30 am - 11:30 am

  Transforming the Financial Sector: Pathways for the Integration of Nature - Lessons Learned & Action Priorities

• From Targets to Landscapes: National Experiences in Implementing Forest and Landscape Restoration

  Organizers: Brazilian Coalition on Climate, Forests and Agriculture
  Location: Small Room
  When: Wednesday 28 Oct 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  How countries are turning global restoration targets into policies, finance, monitoring systems and action on the ground, with lessons from different national and landscape contexts.

• UKBBF Working Dialogues: Translating the Global Biodiversity Framework into Business Action

  Organizers: UK Business & Biodiversity Forum (UKBBF)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Wednesday 28 Oct 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

  The UK Business & Biodiversity Forum convenes its business delegation and partners in an interactive Working Dialogue to translate GBF commitments and COP17 outcomes into corporate action.

• Nature, Water and Climate: Delivering Resilient Landscapes for a Nature-Positive Future

  Organizers: ICMM
  Location: Small Room
  When: Wednesday 28 Oct 2026, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

  Where nature, water and climate converge: how landscape-scale stewardship can unite conservation, communities and industry to deliver resilient landscapes and accelerate the Global Biodiversity Framework.

• How can tools and service providers embed State of Nature metrics

  Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Wednesday 28 Oct 2026, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

  This will be an invite-only clinic for nature framework and standard owners, data and tools developers and consultancies to dive deeper into the technical detail of the State of Nature Indicators and Metrics Framework and Initial Measurement Guidance. A presentation will cover an overview of the guidance and highlight key calls to action for organisations in the audience to support the uptake of metrics. The majority of the session will be dedicated to audience discussion and provide an opportunity to ask questions directly to the Nature Positive Initiative team and partners.

• Collaborative Management Partnerships in Africa: Government Perspectives on Scaling Effective Governance Models for Achieving Nature-Positive Outcomes and the KM-GBF

  Organizers: Wildlife Conservation Society, African Wildlife Foundation
  Location: Main Room
  When: Wednesday 28 Oct 2026, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

  Enhancing Collaborative Management Partnerships for Nature and People

• Building Brazil’s National Restoration Monitoring System: Data, Partnerships and Geospatial Intelligence for Biodiversity Targets

  Organizers: Brazilian Coalition on Climate, Forests and Agriculture
  Location: Small Room
  When: Wednesday 28 Oct 2026, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

  Restoration only counts if it can be measured. As countries report on Target 2 of the Global Biodiversity Framework, credible monitoring systems are becoming essential for transparency, finance and accountability. Brazil is building a national restoration monitoring system that combines government data, civil society platforms such as the Restoration Observatory, and geospatial intelligence. This session presents how this system is being designed, the partnerships behind it, its alignment with international frameworks such as FAO's Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring (FERM), and lessons for other countries seeking to track restoration progress.

• Measuring What Matters: Towards a Nature-Positive and Human-Positive Future

  Organizers: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Wednesday 28 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

  Can We Measure a Nature-Positive and Human-Positive Future? Exploring how new metrics can reshape development, policy, and our relationship with nature.

• The Recovery Gap: Are we creating the conditions for nature to recover?

  Organizers: Wild Legacy CIC, Gallifrey Foundation
  Location: Small Room
  When: Wednesday 28 Oct 2026, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

  How can considerable conservation, restoration, policy and investment coexist with continuing ecological decline?

• Government & FI Experiences of Implementing Target 14 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

  Organizers: Defra - Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (UK)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Thursday 29 Oct 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 am

  Government & FI Experiences of Implementing GBF Target 14

• The Science Panel for the Congo Basin: A Dialogue on the Assessment Report 2025

  Organizers: Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Science Panel for the Congo Basin (SPCB)
  Location: Small Room
  When: Thursday 29 Oct 2026, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

  Connecting Congo Basin science with policy and investment to advance biodiversity conservation, ecosystem resilience and implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

• Agroecology in motion: From vision to action

  Organizers: Agroecology Coalition
  Location: Main Room
  When: Thursday 29 Oct 2026, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

  Agroecology is a biodiversity-friendly approach identified under KMGBF Target 10. It also drives food systems transformation by strengthening local autonomy, reducing external inputs, and building resilience from the ground up.

• Closing Reception

  Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
  Location: Main Room
  When: Thursday 29 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

  (Reception) Closing reception of the Nature Positive Pavilion, celebrating two weeks of intensive, interesting discussions animated by dozens of sessions from 25 partners.