Nature Positive Pavilion COP17

The Nature Positive Pavilion at COP17

In 2026 the Nature Positive Initiative is hosting a large pavilion at the UNCBD COP17 in Armenia.

The Pavilion creates a platform within the blue zone for a wide range of voices to come together to ensure that nature-positive outcomes are secured and on track. It offers a vibrant and welcoming space for a diversity of voices to engage and collaborate, identifying and scaling the solutions needed to halt and reverse nature loss.

During the two-week period, the Pavilion will host events across two rooms, with a varied and engaging schedule. Partners share insight and inspiration to all dedicated to delivering the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

See the schedule below for information about each event

 

Nature Positive Initiative Events

 

Past events...

  • Closing Reception
    Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    (Reception) Closing reception of the Nature Positive Pavilion, celebrating two weeks of intensive, interesting discussions animated by dozens of sessions from 25 partners.
  • Agroecology in motion: From vision to action
    Organizers: Agroecology Coalition
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • 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:
    Connecting Congo Basin science with policy and investment to advance biodiversity conservation, ecosystem resilience and implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
  • MoU Signing between EBRD and WWF
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    TBD
  • The Recovery Gap: Are we creating the conditions for nature to recover?
    Organizers: Wild Legacy CIC, Gallifrey Foundation
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    How can considerable conservation, restoration, policy and investment coexist with continuing ecological decline?
  • Measuring What Matters: Towards a Nature-Positive and Human-Positive Future
    Organizers: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    Can We Measure a Nature-Positive and Human-Positive Future? Exploring how new metrics can reshape development, policy, and our relationship with nature.
  • 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:
    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.
  • 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:
    Enhancing Collaborative Management Partnerships for Nature and People
  • How can tools and service providers embed State of Nature metrics
    Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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.
  • Applying Consensus State of Nature Metrics in the Ocean
    Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • Nature, Water and Climate: Delivering Resilient Landscapes for a Nature-Positive Future
    Organizers: ICMM
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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.
  • UKBBF Working Dialogues: Translating the Global Biodiversity Framework into Business Action
    Organizers: UK Business & Biodiversity Forum (UKBBF)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • From Targets to Landscapes: National Experiences in Implementing Forest and Landscape Restoration
    Organizers: Brazilian Coalition on Climate, Forests and Agriculture
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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.
  • Transforming the Financial Sector: Pathways for the Integration of Nature – Lessons Learned & Action Priorities
    Organizers: Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    Transforming the Financial Sector: Pathways for the Integration of Nature - Lessons Learned & Action Priorities
  • From biodiversity knowledge to Nature-Positive Finance: Scientific foundations for Action
    Organizers: French Foundation for Biodiversity Research
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • Financing Nature: Celebrating Progress, Partnerships and Innovation
    Organizers: The Pew Charitable Trusts
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    (Networking Reception) Celebrating conservation finance partnerships and innovative solutions that are mobilizing resources, empowering communities and delivering lasting conservation outcomes for people and nature.
  • From Protected Areas to Public Assets: Unlocking the Potential of IPSAS 51
    Organizers: IkTaar
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    Discover how IPSAS 51 can bring nature onto public balance sheets, transforming conservation decisions and accountability. Explore this groundbreaking standard’s potential to accelerate progress towards our global 30x30 conservation target.
  • 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:
    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?
  • 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:
    Bridging Frameworks, Connecting Scales: Policy Coherence for Landscape Restoration and NbS as the delivery mechanism across the Rio Conventions
  • 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:
    With the Mainstreaming Champions Group comprised of both developing and developed country parties; Belgium, South Africa, Finland, Mexico, Portugal.
  • From Commitment to Capital: Scaling Finance for durable Marine Protection
    Organizers: The Pew Charitable Trusts, Blue Nature Alliance
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    The Blue Nature Alliance shares lessons learned from their conservation finance team and partners on what enables successful conservation finance planning for marine areas
  • Freshwater Targets in Practice: Collective Action and New Financing Models at Basin Scale
    Organizers: ETIFOR | Valuing Nature
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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.
  • 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:
    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.
  • Getting started with nature measurement: from pilot sites to practical action
    Organizers: Ramboll
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    (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
  • Building Systemic Transformation Through Positive Tipping Points
    Organizers: WWF International
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    Building Systemic Transformation Through Positive Tipping Points
  • Agroecology: The Key to Delivering Target 10
    Organizers: Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), CARITAS Bangladesh, BOKU University
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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.
  • From Hotspots to Action: Using Data to Deliver Nature-Positive Outcomes
    Organizers: ICMM
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    From hotspots to action: how emerging data, tools and risk frameworks can turn biodiversity insight into decisions that accelerate the Global Biodiversity Framework.
  • Paying Twice: The Fiscal Case for Reforming Nature-Harming Subsidies
    Organizers: Conservation International (CI)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    (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.
  • Valuing Nature Consistently: A Global Standard for Forestry Natural Capital
    Organizers: International Sustainable Forestry Coalition (ISFC)
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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.
  • A Global Baseline for Better Decisions on Nature
    Organizers: World Economic Forum (WEF)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    A Global Baseline for Better Decisions on Nature
  • From Commitment to Cash Flow: Delivering the Promise of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility
    Organizers: Conservation International (CI)
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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.
  • From uncertainty to action: measuring nature for better decisions
    Organizers: Ramboll
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    From uncertainty to action: Choosing the right biodiversity metrics to measure nature, understand impacts, track progress, and build confidence in delivering nature positive outcomes
  • 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:
    Raising our sights on Inland Waters to achieve 2050 Goals – Challenges, Early Successes and Clear Pathways
  • Towards a Nature Positive economy: the role of finance and insurance
    Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • State of Nature Metrics; Getting started on your nature-positive journey
    Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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
  • A Global Forest-Sector Approach to Natural Capital
    Organizers: International Sustainable Forestry Coalition (ISFC)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • 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
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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.
  • Final Consensus State of Nature Indicators & Metrics ready for use
    Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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 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), Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF)
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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?
  • Embedding Nature into Business and Value Chains
    Organizers: World Climate Foundation (WCF)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • What’s next for the Nature Positive agenda?
    Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
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    Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
    Location: Small Room
    When:
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  • The Interoperability of Standards, Measurement and Guidance Frameworks for Nature Positive Outcomes
    Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • Standing Forests, Resilient Harvests: Financing Deforestation-free Agri Value Chains
    Organizers: World Economic Forum (WEF)
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    Standing Forests, Resilient Harvests: Financing Deforestation-free Agri Value Chains
  • The business case for nature resilience: From evidence to investment
    Organizers: ERM
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    How nature-dependent industries can quantify resilience, build credible business cases and translate nature-related evidence into investment and capital-allocation decisions.
  • Scaling Corporate Action for Nature: From Ambition to Implementation
    Organizers: Accenture, UK Business & Biodiversity Forum (UKBBF), Natcap
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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
  • Beyond the Business as Usual: Landscape-Scale Change for a Nature Positive Future
    Organizers: Nature Positive Landscapes Initiative (NPLI)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • Genetic Intelligence for Biodiversity: Building Better Metrics for Global Monitoring
    Organizers: Instituto Tecnologico Vale
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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.
  • Nature measurement speed dating: Company case studies
    Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • ISSB Nature Practice Statement: Business and Finance Roundtable
    Organizers: EY, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • From Assessment to Ambitious Action: Delivering Against the Nature-Positive Transition
    Organizers: CDP
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    Hear from private sector and civil society leaders on the latest developments in nature target-setting, delivery and transition planning.
  • Building Nature Value at Mine Sites and Across Landscapes: Case Studies in Action
    Organizers: RESOLVE, Regeneration Enterprises
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    Mining companies, NGOs, and restoration partners share real-world examples of implementing Nature Positive commitments through biodiversity planning, landscape conservation, restoration, and innovative partnerships.
  • (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:
    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.
  • Strengthening human rights and safeguards for nature-based solutions
    Organizers: University of British Columbia (UBC)
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    Strengthening human rights and safeguards for nature-based solutions
  • 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:
    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.
  • How companies measure and report on nature
    Organizers: Forética
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    What companies are learning about measuring and reporting on nature
  • Critical progress in achieving 30×30 at the country level: finance, partnership and political leadership
    Organizers: The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    Critical progress in achieving 30x30 at the country level: finance, partnership and political leadership
  • Nature Positive Starts with Protecting the Last Homes of Threatened Species
    Organizers: RESOLVE, Quick Response Fund for Nature
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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
  • From Margins to Mainstream: Scaling Wetland Finance to Deliver the Global Biodiversity Framework
    Organizers: BirdLife International
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • 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:
    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.
  • The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: Reforming incentives for economic and supply chain resilience
    Organizers: Business for Nature, InTent
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    $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.
  • Nature Positive in Practice: From Ambition to Concrete Action
    Organizers: ERM
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    Businesses and practitioners share actions already underway and map how practical delivery contributes to nature-positive goals across sectors, landscapes and value chains.
  • 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:
    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.
  • High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People: Matchmaking Hub
    Organizers: High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People, Nature X Pairs
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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.
  • 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:
    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.
  • CDP COP 17 Reception
    Organizers: CDP
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    Join us after our presentation to meet CDP's COP17 delegation team and discuss how environmental data can continue to support scaling biodiversity conservation and restoration. Walk-ins are welcome! The reception is primarily for those who attended our event, which is why I wanted a quick turn around if possible. I will contact the caterer, my goal is to have the food arrive so that something can happen at 6. In addition, I wanted to let you know we should have completed slides for both events but the 20th. Apologies for the delay, we are still getting info from our partners.
  • 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:
    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.
  • Building the Global Baseline: Implementing Target 15 of the GBF and the Future of Nature-related Disclosure
    Organizers: CDP
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    Exploring the future of nature-related disclosure and reporting, including TNFD progress, the ISSB Nature Practice Statement and implications for GBF Target 15 implementation.
  • BirdLife workshop (invite only)
    Organizers: BirdLife International
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    This event will be an invitation-only workshop. Further details will be shared together with the invitation.
  • 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:
    Scaling action for nature: using circular economy to accelerate the delivery of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)
  • 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:
    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
  • The Nature Finance Tipping Point: What Will It Take to Move Capital at Scale in Africa?
    Organizers: FSD Africa
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • How can tools and service providers embed State of Nature metrics
    Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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.
  • Reaching Target 18: Lessons Learned from Implementation Efforts
    Organizers: Conservation International (CI), UNDP Biodiversity Finance Initiative (Biofin)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    Target 18: Making Reform Work
  • From Raw to Regenerative: Financing Africa’s Blue Bioeconomy
    Organizers: FSD Africa
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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.
  • The role of data and technology in facilitating state of nature metrics
    Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • Halting and Reversing Deforestation by 2030: Implementing the COP30 Presidency Roadmap
    Organizers: Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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.
  • 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:
    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.
  • (Screening) Becoming Nature Positive
    Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    Film Screening + Reception: Screening of the short film, ‘Becoming Nature Positive’, followed by audience interaction and discussion, followed by a drinks reception.
  • Scaling Nature-Positive action: Connecting corporate commitments, national targets, and spatial planning science
    Organizers: Conservation International (CI)
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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.
  • 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:
    Join all the major sustainable forest certification programs in a collaborative conversation about connecting nature-related reporting requirements to credible forest health outcomes.
  • From commitments to action: Business and the Rio Convention synergies
    Organizers: Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    Connecting business action, reporting and finance across the Rio Conventions to strengthen policy coherence and accelerate implementation on climate, biodiversity and land.
  • Final Consensus State of Nature Indicators & Metrics ready for use
    Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • Code Red for the Tapanuli Orangutan: A species on the brink of extinction without a recovery plan.
    Organizers: Mighty Earth
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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.
  • 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:
    Policies for a Sustainable Bioeconomy in the Pan-Amazon: Launch of the Bioeconomy Radar and Pathways for Action
  • Fold COP17 flowers – origami workshop and nature finance
    Organizers: Friends of the Cali Fund
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    Join us in the Nature Positive Pavilion for a mindful origami session. Fold paper flowers, listen to inspiring species stories and champion fair finance for nature restoration at CBD COP17.
  • The Bioeconomy Trade-Off: Meeting Energy Needs Without Increasing Pressure on Forests
    Organizers: Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Chatham House
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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?
  • Beyond the Biodiversity Finance Gap: Embedding Nature in Economic and Financial Decision-Making
    Organizers: The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    Nature as Economic Infrastructure: Rethinking Finance, Risk and Resilience
  • 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:
    Eight Global Targets. One Bioeconomy Plan: Transforming Biodiversity into Sustainable Development in The Amazon
  • Nature Data as Infrastructure for Business Action
    Organizers: IBAT
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • The Recovery Gap: Are we creating the conditions for nature to recover?
    Organizers: Wild Legacy CIC, Gallifrey Foundation
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    How can considerable conservation, restoration, policy and investment coexist with continuing ecological decline?
  • From Fragmentation to Alignment: Advancing Rio Conventions Synergies to Deliver the Global Biodiversity Framework
    Organizers: The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    From Fragmentation to Alignment: Advancing Rio Conventions Synergies to Deliver the Global Biodiversity Framework
  • 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:
    Celebrating International Snow Leopard Day: Mobilizing Global Action Through Sports, Culture and Presidential Leadership — Join Kyrgyzstan's #23for23 Movement for Mountain Biodiversity
  • 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:
    Interweaving Indigenous, local and scientific knowledge to strengthen Amazon biodiversity conservation, territorial governance and implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF).
  • 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, Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry – Kenya (State Department for Climate Change and Forestry), Campaign for Nature, Ministère de l'Environnement et du Développement Durable – Madagascar, IUCN – Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    Making OECMs Deliver: Local Stewardship, National Standards, Nature Positive Outcomes
  • The right places and the right time: mapping urgency and threat to guide GBF targets
    Organizers: The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    The right places and the right time: mapping urgency and threat to guide GBF targets
  • The World Future Policy Award 2025 on Biodiversity practices
    Organizers: World Future Council, Tropical Forest Foundation (OroVerde)
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    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.
  • 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:
    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.
  • Opening Reception
    Organizers: Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • 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, Government of Zimbabwe, ZimParks
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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.
  • 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:
    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.
  • 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:
    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
  • From Measurement to Action: Exploring this Challenge with NATURE Impacts
    Organizers: University Of Oxford, WWF-UK, WWF-Colombia
    Location: Small Room
    When:
    From monitoring progress to prioritising action: using data, modelling and country-led expertise to support implementation of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
  • Building the New Architecture for Indigenous-Led Nature Finance
    Organizers: Conservation International (CI)
    Location: Main Room
    When:
    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
  • 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:
    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.
  • 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:
    From Global Commitments to Subnational Action: Multiple Pathways for GBF Implementation