Please note, these events are now over
The Nature Positive Initiative coordinated the Nature Positive Pavilion at UNCBD COP16 in conjunction with partners, and also hosted a series of engaging events to deepen understanding around the concept Nature Positive.
Find a livestream for each day from the Nature Positive Pavilion via YouTube. All videos are available on YouTube to catch up.
Past events...
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- Join the Nature Positive Initiative and Pavilion team for the closing party.
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- Green Energy and Sustainability Association (GESA) presents renewable energy technologies has potential to positively impact our nature while we continue to satisfy our energy requirement
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- Join the Villars Institute, Open Planet Studios and Woven Foundation to explore how the conservation community can collaborate with leading artists and filmmakers to combine biodiversity research with powerful storytelling to change the way we think, feel, and act to become Nature Positive. This session will also feature a preview of a new feature film that raises global awareness on the need for nature restoration at scale to stem accelerating biodiversity loss. The film will premiere at COP30 in Belém, Brazil in 2025.
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- In-situ conservation of local climate resilient species of cereals and crops ensure food and livelihood security: Some success stories from South Asia. Session organized by South Asian Forum for Environment (SAFE).
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- Financing Nature-Based Solutions in Africa: Strengthening the Investment Environment
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Location: Big Room
When: - Panel discussion hosted by FSD Africa which will focus on tackling investment barriers and leveraging rising interest to accelerate financing for nature-based solutions and boost biodiversity and sustainability across Africa.
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- Forest Declaration Assessment launch: Taking stock of progress on the 2030 forest goals for biodiversity and climate
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Location: Big Room
When: - Brazilian Restoration and Reforestation Observatory & Climate Focus invite you to join the Forest Declaration Assessment partners as they launch the 2024 assessment of progress against global forests goals. How well are forests being protected – and what remains to be done?
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- Human-rights based approaches to conservation – Lessons learned from safeguarding implementation and launch of new web-based assessment tool
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Location: Small Room
When: - Legacy Landscapes Fund (LLF) together with implementing partners (IEPE, WCS, ZGF) and DLA Piper will showcase environmental and social safeguards implementation and launch a web-based human rights due diligence tool.
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- The Nature Conservancy presents the GBF and inland waters: From targets to implementation
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- Building momentum for youth priorities toward 30×30 and BBNJ implementation, a nature positive path to UNOC3
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Location: Small Room
When: - EarthEcho International, the High Seas Alliance, the Pew Charitable Trusts and WILDTRUST, present a roundtable discussion uplifting youth priorities in advancing 30x30 and BBNJ, outlining strategies for partner government ministers and young ocean leaders to collaborate for action.
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- From Maputo to Bogota: Lessons in peace and nature from post-conflict contexts
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Location: Big Room
When: - Conservation Initiative presents to spotlight thought leadership and implementation of human-centered conservation programming in efforts to rebuild the social and environmental fabric of societies which experienced conflict over natural resources and other root causes.
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- Showcasing Best Practices from Agroeocology transition processes in Africa
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Location: Small Room
When: - Agroecology Transition in Africa: Harnessing the Power of resilient food systems and sustainable agricultural approaches in Policy and Programs.
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- Biodiversity Stewardship Units introduce a new methodology, co-created by the Yawanawá people, to reward their contributions and those of other Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities to delivering measurable biodiversity outcomes.
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- Indigenous Pacific Island nature-based solutions for biodiversity, resilience and wellbeing
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Location: Big Room
When: - Join us for a high-level celebration of the locally and indigenous-driven achievements of Pacific Island countries and communities to address biodiversity loss and climate change.
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- Cultivating Change: Scaling Nature-Positive Agriculture and Ranching for Biodiversity and Climate
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Location: Big Room
When: - The Nature Conservancy proudly presents "Cultivating Change: Scaling Nature-Positive Agriculture and Ranching for Biodiversity and Climate".
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- Comparing Mechanisms and Metrics for the Conservation of Continental Waters with a Focus on South America
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Location: Small Room
When: - Pew Charitable Trusts presents river protection initiatives are advancing worldwide using a range of policy, flow-based, and area-based tools. This will be a roundtable reflection on challenges in measuring and scaling up progress.
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- Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy presents the biologically-rich Eastern Tropical Pacific, vital to ocean equilibrium and the livelihoods of local communities, requiring strong political leadership and effective implementation of a network of Marine Protected Areas.
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- Progress towards 30×30: innovation and lessons at country and regional levels
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Location: Big Room
When: - The Nature Conservancy presents a global 30x30 protection target is ambitious, but many countries are making significant progress through policy, science, financing and protected area designation since the signing of the Global Biodiversity Framework.
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- (Invite Only) Making Peace Between Food and Nature: High Level Country Dialogue on Incorporating Food Systems in NBSAPs
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Location: Small Room
When: - A workshop focused on exploring how to learn from and scale Food Forward NBSAPs, followed by an evening reception. Organised by the Food and Land Use Coalition (including WRI), WWF, Climate Focus, GAFF and the NDC Partnership with members of the Alliance of Champions for Food Systems Transformation (ACF).
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- Birds are messengers of peace and aptly demonstrate our interconnectedness across continents. During this event, BirdLife International will share diverse global voices of hope calling for a nature-positive future.
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- Why is local progress towards more authority of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in conservation lagging behind? Which barriers do local actors face, and how are they addressing them through collective action?
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- Mountains to Mangroves: The power and potential of large-scale protection & restoration in the Eastern Himalayas
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Location: Small Room
When: - A panel discussion hosted by Conservation International and partners.
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- From Global Goals to Local Action – Setting Science-Based Targets for Nature Positive Cities
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Location: Big Room
When: - Science Based Targets Network - SBTN is developing an overarching guideline for cities to set science-based targets for nature: providing global alignment on target setting methodologies and metrics that allow cities to assess their own impact areas and set feasible yet meaningful targets to set cities up for a nature positive future.
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- Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership - CISL presents How can markets be transformed to deliver nature positive outcomes, and how can business and finance contribute to that change?
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- This fireside chat, led by the Instituto Regenera, will explore indigenous production and agroecology’s role in fostering biodiversity resilience. Real-world applications and partnerships will illustrate how traditional and local practices strengthen ecological health and community well-being. This event will be held in Portuguese and the event organizers will try their best to speak in a way Spanish speakers can also understand and interact.
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- Action Unlocked: Driving Corporate Change with Validated Science-Based Targets for Nature
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Location: Big Room
When: - The Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) shares corporate insights and outcomes from its year-long target validation pilot, while its new target validation host, the Accountability Accelerator, outlines plans for its upcoming target validation services.
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- A high-level discussion between private and civil society actors on the landscape, opportunities, and challenges to delivering a renewable energy sector that measurably contributes to a nature- and people-positive future. Session led by Ørsted.
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- Creating new partnerships to reform Environmentally Harmful Subsidies (EHS) and implement GBF Target 18
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Location: Small Room
When: - An invite-only closed round table discussion among public and private sector actors to explore smart solutions to overcome barriers to Environmentally Harmful Subsidies (EHS) reform and implement GBF Target 18. Led by The Capitals Coalition.
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- A Safe & Just Energy Transition: Securing indigenous peoples rights and protecting nature in the sourcing of transition minerals. A session organized by the SIRGE coalition.
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- Accounting methodologies for the quantification of negative and positive biodiversity impacts in the context of a nature positive trajectory
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Location: Small Room
When: - Accounting methodologies for the quantification of negative and positive biodiversity impacts in the context of a nature positive trajectory. A panel discussion led by CDC Biodiversité.
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- Interact with sector leaders to discuss how innovative technologies and community-led initiatives can drive transformative change towards a nature positive future. A roundtable led by the World Climate Foundation.
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- How can the Nature Action Tracker independently assess Government efforts, fact-check local implementation, and help us learn what works to scale and accelerate?
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- Whole-of-society approach to the implementation of Global Biodiversity Framework: Public-private collaboration
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Location: Big Room
When: - This event will showcase concrete tools put in place by Finnish companies, complemented by high-level international commentaries. Organised by SITRA - the Finnish Innovation Fund, Confederation of Finnish Industries, Paulig Group, S-Group, and WWF. Light breakfast and coffee/tea will be served at 07:45 am.
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- SPECIAL EVENT: Evening Reception – Innovative Finance Leveraging Durable Conservation for Nature and People
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Location: Big Room
When: - Reception, hosted by The Pew Charitable Trusts and partners, will highlight global marine conservation finance initiatives, led by Indigenous champions, communities, and government partners toward achievement of Target 3.
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- The Road to COP30: creating an enabling policy environment to unlock further landscape-level action
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Location: Small Room
When: - The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) presents "Bridging Policy and Practice: Aligning Business and Government Priorities to Scale Landscape-Level Action and Drive Synergies for COP30."
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- Incentivising and promoting a race to the top: a focus on investors and lenders
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Location: Big Room
When: - This NPI session will be a panel discussion focusing on how the set of state of nature metrics can help investors and lenders monitor and track the impact of their activity.
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- Convening key stakeholders to reflect upon the guidance needed for businesses and financial sector to integrate and disclose nature in their transition plans, as well as the role that transition plans can play in progressing the GBF. Roundtable led by CDP.
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- Incentivising a race to the top: A focus on corporates and complex supply chains
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Location: Big Room
When: - Supply chain traceability is a major hurdle for corporates trying to achieve nature-positive outcomes. This session will explore the challenges of tracking nature impacts in complex supply chains and discuss how corporates and financiers can iteratively move towards increasing the proportion of their value chain that is traceable, engaging material value chain stakeholders on the need to apply entry level (at least) and standard (recommended) metrics for nature. We will cover: 1. The importance of tracking nature positive outcomes at location-level, in order to ensure credibility, manage greenwashing and misinformation 2. The importance of value chain actors and other stakeholders in creating an enabling environment for incentivising a ‘race to the top’
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- Scaling up land-based solution – Financing the transition toward sustainable land-based value chainss to deliver on the three Rio Convention goals
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Location: Small Room
When: - The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) presents "Mobilizing Capital for Sustainable Land Use: Aligning Financial Incentives and Repurposing Subsidies to Drive Transformative Change Across Forestry, Agriculture, and Food Systems."
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- This NPI session will introduce draft common ‘state of nature metrics’ to drive, monitor and demonstrate Nature Positive outcomes, why they are needed, and how to provide input to them.
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- Inmersión a experiencias de monitoreos comunitarios sobre la biodiversidad en Colombia en el marco de esfuerzos de mitigación del cambio climático
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Location: Small Room
When: - Inmersión a experiencias de monitoreos comunitarios sobre la biodiversidad en Colombia en el marco de esfuerzos de mitigación del cambio climático.
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- Promoting ocean-based climate actions NBSAP and NDC: challenges and opportunities for Latin America
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Location: Big Room
When: - The event will showcase examples of how integrating marine biodiversity into NDCs and NBSAPs can address both biodiversity and climate crises, focusing on priority actions and cooperation among Latin American countries.
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- Conversation and Special Announcement on Sovereign Debt Conversions for Nature and Climate
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Location: Big Room
When: - Join Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Re:wild, Wildlife Conservation Society, and World Wildlife Fund US for a conversation and special announcement on sovereign debt conversions for nature and climate.
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- (Invite Only) Operationalising state of nature metrics for businesses and financial institutions
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Location: Small Room
When: - This NPI invite only session will explore how this set of state of nature metrics can be piloted and rolled out by corporates and financial institutions in 2025.
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- Join WWF and partners for this special event on the Amazon Protected Areas Program (ARPA).
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- World Climate Foundation (WCF) presents this event to interact with experts to discuss the transformative potential of the blue economy
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- A short introduction to the Nature Positive Initiative’s state of nature metrics work and plans for piloting in 2025, followed by a Q&A and opportunity to chat with the NPI team.
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- Breakfast session: Nature positive fast forward: matching high ambition with high quality for forest and landscape restoration
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Location: Big Room
When: - The Global Partnership for Forest and Landscape Restoration and the Initiative 20x20 invite you to a lively panel discussion with leading governments from Latin America and champion organizations that recognize the contribution of landscape restoration towards nature positive.
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- SPECIAL EVENT: Evening reception – The road to Nature-Positive: Collaboration and partnerships needed to accelerate implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework
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Location: Big Room
When: - Join us for the “The Road to Nature Positive” reception, hosted by WBCSD, Business for Nature, the World Economic Forum, Capitals Coalition, CDP, CISL and the World Benchmarking Alliance.
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- (Invite only) How do we feed the world and protect nature in a world beyond 1.5°C
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Location: Small Room
When: - Nature Finance will be presenting a session focused on exploring sustainable food systems and food security in a world beyond 1.5 degrees of warming and how financial mechanisms can be used to scale these solutions.
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- Scaling up land-based solutions to deliver on the three Rio Convention goals – Unlocking private sector potential: innovative approaches to scaling land-based solutions for Rio Convention goals
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Location: Big Room
When: - The World Business Council for Sustainable Development presents "Unlocking Private Sector Potential: Innovative Approaches to Scaling Land-Based Solutions for Rio Convention Goals."
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- World Climate Foundation (WCF) presents this event to navigate the strategies addressing the current shortfall in private sector investment in nature-based solutions
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- Invest in Nature: Progress and Future of Biodiversity Finance– Roundtable of Partnership of Biodiversity and Finance (PBF)
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Location: Small Room
When: - Event presented by the World Resources Institute (WRI).
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- 30×30 in North America: National, Subnational, and Indigenous Efforts to Achieve 30×30 in Canada, the United States, and Mexico
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Location: Big Room
When: - A panel discussion led by Campaign For Nature.
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- (Invite only) Pursuing the Holy Grail: Developing a Global Biodiversity Metric – Challenges and Opportunities
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Location: Small Room
When: - A roundtable discussion presented by World Climate Foundation (WCF) in collaboration with Ramboll.
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- Mecanismo financiero innovador que puede contribuir a la conservación del bosque húmedo tropical y su biodiversidad a través de la protección y gestión del Jaguar como especie paraguas. Una sesión organizada por la Fundación Pachamama.
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- Aligning nature metrics to strengthen business accountability and accelerate action toward nature-positive outcomes
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Location: Big Room
When: - The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) presents corporate accountability on nature - find out how a prioritized set of nature metrics can catalyze corporate action on nature
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- Designing What’s Needed: Accelerating Nature-Based Carbon Solutions in Africa for Scalable Impact
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Location: Small Room
When: - FSD Africa to unveil transformative initiative at COP 16: Expert roundtable to boost investment in nature-based carbon solutions and sustainable development.
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- What is the full role of private finance in delivering a nature-positive future?
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Location: Big Room
When: - This panel discussion, organized by the PRI - Principles for Responsible Investing (a UN-supported network of investors), will explore the varied ways through which financial institutions can contribute to our societal goal.
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- Banking on Nature Positive – Forward-looking pathways for public and private banks and financial regulators to contribute towards a nature-positive agenda
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Location: Small Room
When: - WWF will present compelling cases for Nature Positive Finance — a paradigm that places nature at the heart of financial decision-making.
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- Prioritizing Nature in a Global Land Squeeze: Monitoring using advanced geospatial data, Google Earth Engine and AI
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Location: Big Room
When: - World Resources Institute - WRI presents from monitoring ecosystems and land use, to informing and improving the types of decisions conservation leaders make, advanced geospatial technology and AI tools are key to making data-driven decisions.
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- (Invite only) Building Towards Policy Coherence: How biodiversity regulation can be a shared goal amongst stakeholders?
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Location: Small Room
When: - WEF presents this session being hosted under Chatham-house rules to discuss the barriers for policy coherence and set a collective action path for public-private cooperation on KMGBF implementation. The session will cover issues of policy instruments for economic transition, limits to extractive growth model and repurposing incentives towards sustainable resource management.
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- Innovative Sustainable Financing Solutions and Tools towards conserving 30% of the Ocean by 2030
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Location: Big Room
When: - Join the Blue Nature Alliance at CBD COP16 for a dynamic panel discussion on global strategies in sustainable marine financing. Explore best practices, innovative tools, and essential resources for countries to finance and achieve their marine 30x30 conservation goals.
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- Increasing finance flows into the preservation and restoration of nature is critical to meet the goals of the Global Biodiversity Framework. In this briefing, BloombergNEF's analysts present the latest data and analysis on public and private sector financial flows into nature, in the 2024 Edition of the Biodiversity Finance Factbook.
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- (Invite Only) Raising Ambition and Accelerating Action to Protect High Seas Biodiversity
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Location: Big Room
When: - Join us for breakfast and high level session on protecting High Seas Biodiversity - Livestream starts at 7:30am.
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- SPECIAL EVENT: WCF’s Evening Reception – Meet with leaders, innovators and experts who are striving towards a nature-positive future
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Location: Big Room
When: - World Climate Foundation (WCF) presents this reception to meet with leaders, innovators and experts who are striving towards a nature-positive future.
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- Investing in Africa, Investing in Nature: The Emerging African Biocredits Landscape
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Location: Big Room
When: - A session led by African Natural Capital Alliance.
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- Lasting Change at Scale for Biodiversity: Amplifying Corporate Action in Landscapes
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Location: Small Room
When: - The Nature Conservancy presents a panel exploring how landscape-scale initiatives in Colombia and the Latin America region are leveraging place-based supply-chain strategies to achieve effective, durable conservation.
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- The Role of Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Actioning Regenerative Agriculture
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Location: Big Room
When: - Metabolic presents a panel discussion featuring participants from various pre-competitive collaborations within the sector. The dialogue will focus on the role such initiatives play in transitioning towards nature-positive practices in food production and agriculture.
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- This event will launch a Guidance Tool to integrate agroecology into NBSAPs, promoting biodiversity and supporting sustainable food system transitions.
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- Join this session, led by Business for Nature, with a panel of leading experts to discuss why and how important it is to develop and publish a robust corporate nature strategy. Experts share insights, challenges, opportunities, and best practices for integrating concrete actions to halt and reverse nature loss into a credible strategy.
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- World Climate Foundation (WCF) presents this event to interact with business leaders and examine the critical role of businesses in addressing both the biodiversity and climate crisis.
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- Cómo el piloto de Biodiversidad de GRI demostrará que informar sobre los impactos en la biodiversidad con el nuevo Estándar GRI proporciona datos relevantes para la protección de la biodiversidad y no es una carga para las empresas.
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- The outsized role Conservation Trust Funds in SIDS play in achieving the Global Goal for Nature and how we can ensure they succeed.
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- Nature-based solutions in Africa: Unlocking the Potential of Nature Finance
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Location: Small Room
When: - A session led by the African Natural Capital Alliance in collaboration with FSD Africa.
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- Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the world’s leading impact reporting standard setter, discusses the GRI Biodiversity pilot. The pilot shows that reporting on biodiversity impacts with the new GRI Standard provides relevant data for biodiversity protection without an excessive burden for companies.
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- Developing a New Currency for Nature – The Verifiable Nature Unit: critical infrastructure for the nature finance market
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Location: Big Room
When: - African Parks present a panel discussion focused on how by measuring fiduciary-grade nature outcomes, the VNU can be used to form the basis of various nature financing mechanisms and in doing so mobilize financial resources from across sectors.
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- In partnership with the World Benchmarking Alliance, this invite-only and intimate session aims to catalyze ambition and share courage by creating space for the bold discussions needed to re-think our relationships with nature and take brave action, particularly to unlock much needed financial flows to nature-positive action.
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- Harnessing Nature-based Solutions through the Transition to Sustainable Farming
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Location: Big Room
When: - World Climate Foundation (WCF) present this event to discover how the transition to sustainable farming could harness nature-based solutions and support nature recovery
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- The Digital Revolution for Biodiversity – application of e-DNA in the mining industry
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Location: Small Room
When: - Join us for a fascinating event where we explore the intersection of technology and biodiversity in the mining industry. Learn about the groundbreaking application of e-DNA and its impact on environmental conservation. Network with industry experts and gain valuable insights into the digital revolution shaping the future of biodiversity. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to be part of the conversation!
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- Cross-sector partnership to advance science on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services scenarios
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Location: Big Room
When: - The panel, led by EY, will serve as a platform for a discussion on the intersection of business and scientific endeavors, focusing on the contributions of the insurance sector to the Biodiversity scientific agenda. This collaborative initiative, aims to delve into the reasons behind corporate interest, with a special emphasis on insurers, in addressing environmental challenges. The panel will be an insightful exploration of the multifaceted crisis we face, encompassing nature degradation and climate change as interlinked threats to our society and economy. It will highlight the significance of natural systems in mitigating the effects of extreme weather events and supporting livelihoods. Furthermore, the session will address the urgency of bolstering community resilience and the critical part that the insurance industry can play in this endeavor.
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- Evening Reception with Monsieur Periné (music) and WWF: accelerating implementation of the GBF through community-led conservation
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Location: Big Room
When: - Monsieur Periné opens this exciting reception with music. Driving a global movement for community-led conservation: Government partners and stakeholders learn from real examples from around the world, integrating land and ocean efforts into national climate and nature strategies.
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- The World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Business for Nature, and World Economic Forum together will present a session focused on exploring the sector-specific priority actions businesses can take to contribute to halting and reversing nature loss by 2030, and collaboration opportunities across the value chain, with policymakers, financial institutions and civil society.
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- Panel discussion led by the International Centre for Environmental Education and Community Development (ICENECDEV).
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- Aligning Corporate Action, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning with the GBF and NBSAPs
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Location: Big Room
When: - The Nature Conservancy brings together country delegates and private sector representatives to facilitate dialogue on how countries can contribute to country NBSAPs and the targets of the GBF.
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- Indigenous-led Conservation in Canada: preserving nature through shared knowledge and collaboration
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Location: Small Room
When: - In Canada, Indigenous-led conservation initiatives are bringing together Indigenous knowledge of landscapes, seascapes, and biodiversity with Western science and technology to create collaborative solutions and a greater understanding of nature. A panel discussion presented by National Audubon Society.
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- Nature4Climate presents a panel that will examine the alignment of international environmental conventions in the lead-up to COP30. The discussion will center on securing financial backing and political commitments to bolster global biodiversity and climate initiatives, with a particular focus on developments in Cali, Baku, and Belém.
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- Growing effective conservation management: celebrating advances and recognizing challenges to conservation quality and permanence for 30×30
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Location: Small Room
When: - Pew Charitable Trusts presents expanding support for effective management is the necessary complement to growth in protected area coverage towards 30x30. Cooperative efforts among funders, NGOs, and government agencies in Latin America are demonstrating important advances, but consolidating and bringing these efforts to scale remains a challenge.
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- Biodiversity baselines to policy: exploring universities' contributions to a Nature Positive future. A session led by Nature Positive Universities.
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- Este evento presentara el trabajo de varias comunidades de Firmantes de Paz que han documentado la biodiversidad de sus territorios con el apoyo del proyecto Paz con la Naturaleza.
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- (Invite Only) Venture Beyond: Why Aligning Finance, Policy, and Innovation Drives Nature Positive Investment
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Location: Small Room
When: - This event, presented by Nature Finance, will explore the critical role of early-stage investments in advancing nature-positive ventures, focusing on aligning finance, policy, and innovation to foster sustainable market growth and collaboration.
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- Implementing Target 15: taking stock and building on data, disclosure and real economy progress
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Location: Big Room
When: - This event will show how governments and organizations can utilize the extensive data and established initiatives to drive the implementation of Target 15 and track progress against GBF targets. Organized by CDP in collaboration with TNFD.
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- An interactive session brought to life by the Capitals Coalition.
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- The Nature Conservancy is championing the empowerment of women in savannah and grassland conservation by bringing together regional leaders from Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Africa, and Mongolia. This assembly aims to enhance conservation initiatives across these diverse landscapes.
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- Looking from COP16 ahead to COP30 in Belem, Brazil, for nature-related action and climate-nature nexus. This will be a session co-hosted by Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), Climate Champions, and NatureFinance.
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- Integrating action to tackle the interconnected biodiversity and water crises
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Location: Big Room
When: - World Economic Forum presents an event focused on exploring the steps businesses, policymakers and financial institutions can take to shift to sustainably using and conserving water resources, in order to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030.
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- Climate Resilient Protected and Conserved Areas (PCAs) for a Positive Future for Nature and People
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Location: Small Room
When: - A Climate Resilient Future Must Include Climate Resilient Protected and Conserved Areas
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- Special Event: NPI Evening Reception (registration only): Explaining Nature Positive
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Location: Big Room
When: - Join the co-authors of the upcoming book 'Becoming Nature Positive: The Journey So Far' along with special guests at a Reception on 25th Oct, 17:30 to 19:30, Nature Positive Pavilion
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- Developing a New Currency for Nature – the Verifiable Nature Unit: Going fast and far, together!
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Location: Small Room
When: - To value nature and reward its management, we need a holistic mechanism that enables reliable outcomes-based transactions at scale, turning conservation and restoration into a formal and competitive economic activity. A roundtable led by African Parks.
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- Opportunity or challenge? How can digitalization transform biodiversity reporting?
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Location: Big Room
When: - Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the world’s leading impact reporting standard setter, presents a session considering the role for digitalization. Digitalization has already transformed many disciplines. What effect is it likely to have on biodiversity reporting? This session will review challenges and opportunities in global digital biodiversity reporting.
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- Showcasing how different stakeholder groups are implementing innovative approaches to deliver the nature-positive mission, discussion on the key challenges that remain and how collaboration between diverse actors can overcome them. An interactive session led by BirdLife International.
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- The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) presents a side event that will delve into innovative strategies and best practices for incorporating biodiversity into urban settings and corporate landscapes, utilizing a comprehensive approach that involves both government and society. This gathering will unite urban planners, corporate executives, environmental specialists, and policymakers to highlight successful case studies, address challenges, and pinpoint practical solutions for promoting biodiversity within constructed environments.
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- A session led by the World Benchmarking Alliance focused on why and how should businesses implement human rights due diligence with an environmental lens.
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- Responsible Mining and Sustainable Use of Critical Energy Transition Minerals in the Three Tropical Forest Basins
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Location: Big Room
When: - Meeting the rising global demand for critical minerals sustainably requires a concerted effort focused on several key strategies. Collaboration among multi-stakeholders is essential to establish secure and sustainable supply chains for these minerals. Event presented by the World Resources Institute (WRI).
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- "Nature needs us, we need nature. We are part of nature; together we sustain life." Come and discover this amazing immersive experience as presented by the Accountability Accelerator, part of the Global Commons Alliance. Step into a space transformed into a multi-climate forest, tech and tools about resources and equity are seamlessly integrated into the environment like trees.
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- Exploring the potential of a nature-positive bioeconomy to address climate and nature crises by mobilizing global finance, fostering sustainable development, and supporting biodiversity goals, particularly in nature-rich countries.
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- Scaling Regenerative Agriculture in Brazil: a new asset class to make investment in resilience an asset
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Location: Big Room
When: - A new way to turn investment in regenerative agriculture and supply chain resilience into a business asset. Discussing the case of Brazil. A session led by the Landbanking Group.
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- SPECIAL EVENT: Evening Reception – Delivering improvements to ecosystem integrity and condition through nature positive development and private sector engagement
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Location: Big Room
When: - Co-hosted by WCS and the Ecosystem Condition Protocol interim secretariat, the event will provide an overview of initiatives, tools, and metrics, fostering collaboration to align scientific measures with private sector strategies and connecting to the NPI's work around a minimum viable set of metrics for nature.
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- Open Mic: Expressing Reimagined Futures
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- This event will demonstrate how the targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework can be broken down to a level that the private sector can operationalise in order to accelerate a transition to a nature-positive economy.
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- Fireside Chat: Collective Reflection
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- World Climate Foundation (WCF) presents this event to hear how a circular economy approach can drive sustainability in business
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- Reimagining Conservation: Towards a Flourishing Future – Bearing Witness: Intentionally Listening to Indigenous and Local Leaders
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Location: Big Room
When: - Bearing Witness: Intentionally Listening to Indigenous and Local Leaders.
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- Government and Business Roundtable: Integrating the roles and responsibilities of business and finance in NBSAPs for effective implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)
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Location: Small Room
When: - Sharing experiences and insights to strengthen government-business engagement for a nature-positive economy by 2030. A roundtable discussion led by Business for Nature.
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- Global roadmap for a nature-positive economy: An economic and financial reform agenda to meet climate and nature goals
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Location: Big Room
When: - Global Roadmap for a Nature-Positive Economy: Transforming the international financial architecture to facilitate a transition to a nature-positive economy.
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- Navigating chaos & biodiversity loss by cultivating peace: Pathways to living in harmony with nature.
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- Achieving nature positive: how can we scale pivotal business model and financial system transformations?
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Location: Small Room
When: - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership – CISL presents a Scaling up nature positive: the role of new business models and financial innovation
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- Cities & regions: Collaborating & capturing contributions towards a nature positive future
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Location: Big Room
When: - Local Governments for Sustainability - ICLEI presents a panel discussion among city & region representatives & experts on the importance & challenges of biodiversity metrics & target setting at the urban & territorial scales to measure cities’ & regions’ contributions towards nature positive goals.
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- Global Commons Alliance discuss in small groups how your actions can feed into the transition pathways for bringing us back in the earth system boundaries of a safe and just planet.
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- Leaving no-one behind: How Just transition and nature-positive impacts intersect
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Location: Big Room
When: - Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the world’s leading impact reporting standard setter, presents a multi-stakeholder panel discussion on achieving an inclusive and equitable transition to a nature-positive economy.
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- Blue Success – How Ocean Action is Delivering for the Global Biodiversity Framework
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Location: Small Room
When: - The Nature Conservancy highlights the ocean's vital role in providing sustenance, employment, and protection for billions of individuals worldwide. This event showcases three exemplary case studies where ocean conservation efforts have effectively contributed to the objectives of the Global Biodiversity Framework.
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- The LandMark Mapping Platform: New Data and Tools for Securing Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ Rights and Meeting Global Biodiversity Targets
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Location: Big Room
When: - World Resources Institute and International Land Coalition present Securing Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ traditional rights is key to conserving biodiversity - the newly updated LandMark mapping platform supports efforts toward meeting these critical objectives.
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- Financial Mechanisms for Conservation: Opportunities and Advances for Indigenous Peoples and Communities in Bolivia, Brazil, and Ecuador
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Location: Big Room
When: - Join us for an interactive learning session on the progress of financial mechanisms supporting conservation efforts in Indigenous Peoples' territories and local communities. This session will highlight achievements and explore future opportunities in Bolivia, Brazil, and Ecuador.
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- SPECIAL EVENT: Evening reception – Accelerating Nature Action: Policies that drive effective business action on nature
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Location: Big Room
When: - Join us for the “Accelerating Nature Action” reception, hosted by WBCSD, Business for Nature, the World Economic Forum, Capitals Coalition, CDP, CISL and the World Benchmarking Alliance.
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- World Climate Foundation (WCF) presents this event
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- This NPI session will focus on ensuring state of nature metrics draw on practical and accessible data to enable universal reporting for corporates and financial institutions, and how they can draw on this data for monitoring and reporting impacts on the state of nature.
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- Embedding nature positive state of nature metrics in existing frameworks, guidance, standards: The current metrics landscape
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Location: Big Room
When: - This NPI session will focus on the current landscape of relevant frameworks, guidance and standards, and explore how a standardized set of state of nature metrics will enable improved reporting for companies and financial institutions.
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- How Aquatic Foods can Deliver Action for the Global Biodiversity Framework
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Location: Small Room
When: - A panel discussion led by the Natural Conservancy.
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- WWF invites you to discuss the NBSAP Tracker results, see how countries compare, hear the reactions from government and other stakeholders, and learn about the methodology of this online tool.
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- EY presents the nature positive metrics guide businesses and governments towards biodiversity, ecosystem recovery, and sustainable development, reducing environmental impact and promoting green practices.
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- Event organized by the Key Biodiversity Areas Secretariat in collaboration with Bezos Earth Fund.
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- Café Hope: How nurturing hope leads to tangible actions in the midst of overwhelming biodiversity loss and climate challenges
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Location: Small Room
When: - Hope motivates, inspires, grounds us in purpose and action. Meet experts from around the world who share why they have hope for our Earth and why you should, too
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- Accelerating alignment of finance with the GBF: recent developments and opportunities
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Location: Big Room
When: - This event will bring together a number of leading organizations to present emerging frameworks, datasets and tools that support this transition. Presented by Nature Finance.
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- (Invite Only) Nature Positive Metrics: Developing marine environment metrics
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Location: Small Room
When: - This NPI invite only session will explore with a small group the best way to create a metrics shortlist for the marine environment given current data limitations, and also identify how the Nature Positive State of Nature metrics framework may need to be adapted for the marine realm.
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- Discussion on ecological and cultural relationship and community led agroecology through local rice genetic resources
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Location: Big Room
When: - Ethnobotany of local rice diversity: Culture, Climate and Coexistence. A discussion led by the Bangladesh Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and the Global Alliance for the Future of Food.
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- (Invite only) Nature Positive Metrics: Iterating freshwater metrics shortlists
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Location: Small Room
When: - This NPI invite only session will explore with a small group the best way to create a metrics shortlist for freshwater environments given current data limitations, and also identify how the Nature Positive State of Nature metrics framework may need to be adapted for the freshwater realm
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- Time to mobilize and transform key sectors for biodiversity: A call to action
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Location: Big Room
When: - COP16 presents a key opportunity to mobilize and enable key sectors to assume their share of responsibility and take bold, transformative action. CBD Parties should prioritize biodiversity mainstreaming and implement a set of specific and immediate actions to mobilize and transform key sectors for biodiversity.
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- (Invite Only) Nature Positive Metrics: Technical feedback on terrestrial metrics
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Location: Small Room
When: - This invite only session by the Nature Positive Initiative will explore the draft state of nature metrics shortlists for terrestrial environments, focusing in on any remaining challenges.
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- (Invite Only) Breakfast with the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People
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Location: Big Room
When: - Lessons learned to collectively reaching the 30 x 30 target.
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- The Nature Conservancy presents that art can vividly illustrate the beauty and fragility of our natural world. Join this celebration of the culture and conservation significance of Colombia’s Orinoquia region, featuring images from photojournalist Federico Rios.
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- Ready to play NatureFinance's much anticipated Nature Monopoly game at the Nature Positive Pavilion?
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- Indigenous contributions to the biodiversity and climate protection: governance tools in Brazil and Colombia to manage territories
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Location: Small Room
When: - The Nature Conservancy presents "Indigenous Contributions to Biodiversity and Climate Protection: Governance Tools in Brazil and Colombia for Effective Territory Management."
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- Global Environmental Institute and a conglomerate of partners presents the OECM Forum at COP16. A Whole of Society Approach Accelerates the Implementation of the GBF: 30x30 Target, OECMs and Local Community Cooperation Action Come and share your experience!
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- Synergizing Knowledge and Practices: The role of Human Rights-Based Approach for Biodiversity and Climate Action
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Location: Big Room
When: - Sharing perspectives that emerged from inclusive multi-actor dialogues for advancing the understanding of the role of a human rights-based approach for biodiversity and climate action.
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- Come hear the story from Sol de Janeiro on how they are identifying risks, integrating nature positive ambitions in their mission, and taking positive action in Brazil to help restore the environment.
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- Technology and Corporate Nature Action: Strengthening Accountability in the Global South
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Location: Small Room
When: - Global Commons Alliance presents "Technology and Corporate Nature Action: Empowering Change Through Accountability Tools for Growth and Equity in Africa, Indonesia, and Latin America".
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- The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) emphasizes that to meet the objectives of the Global Biodiversity Framework, significant and immediate efforts are required from the private sector to mitigate threats to biodiversity. However, it is equally important that these contributions are both measurable and verifiable. How do we strike a balance between these imperatives?
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- WWF presents a recent review of NBSAPs, which revealed something is missing. A lack of defined plans to include education and involve key groups in implementation. Let’s put them both back in - join us to hear how!
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- Inspiring Investments: Private Sector Contributions to Nature-Based Solutions
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Location: Big Room
When: - World Resources Institute - WRI presents scaling private capital for NBS: actionable and illustrative examples to increase NbS investment and deliver concrete impacts on people, nature, and climate.
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- Event highlights fisheries elements of GBF Targets 5, 9, and 10 with examples from the UK, Kenya, and spotlighting global initiatives such as the 100% Alliance under the Ocean Panel. Presented by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
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- Panel with presentations and discussions for advancing the recognition of Indigenous Peoples' and local communities' rights in area-based conservation: experiences on inclusive dialogues and policy trainings addressing opportunities and barriers.
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- Join the Nature Positive Initiative for an aperitif to celebrate the opening day at the Pavilion. Our pavilion will host around 160 events over 12 days - we look forward to welcoming you.
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- Innovations in Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Nature-Positive Infrastructure
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Location: Big Room
When: - Countries need their infrastructure to deliver biodiversity gains – not degradation – ensuring a safe future for people and the planet. Mainstreaming biodiversity is the key - but is it feasible? Inspiring cases say yes! Session led by the Infrastructure and Nature Coalition.
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- Join A Rocha International to find out about transformative experiential environmental education from around the world which shows that the development of an innate “green muscle memory" enables leaners to instinctively make environmentally friendly choices.
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- From Funding to Financing Nature: a conversation about the distinction between funding nature and financing it, with a focus on the process designs to make best use of financing approaches. A session led by Yale School of Environment.
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- Tackling biodiversity and climate change together: a review of the risks, opportunities, and solutions
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Location: Big Room
When: - The Nature Conservancy presents a panel discussion followed by a Q&A bringing representatives from the scientific community, policymaking and business sectors together to discuss solutions to tackling the biodiversity and climate crises.
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- Umbrellas, Keystones, and Flagships: Harnessing the Power of Big Cats to Halt and Reverse Biodiversity Loss by 2030
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Location: Small Room
When: - Learn how protecting big cats and their landscapes can achieve measurable progress on the GBF and improve well-being for people.
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- Join us for a unique intergenerational dialogue where youth, elders, and conservation leaders will explore how we can work together to build a sustainable future. The event will begin with a symbolic weaving ceremony, representing the interconnection of generations and nature, followed by an open discussion on overcoming barriers and fostering collaboration. Together, we’ll reflect, share, and contribute to a collective tapestry that symbolizes our shared vision for a thriving planet. Let’s weave the future together!
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- Faiths for biodiversity: Faith actors at the forefront of GBF Implementation
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Location: Big Room
When: - A global analysis of faith-led efforts in the implementation of the GBF.
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- Can we have it all? Approaches to equitable and inclusive nature-based solutions aiming for climate resilience, gender equality and a nature-positive future
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Location: Big Room
When: - Global Affairs Canada (Government of Canada) presents realizing multiple benefits through inclusive nature-based solutions/ecosystem approaches – Canada’s experience through the Partnering for Climate initiative
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- Les connaissances locales favorisent au mieux les techniques de résilience et adaptations aux changements climatiques
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- To mitigate nature-related risks and promote long-term sustainability, boards of financial institutions need to understand how nature can translate to material risks and opportunities. A panel discussion led by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative in collaboration with Deloitte.