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- 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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- The United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) is set to host a panel discussion that will delve into the diverse methods by which financial institutions can make meaningful contributions to our collective societal objectives.
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- A global analysis of faith-led efforts in the implementation of the GBF.
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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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- Event highlights fisheries elements of GBF Targets 5, 9, and 10 with examples from Mexico, Kenya, and Alaska. Enjoy talks, a seaweed tasting, and fun quizzes for on biodiversity and sustainability. Presented by 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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- Putting people and education (back) in NBSAPs!
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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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- 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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- 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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- Non-State Actor Action Forum on OECMs
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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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- From Opportunity to Benefit: Examples of shellfish reef restoration from around the Globe delivering on GBF Target 2
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- The Nature Conservancy presents government leaders from around the globe share successes and lessons from restoring shellfish reefs through innovation, partnerships, and policy to meet their national biodiversity, resilience, and climate commitments.
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- 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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- Nature Monopoly – GAME
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- Ready to play NatureFinance's much anticipated Nature Monopoly game at the Nature Positive Pavilion?
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- Art for Social Justice
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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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- World Wildlife Fund (WWF) presents how to achieve the GBF, Parties should prioritize mainstreaming biodiversity in key sectors and in all parts of governments as well as immediate and specific actions for transformative action on mainstreaming.
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- (Invite Only) Nature Positive Metrics: Iterating terrestrial and freshwater metrics shortlists
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- This invite only session by the Nature Positive Initiative will explore the draft state of nature metrics shortlists for terrestrial and freshwater environments, focusing in on any remaining challenges.
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- To achieve the GBF, Parties should prioritize mainstreaming biodiversity in key sectors and in all parts of governments as well as immediate and specific actions for transformative action on mainstreaming. Join WWF and partners here.
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- 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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- Finance: Accelerating alignment of finance with the GBF: recent developments and opportunities
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- This event will bring together a number of leading organizations to present emerging frameworks, datasets and tools that support this transition.
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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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- Presentation and Discussion of NBSAP Assessment Tool
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- WWF invites you to discuss the NBSAP assessment results, see how countries compare, hear the reaction from governments and other stakeholders, and learn about the methodology of this online tool.
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- 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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- Accelerating Blended Finance for Emerging Markets
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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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- Accelerating Nature Action
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- The World Business Council for Sustainable Development presents a reception to Accelerating Nature Action
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- Pew Charitable Trusts presents an interactive learning session on advances in financial mechanisms for local communities and Indigenous Peoples’ territories and conservation areas: recognizing progress and future opportunities in Bolivia, Brazil, and Ecuador.
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- 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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- World Resources Institute - WRI presents 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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- 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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- 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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- Cities & regions: Collaborating & capturing contributions towards a nature positive future
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- 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 Roadmap for a Nature-Positive Economy: Transforming the international financial architecture to facilitate a transition to a nature-positive economy.
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- Achieving nature positive: how can we scale pivotal business model and financial system transformations?
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- 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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- IUCN CEESP and partners invite you to critically examine current conservation models and explore innovative, justice-centered alternatives that offer new pathways for planetary protection.
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- 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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- IUCN CEESP and partners invite us to examine the role of financial and power dynamics in conservation and propose equitable strategies for resource distribution.
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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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- Join Synchronicity Earth, IUCN CEESP and partners as we promote community-driven, culturally sensitive conservation strategies that integrate traditional knowledge and co-management practices.
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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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- Perennial land exhibition (immersive experience)
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- Global Commons Alliance presents a perennial land exhibition offering an immersive experience.
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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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- Special Event: Perennial Land Immersive Experience
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- Come and discover this amazing immersive experience. 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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- World Resources Institute - WRI presents despite the substantial progress has been made since COP15, considerable gaps in biodiversity finance and actions persists – PBF aims to integrate biodiversity into investment decision-making and mobilize multi-stakeholder actions to achieve GBF targets.
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- From Cali to Belem
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- This will be a session led by the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures. More details to come.
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- Developing a New Currency for Nature – the Verifiable Nature Unit: Going fast and far, together!
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- 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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- Monsieur Periné opens this exciting reception with music. Driving a global movement for community-led conservation: Government partners and stakeholders learn from real-world examples in Papua New Guinea, Tunisia, Vietnam, Tanzania, and Congo, integrating land and ocean efforts into national climate and nature strategies.
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- 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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- 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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- (Invite Only) Venture Beyond: Why Aligning Finance, Policy, and Innovation Drives Nature Positive Investment
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- 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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- 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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- Biodiversity baselines to policy: exploring universities' contributions to a Nature Positive future. A session led by Nature Positive Universities.
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Cup of Courage to Kickstart Business & Finance day
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- WBA presents this event bringing together business, finance, next-generation, Indigenous, local community and political leaders to catalyze ambition and build confidence in having the bold discussions needed to re-think our relationships with nature and take brave action.
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- 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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- WEF presents the event blueprint for a Nature-Positive and Plastic Pollution Free Future
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- 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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- 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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- Join this session, led by Nature for Business, 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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- 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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- Boosting food system transformation at COP16
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- Transforming food systems to reverse biodiversity loss; how are countries including the approach in the NBSAP update process?
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- 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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- The Nature Conservancy presents a panel that explores Colombia’s Orinoquía region as a case study of a landscape-scale approach to leveraging place-based and supply-chain strategies to achieve effective, durable conservation in a global biodiversity hotspot.
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- Meet Nature Positive leaders
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- 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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- Pew Charitable Trusts presents the biologically-rich Eastern Tropical Pacific is 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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- Building Towards Policy Coherence: How biodiversity regulation can be a shared goal amongst stakeholders?
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- 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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- Panel discussion led by Pew Charitable Trusts.
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- Nature Positive Finance and investment—a paradigm that places nature at the heart of financial decision-making
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- WWF will present a compelling case for Nature Positive Finance and investment—a paradigm that places nature at the heart of financial decision-making.
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- 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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- Designing What’s Needed: Accelerating Nature-Based Carbon Solutions in Africa for Scalable Impact
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- 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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- 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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- A panel discussion led by Campaign For Nature.
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- Using Metrics to Measure Impact and Drive Action
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- World Climate Foundation (WCF) presents this event to hear insights on the importance of metrics for business in measuring conservation and restoration efforts
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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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- Responsible Mining and Sustainable Use of Critical Energy Transition Minerals in the Three Tropical Forest Basins
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- World Resources Institute - WRI presents the three major tropical forest basins are crucial for biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration and the rising critical minerals demand. Transition of the mining sector requires efforts on responsible mining practices, circular economy initiatives, and technological innovations.
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- 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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- 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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- The road to Nature Positive
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- The World Business Council for Sustainable Development presents The road to Nature Positive reception.
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- WWF, the CBD Secretariat and the World Economic Forum’s Friends of Ocean Action will host this even focused on scaling integrated and innovative ocean solutions that deliver biodiversity, climate and sustainable development co-benefits.
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- Unlocking Opportunities in the Blue Economy
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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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- (Invite Only) Operationalising state of nature metrics within existing frameworks, guidance and standards
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- This invite only session by NPI will be a discussion among frameworks, guidance and standard setting organisations to explore the best approach for piloting nature positive state of nature metrics 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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- (Invite Only) Operationalising state of nature metrics for businesses and financial institutions
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- 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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- Debt for Nature Coalition
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- Pew Charitable Trusts invite us to join for the global launch of the Debt for Nature Coalition
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- The Lovejoy Prize Award Ceremony
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- Honoring the legacy of Dr. Lovejoy, a tireless advocate for nature and biodiversity, the Lovejoy Prize will recognize two exceptional individuals advancing breakthroughs in the conservation of the Amazon.
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- 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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- Incentivising and promoting a race to the top: a focus on corporates and complex supply chains
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- This NPI session will be a panel discussion focusing on how the set of state of nature metrics can help buyers monitor and track the impact of their supply chains.
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- [Invite only] The role of nature in transition plans
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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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- The Road to COP30: creating an enabling policy environment to unlock further landscape-level action
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Creating new partnerships to reform Environmentally Harmful Subsidies (EHS) and implement GBF Target 18
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- 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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- 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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- Science Based Targets Network - SBTN presents how companies can use SBTN’s technical guidance to measure and address their materials impacts on nature, the outcomes of a year-long validation pilot, and the Accountability Accelerator plans to validate targets.
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- Conservation Initiative gives an inspiring story about the vast ecological significance of the Eastern Himalayan region – a single connected ecosystem and the most densely populated biodiversity hotspot in the world.
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- From Global Goals to Local Action – Setting Science-Based Targets for Nature Positive Cities
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- Science Based Targets Network - SBTN presents a 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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- World Climate Foundation (WCF) presents this event ro interact with sector leaders to discuss how innovative technologies and community-led initiatives can drive transformative change towards a nature positive future
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- 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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- The Nature Conservancy proudly presents "Our Future Landscapes: Achieving Systemic Change at Scale".
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- Building momentum for youth priorities toward 30×30 and BBNJ ratification, a nature positive path to UNOC3
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- Pew Charitable Trusts presents a roundtable discussion uplifting youth priorities in advancing 30x30 and BBNJ outlining strategies to partner government ministers and young ocean advocates towards action
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- Gabon: Implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity through conservation finance
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- The Nature Conservancy, in collaboration with the Gabon Biodiversity Team, is poised to showcase the strides made in conservation finance and the integration of freshwater ecosystems into the 30x30 initiative, highlighting Gabon as a pioneering nation in these efforts.
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- Indigenous Pacific Island nature-based solutions for biodiversity, resilience and wellbeing
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- The Nature Conservancy presents the GBF and inland waters: From targets to implementation
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- Comparing Mechanisms and Metrics for the Conservation of Continental Waters with a Focus on South America
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- 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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- A session led by African Natural Capital Alliance.
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- Nature Monopoly – GAME
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- NatureFinance and KPMG bring you the Nature Monopoly Game. Don't miss it!
Nature Positive Pavilion Schedule Coming Soon.