Meeting events

​As scrutiny increases around carbon credit quality, additionality remains a central and evolving integrity principle within the voluntary carbon market in evaluating nature-based solutions. This session will explore how shifts in the interpretation and application of additionality can unlock greater recognition and investment in REDD+ and High Forest, Low Deforestation (HFLD) contexts.

​Speakers will examine how project developers, investors, and standard setters are strengthening and adapting their approaches to additionality, particularly in the context of REDD+ and jurisdictional programs, and highlight new frameworks and tools that help demonstrate impact in areas with strong existing protections. The session will also share insights from emerging nature stewardship initiatives like HIFOR, that can enhance market access for HFLD regions and support high-integrity investment in forests and nature.

Join carbon finance leaders for a collaborative workshop on managing multi-stakeholder risks in nature-based carbon programs. Explore how differing risk perceptions impact projects, share strategies for equitable risk-sharing with smallholder farmers, and learn proven approaches to building resilient, high-quality projects.

This is an invitation-only event. What incentives are needed to scale business demand for carbon credits? This session will explore what signals and safeguards companies need to confidently purchase high-integrity carbon credits at scale.

Permanence is one of the toughest challenges in the voluntary carbon market. Climate impacts like wildfires and drought can erase carbon gains long before the credits expire. This session explores how we can rethink permanence by shifting from static buffers to active risk management and aiming for 1,000 years of climate impact. Join us to discuss current challenges, the best of existing models, and a bold new path forward.

As the climate and biodiversity crises intensify, nature must move from the sidelines to the heart of global climate action. With COP30 on the horizon, this session will explore how we can elevate nature in policy, finance, and business: 

• How can we unlock a new era for collaboration on climate and nature and make a compelling case for investment? 
• How can we best mobilise the private sector in supporting biodiversity conservation efforts?  
• What is needed to enhance reporting on nature-related risks and opportunities? 

Following the launch of TNFD’s ‘Asking Better Questions on Nature’ guide for board directors at Ecosperity Week in Singapore, which focuses on 12 key questions for board directors to ask company executives, and the sort of analysis they should expect to see from their organisations to support those discussions, this event at London Climate Action Week will continue the conversation.

The guide, produced in collaboration with Chapter Zero, Competent Boards, Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI) and Green Finance Institute, is designed to help senior executives across business and finance surface critical insights about nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities to inform their decision making.

Speakers will delve into the core aims of the guide and how boards and directors can use it as a resource in their risk management strategy, all leading towards being able to efficiently identify the decision-useful information needed to bring nature-related considerations into the company’s governance, strategy, risk management and capital allocation decision making.

We invite board members, non-executive directors, legal counsel and other senior and C-suite members to register for this event.

The session will include a short presentation and panel discussion, followed by discussion and breakouts with attendees. A light breakfast and coffee/tea will be served.

Speakers to be announced soon.

To register, please email Charlie Dixon at charlie.dixon@gfi.green

In association with the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI), Lloyds Banking Group is hosting a roundtable to discuss the role of private finance in supporting the delivery of the UK’s National Biodiversity Strategy & Action Plan (NBSAP). The session will be a private event convening SMI Financial Services Taskforce member banks alongside relevant public sector bodies & NGOs to identify potential overlaps between NDCs and NBSAPs and drive public / private sector engagement on NBSAPs.

Nature is increasingly being recognised as a material issue for business.

From water availability and land degradation to evolving disclosure requirements like Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the ways in which companies depend on natural systems are becoming more visible. These are not just environmental issues; they have real implications for supply chains, risk exposure and corporate reporting.

Join Barclays, Aviva and Environment Bank for a high-level breakfast discussion during London Climate Action Week. This session will explore how companies are starting to treat nature as essential infrastructure, and how nature-related investments are beginning to play a role in supporting resilience, compliance and long-term value.

We will examine how businesses are responding to emerging frameworks such as TNFD and Science Based Targets Network (SBTN), and what practical steps leaders can take today to address nature-related risks and opportunities.

Panellists will share insights on:

· How nature-related risks and dependencies are influencing operational and financial decision-making

· The shift from traditional CSR towards science-based approaches to nature investment

· How verified ecological data can support TNFD, CSRD and SBTN-aligned reporting

· What credible, forward-looking business action on nature looks like, and why timing matters

Industry-leading panellists include:

– Naomi Kerbel (Host)
A communications expert with deep experience in broadcast, including Bloomberg, Sky News and CNBC.

– Vicky McAllister (Sustainability Director, Barclays)
Vicky has an extensive career in finance and sustainability, with a specific focus on nature. In her current role as Director of Nature Strategy and Policy at Barclays, she leads work on nature risk and impact management as well as working closely with Sustainable Finance colleagues to determine how Barclays can participate in the growing nature finance agenda and engage clients on this topic.

She has over twenty years’ corporate sustainability experience, twelve of which have been at Barclays working on climate change, human rights, client due diligence and reputation risk. She represents Barclays at industry groups and events such as the Sustainable Markets Initiative Financial Services Taskforce and COP16. Prior to joining, Vicky spent ten years working in sustainability consulting and research across a variety of different industry sectors and has a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Biology.

– Thomas Viegas (Group Nature Lead, Aviva)
An expert in economics, finance, and policy with extensive experience at the Bank of England, HM Treasury, TNFD, and shaping UK and global macro-financial policy at Aviva.

– Emma Toovey (Chief Land & Nature Officer, Environment Bank)
Instrumental in developing the Biodiversity Net Gain policy and the voluntary biodiversity market product, Nature Shares, in England.

This breakfast event is aimed at senior-level business leaders. While it is open to all interested in nature alignment for businesses, we may need to decline registrations from those outside these parameters if capacity is reached.

Suzano, Rainforest Alliance, Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy and the World Resources Institute (WRI-Brasil) are hosting an exclusive, high-level networking reception during London Climate Week.

This invitation-only event will bring together a select group of senior leaders from the public and private sectors who are at the forefront of action for climate, nature, and people.

As part of London Climate Week, Rainforest Trust UK will be holding an evening event to celebrate World Rainforest Day and discuss “Inspiring Approaches for Protecting Rainforests for Species, People and Our Planet”. There will be a special musical performance by Venezuelan folk singer/songwriter Luzmira Zerpa.

Special guests: Barrister for the Earth, Monica Feria-Tinta, who will talk about using the law to defend the Rights of Nature and address key drivers of climate change. As well as Harvey Locke, a recognised global leader in the Nature Needs Half movement, and advocate for large landscape conservation and wilderness corridors.

While it’s not a rainforest, our event will be taking place outside, on the banks of Regent’s Canal, at the Camley Street Natural Park which is a haven for plants and wildlife. The woodland, grassland and wetland habitats provide a home for mallards, coots, kingfishers, herons, amphibians and insects, not to mention a rich variety of plant life and rare fungi.

​Both Indigenous Peoples and local communities are essential partners in the voluntary carbon market and in addressing the global climate crisis. Ensuring that carbon markets respect, protect, and promote the rights, interests, and self-determined priorities of these communities is vital. As it is only by putting communities’ interests at their heart that the carbon markets can achieve integrity and fulfil their potential long-term positive impacts for people and planet.

​In recognition of this, the Integrity Council has led a two-year global initiative to co-develop a meaningful framework for engagement through consultations, workshops, and dialogue with leaders from organisations representing Indigenous Peoples as well as local communities

​Announced at COP28, the self-led Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Engagement Forum is the central outcome of this process. The Forum, which convened for the first time in July 2024, is led by Indigenous Co-Chairs Onel Masardule and Diel Mochire Mwenge, with support from the Integrity Council Secretariat.

​This session will provide a preview of the Forum’s strategic direction ahead of its formal launch later this year and offers an opportunity for discussion with civil society, NGOs, Indigenous Peoples organisations, and policy stakeholders.

​Speakers

• ​Onel Masardule – Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Engagement Forum

• ​Stella Napanu, Africa Regional Representative, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Engagement Forum

• ​Rupert Quinlan – Associate Director for Indigenous Peoples and local communities

​This event is a unique opportunity to explore how the Forum seeks to shape a high-integrity voluntary carbon market ensuring the rights, priorities, and voices of the communities it seeks to serve are embedded in its future.

​It will take place in the Phoenix space at Work.Life St Cross Street.