Nature Finance events

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.

Bringing together leaders in finance, climate tech, research and sustainability, this event will explore corporate sentiment and building confidence in Carbon Markets.

The event will open with an informative keynote presentation from Oxford Net Zero, followed by a panel of experts from different perspectives as they explore key trends (e.g. removals vs avoidance, contribution vs compensation), opportunities and what is needed to drive institutional confidence and impact.

The programme will be followed by networking drinks, and an opportunity for guests to continue to explore these themes with other participants.

Oxford Net Zero will be gathering insights from event participants through questionnaire surveys for research impact. The research will examine whether and how businesses are investing into carbon credits, and how they are framing their investments with respect to their mitigation targets. Insights from participants will inform the design of policies and corporate standards.

Registration is essential and subject to acceptance.

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.

This panel brings together leading voices from incubators and accelerators that specialize in designing, launching and scaling market-based natural climate solution (NCS) projects. With a focus on unlocking early-stage innovation and investment, the session will explore how these platforms help de-risk and operationalize projects that deliver climate, biodiversity, and community outcomes. Panelists will share insights into their unique niches, the types of projects they support, and how they address critical gaps in the NCS market—such as access to seed funding, technical assistance, and investor-readiness. The discussion will also examine common challenges faced by project developers, how accelerators are positioned to help overcome them, and how to scale-up accelerators and reduce reliance on grant funding in order to increase impact.

Panelists:
Doug Hull – Senior Associate Director, Finance Earth
Lauren Steensma – Senior Associate, Terranomics
Claire Cockett – Nature-based Solutions Accelerator lead, WWF-UK
William Baldwin – Cantello – Director of Nature-based Solutions, WWF-UK
Christina Van Winkle – Forest Impact Accelerator lead, BirdLife International

Agenda
Overview: The evolving role of accelerators in the NCS ecosystem
Case studies from featured accelerators
Interactive panel discussion:
– Finance and technical support needs at different stages of NCS project development
– How investors and off-takers can engage early to shape investable pipelines
– Designing and running accelerator programmes to meet these needs
– Options to scale-up accelerators (including the role of repayable finance)
– Role of investors and off-takers in shaping project development through early engagement Live audience Q&A

Who Should Attend:
Impact investors, carbon credit off-takers, grant funders, NBS project developers, and other accelerators/incubators.

​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.

Join The Road to Belem, a high-level event that brings together climate ventures from Latin America and Africa with global investors and system enablers. Designed to surface scalable solutions in Nature, Agriculture, Food, and Energy, the event will spotlight ventures and ecosystem actors at the forefront of climate innovation.

The agenda features pitch presentations from investment-ready startups, alongside strategic insights from accelerators, insurers, and institutional platforms working to unlock climate finance in emerging markets. Curated by the Climate Champions Team through the Regional Platforms for Climate Projects (RPCP) initiative, this session serves as a milestone on the path to COP30 — advancing capital mobilization for high-impact, locally driven solutions.

Lobelia, Pegasys and Mott MacDonald are co-hosting an event during LCAW, focused on how finance, technology, and data can help close the investment gap in climate resilience. We’re bringing together asset managers, impact investors, insurers, financial institutions, corporations, DFIs, and policymakers for a practical and forward-looking conversation.

As climate and nature-related risks intensify, there’s an urgent need for financial systems to adapt – not just to protect portfolios, but to drive a broader shift toward a resilient, sustainable future. Extreme weather, water stress, food insecurity, and biodiversity loss are already disrupting infrastructure, markets and supply chains globally. Integrating climate intelligence to inform decisions about where, in what, and with whom to invest, can help to align diverse interests, minimise risk exposure and optimise returns for investors, communities, and natural environments.

This 2-panel session will explore how systems thinking and climate intelligence can support smarter investment decisions. We’ll look at how finance can move from reactive risk management to proactive investment in adaptation, resilience, and nature-based solutions – areas offering long-term value but still largely underfunded.

Agenda (panelists to be announced shortly):
– Panel 1: Financing Resilience across Portfolios, Infrastructure and Value Chains (45min)
– Networking Session (25min)
– Panel 2: Nature-Positive finance: De-risking investment in agriculture, nature-based solutions, and ecosystem resilience (45min)
– Networking Session (55min)

For further details or to register your interest, please contact on lcaw@lobelia.earth

A flagship event of London Climate Action Week, the De-Risking Summit 2025 will explore how we can collectively address the climate driven insurability challenge and catalyse insurance for climate action.

The insurance industry stands at a pivotal moment as climate change accelerates more extreme weather events globally. The urgency to adapt and protect, as well as de-risk a just, resilient transition, intensifies.

The Summit, in its second year, will bring together key stakeholders for discussion, thought leadership, networking and high-level announcements.

Join us as we master the challenge and opportunity of insurability.

Join Global Canopy to find out how investigative journalists and researchers use open access Forest 500 data to home in on the actors in the deforestation economy. This skillshare webinar will explore the Forest 500 screening tool that allows users to search the deforestation exposure risk of the most influential corporations and financial institutions by name, jurisdiction, commodity type and industry sector.

Robert Soutar of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism will moderate an expert panel of journalists and researchers who use data to inform the global debate on deforestation. Forest 500 and Tracking Lead, Emma Thomson, will answer questions on the methodology used. The discussion will be followed by a 20 minute Q&A session.

This congress aims to consolidate the process of coordination and cooperation between indigenous peoples and local communities of the world’s forest basins (Amazon, Congo, and Borneo-Mekong-Southeast Asia, Meso-America), with the goal of creating a global coalition to support the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030).

The integration of climate and biodiversity issues will be encouraged, taking into account the rights and contributions of our peoples, who are often treated separately in international agreements. This coalition will act as an influential force within international bodies, highlighting the relevance of Meso-America and other forest basins in the global context.

Expected Results