Webinar events

Despite announcements at the COP29 meeting to triple climate finance for developing nations, the current annual flow of $850 billion remains significantly below the $2.4 trillion required by 2030 to meet climate targets. Developing countries, often the most vulnerable to climate impacts, face substantial barriers, including inadequate regulatory frameworks, perceived investment risks, and limited institutional knowledge. These challenges are compounded by insufficient private sector participation, underdeveloped carbon markets, and fragmented global collaboration, underscoring the need for actionable and inclusive solutions. The UNFCCC has highlighted the importance of governments and other key stakeholders to better understand the financial needs of developing countries and mobilising financial resources appropriately to support adaptation and mitigation efforts.

Financial institutions, whilst committed to supporting sustainable finance, are looking for solutions to create a win-win situation for all stakeholders. This involves addressing key challenges around governance, data management, reporting standards and compliance. Leveraging climate data through advanced ESG metrics and standardised reporting tools are also key to improving investment decision-making. Blended finance models, integrating public and private capital, have yielded promising results in terms of de-risking green investments and unlocking funding for high-impact projects.

This year’s conference will bring together policy makers, representatives from investment banks, central banks, analysts and other experts to analyse global and regional developments in sustainable finance and its future. We will examine unique advancements and persistent gaps in scaling green finance while evaluating ways to overcome them. Discussions will also delve into the role of digital technologies, including AI and blockchain, in enhancing accountability and efficiency. Carbon markets and pricing mechanisms will be discussed along with the role of cooperation on global and regional levels, robust monitoring systems, and KPIs to ensure accountability. By fostering collaboration, sharing best practices, and addressing structural barriers, the Global Climate Finance Conference 2025 aims to transform commitments into tangible progress, paving the way for a sustainable and equitable future.

Join the Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) as it launches its first ocean science-based targets for the seafood sector! In response to the interconnected crises of climate change and nature loss, SBTN’s new science-based targets provide companies with seafood in their supply chains a rigorous tool to address their impacts on nature and biodiversity. By setting targets and taking resulting action, companies can help support healthy, resilient marine and coastal ecosystems. These ocean targets complement the existing freshwater and land science-based targets, enabling companies to use SBTN’s methodology across diverse supply chains and geographies, from ridge to reef. During this webinar, you’ll get a first look at the technical guidance, learn about the next steps companies can take toward setting ocean science-based targets for the seafood sector, and have an opportunity to ask questions.

Join FORLIANCE for a webinar on Improved Forest Management (IFM) and how sustainable forestry practices can enhance carbon sequestration, biodiversity, and economic resilience. This session will explore key IFM strategies and their role in climate mitigation and wildfire prevention.

​What You’ll Learn:

​✅ The fundamentals of Improved Forest Management as well as IFM best practices
✅ How IFM contributes to carbon sequestration & climate resilience
✅ The role of wildfire prevention, reforestation, and selective logging
✅ Economic benefits & carbon credit opportunities
✅ Case studies of successful IFM projects

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The completion of the Article 6 rulebook at COP29 marks the culmination of nine years of negotiations and heralds a new wave of opportunity for carbon markets. To participate in these Article 6 deals, countries need to put in place policies, processes and infrastructure. At the same time, other carbon market participants need to have confidence to continue to invest in the market while these systems are under development. In this webinar, we explore practical guidance and live examples of how different players are navigating the early days of Article 6–ready carbon markets.

Speakers include:

• Marisa Martin, Managing Director – Pollination
• Matt King, Chief Climate Officer – Ecosafi
• Markus Pohlmann, Senior Counsel (Climate Finance) – World Bank
• Uti Agarwal, Americas Carbon Originator – BP
• Daniel Lamptey, Principal Programme Officer – Environmental Protection Authority of Ghana
• Moderator: Rick Saines, Managing Director – Pollination

High-integrity carbon credits are key to the net-zero transition and financing nature. Amidst prevailing complexity and uncertainty in many markets, investment interest in carbon crediting assets remains strong. So how are market participants finding confidence in the market and managing their risks?

this session will unpack some of the emerging products, tools and approaches to de-risk investing in carbon markets, covering practical examples such as insurance products, bespoke investment vehicles, robust due diligence and innovative finance models.

Speakers include:

• Stephanie Russo, Executive Director – Pollination
• Matt Weaver, Head of Climate Risk & Resilience – Howden
• Lucy Palairet, Director Carbon Markets Development – Standard Chartered Bank
• Moderator: Lauren Drake, Executive Director – Pollination

Join Sylvera’s experts as we dive into the pivotal trends that shaped the last year in the carbon market, to help you plan for 2025.

They will unveil key findings from our comprehensive State of Carbon Credits report, including the growing demand for high-quality credits, price volatility, and the increasing convergence of voluntary and compliance markets.

The expert panel will delve into what these trends mean for buyers, offering actionable strategies for navigating today’s complex carbon market.

Plus we’ll answer your burning questions and help provide the clarity you need to succeed.

How can regenerative landscapes drive large-scale transformation in food systems? What does it take to establish long-term, community-led partnerships that align agriculture, environment, and local economies for sustainable change?

Join 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People (1000L) and Regen10, along with leading voices in the fields of agriculture, food systems, business, and landscape restoration as they explore key findings from the new white paper, A Strategy for Transforming Food Systems through Regenerative Landscapes. This session will highlight practical strategies for scaling regenerative agriculture through integrated landscape partnerships and offer insights on how to bridge the gaps between policymakers, farmers, businesses, and financial institutions.

Hear from experts from the leading agriculture, conservation, systems change, and business organizations, including Climate KIC, World Farmers Organization, Rainforest Alliance, Rockefeller Foundation, UNDP, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and more.

The 2025 Forests + Climate Learning Exchange Series (LES) on forest carbon offsets, co-hosted by the Michigan State University Forest Carbon & Climate Program, Pennsylvania State University FOCCE Program, and the Society of American Foresters aims to bring leading experts in the forest carbon space together to not only identify major questions, barriers, and gaps surrounding carbon offsets and natural climate solutions, but to also work to solve the pressing issues of the field.

The LES’ paneled-webinar style talks encourage dialogue between thought leaders of diverse backgrounds to advance research priorities and identify paths forward.

Join Barbara Haya (UC Berkeley), Brent Sohngen (Ohio State), and Ethan Belair (The Nature Conservancy) for the third panel webinar: “Research priorities to reduce forest carbon leakage” will discuss urgent research needs to address carbon leakage, an unintended consequence that may reduce forest carbon offset mitigation benefits. This webinar will discuss emerging concepts to better understand and quantify forest carbon leakage and ultimately improve the credibility of forest carbon offsets in support greenhouse gas emission reductions.

Dr. Bin Mei, Duke University, will present “Financial trade-offs of managing forestlands for carbon and wood products” as the final webinar of the 2024-2025 Building Forest Carbon and Market Decision Support Webinar series. This webinar provides an overview of potential financial trade-offs of managing forestlands for carbon and wood product with a focus on understanding what opportunities or challenges may arise with shifting traditional forest finance pathways to new and innovative markets ultimately informing future management strategies with regards to forestland owner decision-making

Building on the outcomes of UNFCCC COP29 and CBD COP16, we invite you to our webinar titled “Nature and Climate: A Critical Moment for Global Action.” This engaging online event will focus on the essential relationship between our natural environment and climate change. We will gather leading experts, policymakers, and scientists to discuss effective strategies for preserving our natural world and addressing climate change. We aim to deepen our understanding of the interconnectedness between nature and climate on the road to COP 30.

This World Wildlife Day, hear from the Nature Positive Initiative members on the ongoing work to build consensus on an aligned minimum set of metrics for measuring the state of our world’s nature.

The agenda will include:
 Findings from the public consultation on terrestrial metrics and how feedback
has been incorporated into the draft metrics
 Information on the upcoming piloting programme and how to get involved
 Updates on other key workstreams being led by the NPI coalition, including on
freshwater and marine metrics
 An opportunity to ask your questions.

🕑Time: Option 1: 9.00-10.00 GMT; Option 2: 16.00-17.00 GMT

✍️Register: Option 1; Option 2

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), in collaboration with The Biodiversity Consultancy (TBC), have led a project with four global NGOs and five energy developers to produce a new suite of guidance documents on key topics for biodiversity and wind and solar energy development. This project follows an initial phase of work that developed the guidance on ‘Mitigating biodiversity impacts associated with solar and wind energy development’. This webinar series aims to showcase these new publications along with expert panellists across the following topics:

Session 1 – Cumulative Impact Assessment and Spatial Planning: 6ᵗʰ March 2025

Session 2 – Biodiversity Enhancement: 13ᵗʰ March 2025

Session 3 – Responsible Sourcing and Biodiversity: 20ᵗʰ March 2025