Webinar events

The Nature for Life Hub is a virtual event and global communications campaign, hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and its partners, dedicated to placing nature at the heart of sustainable development. They convene world leaders, businesses, finance experts, NGOs, Indigenous Peoples, and activists to showcase solutions and drive ambitious action for nature.

UNDP is excited to welcome you to a new chapter for the Nature for Life Hub as it evolves into a year-round learning space. This platform is designed to equip you with practical tools, technical knowledge, and real-world insights through interactive, self-paced learning journeys.

To mark the launch of the Nature for Life Hub learning journeys, UNDP invites you to a three-day online event taking place on 10-12 March at 10 am EDT/New York time. The event will explore the shifts needed in our economy, policies, and values to move toward a nature-positive future. You will hear from global experts and local leaders as we examine the changes shaping our path for the decade ahead.

Investment and business opportunities that can benefit nature have been wrongly typecast as limited to “bees, trees and farmers”.

Global Canopy’s Little Book of Nature Business busts that myth by showcasing nature innovations spanning eight economic sectors – including food, construction, utilities and extractives – with potential to scale and support the global transition toward a US$10tn nature-positive economy.

Join Global Canopy for a webinar introducing this simple, inspirational guide for investors, lenders, businesses and policymakers, and hear from a panel of experts what the book offers financial institutions.

This webinar will introduce the guide Risk Mitigation Measures for Forests and People under the EUDR, developed by AidEnvironment and Sangga Bumi Lestari.

The session will present the guide’s structured, non-prescriptive typology of risk mitigation measures and explore how companies can operationalise them across supply chains. Participants will gain practical insights into company-level and collective approaches, including landscape and jurisdictional initiatives, while promoting the inclusion of smallholders and Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.

Speakers include:
David D’Hollander – Proforest
Franzi Rau – GIZ
Ristika Putri – LTKL
Rita Raleira – AidEnvironment

The webinar launching the discussion paper will introduce the concept of Nature Positive Pathways (NPPs) and explain how they offer a practical, government-led approach to guiding sectoral transitions and mobilising finance. Jointly authored by Business for Nature, Finance for Biodiversity, the Green Finance Institute, The Nature Conservancy, and WWF, the paper is intended as a starting point for further dialogue with governments, organisations, and businesses worldwide. In 2026, the publication of the IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment and preparations for the Global Biodiversity Framework Global Stocktake at COP17 create a timely opportunity to advance calls for Nature Positive Pathways as a government-led process to support a sustainable and resilient economy. Join the webinar to learn more about the key points of the paper as well as to hear from experts on the importance of Nature-Positive Pathways.

From Angola in southern Africa to Angola Bay in North Carolina, The Nature Conservancy is leading efforts to protect and restore peatlands—one of the planet’s most powerful natural climate solutions. Although peatlands cover only about 3% of Earth’s surface, they play an outsized role in regulating the carbon and water cycles.

These unique ecosystems store one-quarter of the world’s soil carbon—more than all the carbon contained in global forest biomass combined. By protecting and rewetting peatlands, we can slow climate change and safeguard communities from its worst impacts, reducing the risks of floods, droughts, and wildfires.

Join scientists from TNC’s Africa and North Carolina programs as they share innovative strategies for mapping, prioritizing, and restoring these rare habitats—critical for both biodiversity and climate resilience.

On January 30, GHG Protocol released the Land Sector and Removals (LSR) Standard, establishing the first global benchmark for companies to account for emissions and CO2 removals from agricultural land use and CO2 removals from emerging technologies like direct air capture. While land use accounts for nearly a quarter of global emissions, companies have historically lacked a credible method to report these impacts. This new Standard fills that critical gap in corporate GHG inventory accounting.

Join GHG Protocol experts for this launch event to learn what’s included in the Standard and how it applies to your company. During the event, speakers will demonstrate how the LSR Standard provides companies with road-tested methods to report land-sector impacts with the same rigor as energy use. We will show how these rules equip businesses—from global food producers to apparel retailers—to track their progress and disclose their climate impact with confidence.

The webinar will also cover how the Standard breaks new ground by introducing rules to credibly account for and report CO2 removals in a GHG inventory. We will discuss how these high-integrity requirements enable companies to track progress toward net zero targets, which is essential for limiting warming to 1.5C. Participants will leave with a clear introduction to the Standard and what comes next.

Panelists:

• Alexander Bassen, GHG Protocol Independent Standards Board Chair
• Maia Kutner, Global Director (WBCSD), GHG Protocol
• Matt Ramlow, Land Sector and Removals Lead, GHG Protocol
• Amir Safaei, Land Sector and Removals Team, GHG Protocol

On September 17, join WRI for the livestream of AI, Meet Nature — the launch of a powerful new AI system marking the start of a new era in planetary data and intelligence. 

This will be a new kind of planetary monitoring system — one that translates complex satellite and ecosystem data into real-time intelligence for anyone working to restore land, protect ecosystems and build more sustainable landscapes. 

Join to hear from global conservation leaders and see how AI is reshaping the way we respond to the climate and nature crises. 

What does engagement on nature-related issues look like for institutional investors, asset owners and asset managers, as nature rises on the agenda? This webinar will delve into how funds with small teams and limited capacity can start to analyse their portfolios and engage companies on nature-related issues.

Carbon markets are critical for climate action. Businesses recognize this, but participation in carbon markets has stalled at a time when increased flows of climate finance are urgently needed. New research highlights business perspectives on what’s needed to create a confident carbon market. In this webinar, we will share key findings from the report A confident carbon market: Business perspectives, co-authored by VCMI and Accenture. Informed by cross-sectoral, global business perspectives captured thanks to WBCSD and ICC networks, the research draws on insights captured from 65 companies, 20 expert interviews, and more than 60 reports to illuminate corporate perspectives on what’s holding companies back from engaging in the market—and what needs to happen next.

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 World Ocean Day, we invite you to join a critical conversation exploring the deep and evolving relationship between our ocean and climate change. Too often, the ocean is celebrated for its biodiversity and beauty, yet overlooked for the essential role it plays in regulating our climate and protecting us from its extremes.

In this panel, we begin by examining the profound and accelerating impacts of climate change on our ocean systems, from shifting currents and warming waters to rising seas and collapsing ecosystems. We then turn to the ocean’s untapped potential in climate mitigation and adaptation, from carbon sequestration and marine renewables to nature-based solutions that support both people and planet.

Finally, we explore the complex reality of applying these solutions – including the need for community trust, cross-sector collaboration, and bold systems thinking – to implement effective action in one of the most challenging and dynamic spaces on Earth.

Panelists:

• Georgia Watson – Good for the Gong
• Daniel Fairweather – Howden
• Prof. Jennifer Verduin – Murdoch University

Facilitator: Jessica Leck – OceanEarth Foundation

This discussion will lay the foundations for deeper understanding and spark ideas for transformative change in the face of a rapidly changing climate.

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are a critical requirement to address climate change while delivering co-benefits that span the environmental, societal and economic aspects of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Nature-based solutions were also recognized in ‘First global stocktake’, recognizing that nature and biodiversity are keys to mitigating a heating planet and protecting vulnerable communities from the impacts of a changing climate. Coastal wetlands, such as tidal marshes and mangroves store significant amounts of carbon, while buffering inland areas from the effects of storms, supporting resiliency. Similarly, protecting and enhancing mangroves (coastal defence through tree planting and dune establishment) provides ‘blue carbon’ mitigation benefits, protection from storm surges, stabilization of coastlines and improves safeguarding of biodiversity of marine species.

The second of this webinar series will focus on blue carbon ecosystems and ocean-based climate action as a potential nature-based solution (NbS) to foster synergies across climate action. As countries prepare their next round of NDCs for submission in 2025, known as the NDCs 3.0, the integration of NbS can offer substantial opportunities to contribute to both mitigation and adaptation goals and it will be critical for maximizing climate ambition, building resilience, and promoting sustainable development. 

Objective

This webinar aims to provide policymakers, technical experts, and stakeholders with examples from the region in effectively integrating Blue Carbon and Ocean-based climate action into NDCs. This webinar will be a platform to share concrete examples of initiatives and country experience in a structured way for identifying, designing and implementing synergistic climate goals, aligned with national development priorities.

Expected Outcomes

• Peer-to-peer learning from countries on concrete NbS examples that can be integrated in NDCs

• Strengthened understanding of the knowledge base on NbS – strengthening the links between science and policy – for the development of effective NDCs 3.0.