Webinar events

Companies and investors have long recognized the business risks associated with forest clearing and other forms of environmental harm around the world—yet considerable work remains to protect natural ecosystems, corporate bottom lines, and shareholder interests.

What Does the Ocean Want Us to Grow? explores restorative ocean farming as a model of ecocentric thinking in action, and what it offers leaders, communities, and policymakers reimagining our relationship with the natural world.

Restorative ocean farming doesn’t begin with what we want to take from the ocean. It begins with a different question entirely: what does the ocean want us to grow? That shift — from extraction to invitation, from imposition to listening — has given rise to regenerative models that restore marine habitat, feed communities, and demonstrate what a genuinely reciprocal relationship between human enterprise and living ecosystems can look like.

This free webinar introduces restorative ocean farming through the lens of ecocentric equity: the principle that human and ecological flourishing are inseparable, and that sustainability means meeting human needs by centring our local ecosystem and our cultural heritage. Drawing on the work of practitioners like Bren Smith, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and the emerging science of polyculture ocean gardens, the session explores what these models make possible and what they ask of us.

Intended attendees: Anyone curious about nature-based solutions, regenerative food systems, marine conservation, and the intersection of ecology and equity — across sectors and experience levels.

Objectives: Participants will leave with a richer understanding of restorative ocean farming as both a practical model and a philosophical shift, and an expanded sense of what reciprocal relationships between human communities and living ecosystems can look like in practice. Light networking for those interested in regenerative ocean approaches.

Speaker: Tara A. Pierce, Restorative Ocean Community Advisor, Founder, Restoring Sustainablity

Format: Webinar with Q&A | Free | 60 minutes

This hybrid event will dive into the cost of nature restoration financing in selected EU member states.

This session will bring together leading experts and practitioners to discuss how corporate actors can contribute to large-scale forest conservation while strengthening resilient and sustainable supply chains.

​This Land Dialogues session brings together leaders from the Amazon, the Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia to explore what helps rainforests stay standing in practice. Many of the world’s most intact forests are found in Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local community territories, yet forests still face growing pressure from logging, extraction, and competing land-use decisions. The session will examine how decisions over forests are made, who influences them, and why some governance systems are able to hold over time while others break down.

​Through real examples from across rainforest regions, speakers will discuss how governments, laws, and territorial governance systems interact on the ground, and what this means for keeping forests standing. The session will use a fishbowl format with an open chair, allowing audience members to join the discussion directly alongside speakers. Together, the conversation aims to move beyond high-level commitments and focus on what is actually working in practice, and why.

Agenda
Doors open from 9:00am
9:30–10:00am — Registration and coffee
10:00–11:30am — Land Dialogues session
11:30am–12:00pm — Light reception

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This year, world leaders will meet three times to discuss the future of land, nature and climate. While these are separate meetings, they represent a ‘Triple-COP’ moment. Together, they will set the policy floor for the next decade, signalling where regulation is heading and where markets must adapt.

Register for either session: AM CEST or PM CEST 

The COP30 Presidency Roadmap for Halting and Reversing Deforestation and Forest Degradation by 2030 is an action-orientated framework introduced by the Brazilian COP30 Presidency. It aims to accelerate global efforts to halt deforestation and promote forest restoration, serving as a concrete strategy to implement the Global Stocktake. This session will feature COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago, COP30 CEO Ana Toni and Itamaraty’s Head of Forest Unit and lead of this roadmap, Marco Tulio Cabral. An update on the status of the roadmap will be presented, and a dedicated moment to hear from you on initiatives and discuss with the presenters how to advance in the collaboration between the Action Agenda and the roadmap.

What were the defining trends in forest loss in 2025? Which countries saw encouraging shifts, and why? Where should the world focus its attention to meet global targets to end deforestation?

Join WRI’s Global Forest Watch for a deep dive into the latest annual tree cover loss data from the University of Maryland’s GLAD lab. This year’s event will also spotlight three pivotal themes shaping forest trends: national forest protection policies, fires as a growing threat, and mining. Experts from around the world will discuss and explore why these are the critical “Stories to Watch” for forests in 2026.

Plus, we’ll provide a look at how tree cover loss data is being integrated into Global Nature Watch, a new innovative, open, AI-powered system developed by WRI that combines peer-reviewed research from WRI and partners in a simple, chat-style interface to make land data more accessible and actionable.

Explore the data early: We encourage registrants to review Global Forest Watch’s in-depth analysis and expert insights on the Global Forest Review in advance of the webinar.

This webinar will be presented in English, with simultaneous interpretation into Bahasa Indonesian, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Keynote:
Frances Seymour, Senior Policy Advisor, Woodwell Climate Research Center

Host:
Rod Taylor, Global Director, Forests and Nature Protection Program, WRI

Data presentation:
Elizabeth Goldman, Co-Director, Global Forest Watch, WRI

Sarah Carter, Research Associate, Global Forest Watch, WRI

Speakers:
Hidayah Hamzah, Peat and Forest Monitoring Senior Manager, WRI Indonesia

Joaquín Carrizosa, Senior Advisor, WRI Colombia

Dr. Jean Bakouma, Republic of Congo Country Manager and Lead Economist for the Congo Basin, WRI

Mirela Sandrini, Executive Director, WRI Brasil

Moderator: Teodyl Nkuintchua, Congo Basin Strategy and Engagement Leader, WRI Africa

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