Webinar events

As the global demand for sustainable food grows, regenerative agriculture has emerged as a powerful solution to address environmental degradation, food insecurity, and economic inequities. But how can investors, businesses, and policymakers work together to scale these solutions while ensuring profitable, nature-positive outcomes?

Join this webinar for an engaging discussion that explores the intersection of regenerative agriculture, sustainable finance, and natural capital. This webinar will bring together innovators and impact investors to discuss how regenerative practices can transform global food systems and drive long-term financial, social, and environmental benefits.

What will you learn

• Identify and evaluate high-impact investment opportunities in regenerative agriculture.
• Understand the financial mechanisms driving nature-based solutions, such as green bonds, sustainability-linked loans, and impact funds.
• Learn how regenerative agriculture supports ESG goals and portfolio resilience.
• Discover key metrics for measuring ecological and financial impacts of investments.

Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities are widely recognized as the best guardians of forests and natural ecosystems, based on traditional knowledge and centuries of successful stewardship.

Effective forest protection and restoration programs cannot be delivered without the full involvement of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Furthermore, many of these programs rely on funding through, for example, carbon credit transactions, which require fair sharing of the proceeds with Indigenous Peoples and local communities. But many Indigenous communities still feel that their voices are not always being heard, and their distinct and diverse world views are not being factored into decision-making.

Corporates are increasingly recognizing the need to integrate the views of Indigenous Peoples and communities when planning and implementing nature and sustainability strategies. This webinar, convened by Emergent, in partnership with EDF will provide corporate sustainability professionals with the opportunity to hear directly from Indigenous leaders to better understand their perspectives, the challenges they face and opportunities to further partner and collaborate.

Speakers:

• Gustavo Sánchez Valle, President of the Red Mexicana de Organizaciones Forestales Campesinas (Red MOCAF)
• Tatiana Martinez, a leader of the indigenous Bribri people, Costa Rica
• Santiago García Lloré, Senior Manager, IPLC & Conservation Partnerships, Forests
• Carol Burga, Director, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Stakeholder Engagement (moderator)

The webinar will be available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

This webinar panel will bring together representatives from various forest carbon payment programs including the Family Forest Carbon Program (FFCP), Finite Carbon, Rubicon Carbon, LandYield, and Climate Action Reserve as well as a verification auditor to provide in-depth expertise on the nuts and bolts of forest carbon markets and payment programs including project development, verification and auditing, and potential payment schemes and structures. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask relevant questions directly to the panel to learn more about the specific details and potential income sources of projects.

Join the 1t.org US Community Collaborative for a briefing on relevant funding opportunities for forest projects.

With several high-profile funding opportunities for forests and high-integrity carbon projects available now and closing soon, the 1t.org US Chapter is hosting a timely and exciting discussion with Salesforce, the Symbiosis Coalition, and the US Endowment for Forests and Communities.

Join To:
• Hear from experts on prognoses for 2025 for forest funding.
• Hear directly from funders about current opportunities.
• Gain insights into how to be competitive in RFP process.
• Engage with community and ask questions of funders/organizers

We are excited to invite you to a webinar exploring The Nature Conservancy’s recent pilot with an entrepreneur in residence (EIR) designed to advance the North America Regenerative Grazing Lands strategy.

TNC engaged Celium Group to apply an entrepreneurial lens and methodologies to protect America’s iconic grasslands. The EIR team focused on identifying new solutions to unlock the needed transformation and drive large-scale systems change.

Join online for a free 1-hour webinar where experts will share key outcomes and learnings from this eight-month entrepreneur in residence engagement.

The world’s largest companies increasingly recognize the risks and opportunities presented by nature. McKinsey reports increasing numbers of companies setting nature-related targets while adoption of the TNFD framework surges ahead of where TCFD was at a similar point 18 months after launch, with each new report raising the bar for the selection and assessment of nature-related risks and opportunities.

Against this backdrop, companies are increasingly engaging in the detailed work of measuring and reporting on their interactions with nature. The data landscape to enable this is rapidly evolving with increasing consolidation of metrics to measure, evidenced most recently by The Nature Positive Initiative’s work to define which State of Nature Metrics are most important.

Join online on the 28th of January for an exclusive webinar to uncover how these macro developments will impact your business and gain valuable insights on how to identify reliable, location-specific, and decision-useful data to assess your nature-related risks and opportunities.

You will learn:
– How the nature data landscape is expected to evolve in 2025
– What approaches leading companies like Tetra Pak and Ørsted have taken to identify the right nature metrics to drive their business decisions
– What tools and resources are available to help your organization optimize your nature data selection process

Chair: Sebastian Leape, CEO at Natcap

Speakers:
– Marco Lambertini, Chair at Nature Positive Initiative / Former Director General at WWF
– Anni Vuohelainen, Biodiversity Lead at Tetrapak
– Emma Hospes, Biodiversity Lead at Ørsted
– Beccy Wilebore, Chief Science Officer at Natcap

Forest Trends, Nature4Climate and the UN Environment Programme are hosting a webinar on forecasts and expectations for REDD+ carbon pricing.

In this webinar, Professor Catherine Lovelock (Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, University of Queensland) will give an accessible overview of carbon accounting for a policy and science audience, as well as talk about her work to develop accounting methods.

Professor Lovelock is a global expert on the impacts of climate change on coastal wetlands and the role of coastal ecosystems in mitigating climate change, and blue carbon. She led the development of the Blue Carbon Method for the Australian Carbon Credit Units scheme and was the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead for the Wetlands chapter (2019). She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences and holds an ARC Laureate Fellowship on restoration and blue carbon in coastal wetlands.

Today, there are 900 million hectares available for reforestation, promising to sequester 750 gigatons of CO2e by mid-century, generating thousands of jobs and restoring vital habitats, all while improving air and water quality for vulnerable populations. However, despite the increasing focus on reforestation investments, sophisticated sustainability teams find that only a few projects meet their strict standards.

So, how are industry leaders responding? They’re moving beyond one-off transactions, adopting innovative and comprehensive approaches to kickstart the next wave of reforestation projects. By integrating the latest technology, they ensure projects have the integrity and durability required to meet market demands.

Indigenous Peoples (IPs) are essential for biodiversity conservation, yet they face ongoing rights violations and displacement worldwide. Despite their crucial role as custodians of nature, they often struggle to access resources and face challenges in protecting their lands and livelihoods.

To address these issues, the UNDP Equator Initiative has partnered with organizations like Conservation Metrics, Digital Democracy, and FAO to develop a self-paced course on forest monitoring and mapping tools. This course aims to provide Indigenous communities with information on monitoring and mapping tools to support their management of forests, while also promoting data management, governance, and sovereignty.

In this side event, they will launch the registration for the virtual, self-paced course ‘Introduction to Forest Monitoring and Mapping Tools for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities‘ powered by the UNDP Learning for Nature platform. They will present the modules and lessons of the course for feedback; hear from partners who have been using monitoring and mapping tools on the ground; and  highlight some of the tools featured in the course.

Climate change and biodiversity loss are interwoven problems, yet we often treat them separately in our planning and actions. Nature-based solutions highlight potential win-wins but only represent a small set of solutions to address either problem. This briefing will explore how the strengths of Project Drawdown’s solutions framework and the conservation communities’ priority mapping can be combined to create a holistic set of technologies and practices that address both challenges at the same time.

This webinar is part of an ongoing series, Drawdown Briefings, available to Drawdown Labs Business and Capital Coalition members and other select stakeholders. All sessions will be available via recording and shared afterwards.