Webinar events

This webinar brings together experts from Land & Carbon Lab, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, the University of Maryland’s GLAD Lab and the Bezos Earth Fund to showcase the latest advancements in near-real-time vegetation monitoring. With DIST-ALERT now integrated into Global Forest Watch, this cutting-edge, free and publicly available tool provides global alerts for vegetation disturbances at a 30×30-meter resolution, detecting changes across forests, grasslands, crops and more.

Learn how to access and apply DIST-ALERT data to monitor land disturbances caused by human activities such as deforestation and agricultural expansion, as well as natural events like droughts and wildfires. This is also an opportunity to preview exciting updates, including forthcoming classification tools designed to distinguish between human-driven and natural disturbances — unlocking greater potential for research, conservation and policy applications. Interested users can take part in the development of these powerful tools as beta testers.

Whether you’re looking to integrate the latest data into your work or explore innovative tools for monitoring land disturbances, this webinar offers valuable insights into the power and potential of DIST-ALERT.

Not only do your consumers want to know about your sustainability goals, they crave it. In a recent survey by the Arbor Day Foundation, 79% of US adults say they believe corporations have an obligation to address climate change, and 71% say they are more loyal to companies that take an active role in protecting the environment. When it comes to your customers’ understanding of trees and nature-based solutions, they are all in: 88% of US adults are aware of how trees can have a global impact for their role in slowing climate change. By utilizing nature-based solutions, your company can have a meaningful impact on your sustainability initiatives while also growing your customer loyalty, leading to business wins.

In this webinar, attendees will learn:

• Data-driven insights into what drives consumer purchasing decisions related to sustainability initiatives, and how brands can meet these growing demands with nature-based solutions.
• Examples of how brands have engaged their customers around sustainability and the results they have seen regarding loyalty and business outcomes.
• Best practices for using digital platforms like social media and compelling storytelling to engage consumers and build trust through transparent sustainability communications.

Moderator:

• Margaret Morales, Director, Carbon, Trellis Group

Speakers:

• Grace Widseth, Director of Corporate Partnerships, Arbor Day Foundation
• Brittany O’Bright, Senior Brand Manager, Angel’s Envy
• Todd Wingfield, Stewardship Director, Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products

You are invited to join the first of a four-part webinar series exploring critical challenges and opportunities at the nexus of nature and finance. Each session will delve into one of the key themes shaping the integration of nature-related data into investment decision-making, with expert insights, case studies, and actionable strategies.

Investors often face a lack of consistent reported data, making it difficult to assess the environmental impact of portfolio companies. You are invited to join a webinar on Friday, January 31st, 2025, to explore how modelled data – both geospatial and traditional – can be harnessed to create actionable and meaningful KPIs, enabling investors to integrate data into portfolios.

The webinar will cover:

The limitations of reported data and the role of modelled insights
Strategies for integrating modelled data into portfolio-level decision-making, including geospatial examples
Examples of KPIs for tracking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and nature-related risks

Speakers:

◥ Eric Wilburn, Program Officer, Nature Finance, Bezos Earth Foundation

◥ Nell Agate Tsui, Climate & Nature Stress Testing and Scenario Analysis, HSBC

◥ Zach Ferdaña, Director, Conservation & Geospatial Systems, The Nature Conservancy

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.