Webinar events

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.

On the way to the upcoming UN Biodiversity Conference COP16, scheduled for October 2024 in Cali, Colombia, this webinar will delve into the preparations made by governments updating their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM GBF).  

Additionally, they will facilitate discussions among representatives of financial institutions, exploring how to engage with governments on the GBF implementation and their needs in creating an enabling policy environment to reduce negative impact and increase positive impact on biodiversity through their finance activities and investments. 

This webinar is a part of the series ‘We Need to Talk about Biodiversity’, a collaborative effort between Finance for Biodiversity Foundation, UNEP FI, the PRI and the EU Business & Biodiversity Platform.

Join this insightful webinar to explore the role companies should play in making the global food system fit for the future.

Co-hosted by the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU), World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), and We Mean Business Coalition, the event will delve into key insights from a recently published report series: ‘Future Fit Food and Agriculture’ revealing that US $205 billion per year is needed from the food sector to mitigate half of global food system emissions. While significant, these costs are manageable for the sector as a whole as they represent less than 2% of total food sector revenues.

Industry leaders will convene to discuss the critical role companies play in addressing emissions resulting from agricultural production and land-use changes within their value chains. Speakers will spotlight the costs and benefits of this transition, as well as the influence of existing and emerging voluntary standards on climate and nature legislation.

Greenhouse gas emissions are decreasing rapidly for some countries and sectors, not so much in others. This webinar– part of an ongoing series, Drawdown Briefings, available to Drawdown Labs Business and Capital Coalition members and other select stakeholders– will explore these trends and draw conclusions about the areas where emissions are going in the right direction and those which will need to be addressed more deliberately.

The event will focus on discussing how Web3 technologies provide new methods previously unavailable, with the potential to enhance and design equitable nature markets. We will hear from pioneering solution-providers who are crafting applications across different segments.

• Fred Fournier (CEO) of Open Forest Protocol, will showcase the opportunities of a Web3-based MRV system for environmental assets.
• Francisco Gómez (COO) of Terrasos, will speak about their collaboration with Regen Network to create a web3-based bio-credit market offering.
• Hania Othman (Director of Sustainable Impact for EMEA) of HBAR Foundation, will talk about building the technical infrastructure for Web3 digital nature markets and guiding principles.

During the event, Hiba Larsson and Konstantina Koulouri of NatureFinance will also share insights on the Nature Investor Circle’s new extensive market landscape report, identifying opportunities and strategies for Web3 technologies within nature markets.

Crowther Lab‘s Global Experiments Network (GEN) and Restor invite you to a webinar (all in Spanish!) around good practices in nature conservation and restoration worldwide with a particular focus on perspectives from Costa Rica.  The webinar will be conducted in Spanish and will be live streamed on their Youtube channel.

Speakers:

• Isaac Sánchez Solís – Nature conservation and agroecology project manager
• Randy López Abarca – Farmer and Organic Agriculture Technician

Wetlands International and Conservation International in collaboration with Commonland and Landscape Finance Lab are launching a new publication on ‘Landscape Carbon Accounting Guidance’. The publication provides project developers with pragmatic guidance on implementing one of the voluntary carbon standards, the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), at a landscape level, focusing on the greenhouse gas accounting component.

The publication also seeks to provide guidance on addressing the complexity associated with developing verified carbon standard projects when taken at the landscape-scale approach, to boost investment and achieve holistic impact.

They invite all landscape restoration practitioners, carbon project developers and other interested parties to learn more by attending the online Launch Webinar.

In this special event organized in collaboration with Orbitas, international stakeholders will convene to discuss the financial risks and emerging opportunities associated with current efforts to transition towards a low-carbon future. The focus will be on Brazil, particularly its key agricultural sectors—cattle and soy—and their impacts on global value chains.

Attendees will have the opportunity to explore new analyses on the prospects of success in Brazil’s soy and cattle sectors under various climate scenarios, and to hear insights from producers, traders, buyers, and investors working together to catalyze transformation.

Live Portuguese translation will be provided during the event.

VCMI’s Carbon Integrity 101 webinar series invites companies from around the world to learn how to make Carbon Integrity Claims to accelerate global net zero, above and beyond science-aligned emissions cuts. This full programme provides a step-by-step deep dive into VCMI’s Claims Code of Practice, with a live Q&A at the end of each session. Upon completion, participants will be fully equipped with the know-how to make a Carbon Integrity Claim. The first in the Carbon Integrity 101 series, this webinar will provide an overview of VCMI and the Carbon Integrity Claims, explaining how companies can make claims and get recognized for ambitious climate leadership.