About The Nature Hub @LCAW

Invest with Nature: for a thriving economy

📅 Thursday 25th June 2026
🕗 8:30am – 5pm
📍 London Zoo, Regent’s Park

Nature investments are no longer part of a niche agenda — they are fast becoming central to how economies manage risk, drive growth, and build resilience. As climate and biodiversity pressures reshape markets and supply chains, a new consensus is emerging: long-term prosperity cannot be built on the depletion of natural systems.

Investing with nature offers a proven, cost-effective pathway to deliver a triple return — climate stability, biodiversity protection, and economic growth. From strengthening supply chains to unlocking new markets and revenue streams, nature-based solutions are increasingly being recognised as a core economic strategy.

The Nature Hub returns to London Climate Action Week to convene leaders from across business, finance, and the public sector to explore how this shift can be accelerated. Through a series of discussions and exchanges, the programme will explore the role of nature in reducing climate risk, strengthening supply chains, fostering economic resilience and powering innovation.

How to apply

Registration for the main discussions is invitation-only. If you would like to register your interest in attending, please click here.

To support a balanced and high-quality set of discussions, please note:

Attendance is typically limited to one representative per organisation, per session (with the exception of private sector organisations with over 500 employees and event partners)
Places are limited and allocated to ensure a diverse mix of sectors and perspectives and can vary according to each discussion
Confirmations are shared on a rolling basis, and we may hold some applications to ensure the right balance across discussions. You will always be notified if your place is confirmed.

AGENDA

(9:00 – 09:15 am) – Opening Key Note

(9:15 – 10:30 am) – Private sector investment in nature-based solutions for adaptation and water security

This session examines how private sector actors — from insurers to multinational corporations — are moving beyond compliance to make strategic investments in nature as critical infrastructure for climate adaptation. Through a series of expert interviews and case studies, the session will explore how investments have been made in forests and freshwater ecosystems to secure water supply, reducing exposure to climate-driven risk.

Cases will span multiple biomes, illustrating how nature-based approaches are being deployed to avert or mitigate the economic consequences of natural disasters — from flooding to wildfire — and how these interventions are being structured, financed, and measured. Participants will leave with a practical understanding of the financial structures, risk frameworks, and outcome metrics that are making NbS adaptation investment increasingly attractive to mainstream capital.

Audience: Capital Allocators, Institutional Investors, Insurance Companies, Corporations or Large Businesses, Technical Leads from Consultancies, Government and Think Tank Representatives.

(10:30 – 11:15 am) Delivering and expanding Natural Climate Solutions investments: Lessons today to ensure a more resilient tomorrow

This session examines how carbon revenues can be deployed as a catalyst for securing and scaling regenerative agriculture and forestry assets as long-term, resilient investments. A central focus will be on how these models can be adapted and replicated across natural capital asset classes more broadly, offering a transferable framework for investors and corporates seeking to integrate or expand nature in their portfolios.

Drawing on successful, active case studies from funds operating in the natural capital space, participants will gain insight into how investment vehicles can be structured to attract capital, generate sustainable returns, whilst delivering measurable environmental and social outcomes.

Audience: Capital Allocators and Institutional Investors, Corporations or Large Businesses with Natural Assets

(11:45 – 13:00 pm) Ending deforestation: the private sector’s role to make Deforestation History

Deforestation continues at an alarming rate, and the gap between ambition and delivery remains wide. This plenary maps the emerging convergence between government roadmaps, accountability frameworks, and corporate action, and invites businesses to join a broad-based movement to Make Deforestation History—turning fragmented efforts into a shared push for measurable progress by 2030.

It’s designed for a corporate audience and builds directly on the Hub’s overarching frame “Invest with Nature: from climate risk to resilient economies” and the Hub format (plenary + practical pathways + follow-on engagement). This session will be followed by a more in-depth dialogue and round table discussion.

Audience: Institutional Investors, Corporations or Large Businesses, Technical Leads from Consultancies, Government and Think Tank Representatives.

(13:30 – 14:30 pm) Integrity by Design: The Triple Dividend of High‑Integrity Nature Finance

This session will explore how carbon markets can manage reversal risk in ways that preserve integrity while enabling urgent climate action now. It builds on the conversation begun at the Nature Hub during Climate Week NYC last year, but moves the discussion forward from high-level framing to practical implementation.

The core premise is straightforward: reversal risk is real, but it is manageable. The relevant question for policymakers, standard setters, and market participants is not whether every tonne can be guaranteed for centuries under all circumstances, but how different risk-management tools can be designed, combined, and improved to deliver durable climate outcomes at scale. This reflects the central message that climate policy should move beyond a binary “permanent versus non-permanent” framing and instead evaluate durability, scale, and risk management together within a portfolio approach.

The timing is strong. The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has now launched a follow-on Continuous Improvement Work Program on “Permanence: Monitoring and Compensation,” focused on three especially relevant areas: stress-testing pooled buffer reserves, standardising project-level risk assessment, and exploring novel compensation mechanisms including permanence trusts and insurance. At the same time, SHIFT-CM is advancing science-backed work on “Buffer Pools and Beyond,” aimed at developing a standardised taxonomy of approaches that can reduce non-permanence risk, compensate for reversals, and extend the guaranteed durability of nature-based credits. And a group that includes the Beyond Alliance, the American Forest Foundation and RMI are preparing a paper targeted at policymakers and standard-setters that explores legal and financial mechanisms to guarantee storage for a defined duration and address liabilities and remedies in the event of reversal.

Together, these developments create an opportunity for a more substantive public conversation: not just why nature must remain in the portfolio, but how the market can improve the tools that manage risk.

Audience: Capital Allocators, Institutional Investors, Insurance Companies, Corporates investing or seeking to invest in nature-based solutions.

(14:30 – 15:30 pm) Bridging the Nature-Tech Divide: How to Deliver a Portfolio Approach in Practice

This session will explore how to move beyond high-level “both/and” rhetoric and into the practical question of how a portfolio approach can actually be understood, communicated, and supported in practice. The core premise is not that the nature community should diminish its own case, but that it should engage with greater strategic confidence in making the case for complementarity across climate solutions.

Held at the Nature Hub, the session should therefore be framed carefully: not as a defense of nature over tech, but as a constructive challenge to participants to evaluate the assumptions, cultures, and institutional biases that continue to reinforce unproductive divides across the climate field. While policymakers are an important audience, the session is also designed to engage the nature and tech communities directly, as well as investors and funders whose choices can either help bridge these divides or deepen them. This framing builds on the underlying premise in the draft note that the nature-tech divide is not simply technical, but reflects deeper differences around time, risk, proof, and trust.

Audience: Institutional Investors, Insurance Companies, Corporations or Large Businesses, Nature Tech Businesses, Government and Think Tank Representatives.

(16:00 – 17:00 pm) Managing Reversal Risk: Solutions for Durable Nature-Based Carbon Markets

As scrutiny of credit quality intensifies, permanence and durability have moved to central concerns for buyers, investors, and standard-setters alike. The session will take a detailed look at reversal risk: how it is defined, quantified, and managed across evolving frameworks and initiatives. It will also examine the emerging treatment of carbon credits as balance sheet assets — exploring the accounting, legal, and financial conditions under which credits can be recognised as durable holdings rather than transactional instruments.

Case studies will illustrate how projects and funds are structuring permanence commitments, and what “in perpetuity” means in practice when land tenure, policy environments, and ecosystem conditions are in constant flux. Participants will leave with a detailed understanding of the tools, frameworks, and financial structures available to deliver permanently funded natural climate solutions — and a clearer sense of where the field still has work to do.