About The Nature Hub @LCAW

The financing gap for nature-based solutions remains enormous. UNEP’s State of Finance for Nature 2026 reports that for every dollar invested in protecting nature, approximately $30 is spent on activities that degrade it. What is missing is not ambition or frameworks. What is missing is the acceleration of capital at scale. This conversation is an opportunity to be honest about where that acceleration is stalling — and who needs to do what to fix it.

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.

An interactive session which will draw together inspiring examples of how and where businesses are already contributing to the GBF, provide real life examples and challenges of how businesses can feed into national level NBSAPs and look at how national planning and transition plans on nature & climate can become more integrated.

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.

This event makes the case that community leadership is a market quality signal, backed by evidence. Through case studies of Indigenous- and community-led projects, participants will examine how governance structure, land tenure and generations of place-based ecological knowledge drive the durability, credibility, and long-term integrity. Then, attendees will gather in roundtable discussions where they will focus on the roadblocks and opportunities for investment and scalability.

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.

Nature-based solutions face a structural financing challenge: projects require significant upfront investment and carry delayed, uncertain revenues, limiting access to traditional capital—particularly in the earliest stages of development when risk is highest.  This roundtable sparks conversations around distinct and practical roles the corporate sector can play in addressing these gaps, by exploring three primary levers.  Grounded in real examples, this discussion will explore how corporate engagement can directly influence achieving our broader, shared climate ambitions.

Nature‑based solutions are gaining institutional momentum form buyers and investors, yet credibility remains the core challenge. Investors and corporates need clear ways to distinguish truly high‑integrity, durable projects from those lacking scientific rigour, community safeguards or environmental additionality. This session brings together leading investors, project developers, solutions providers and standards setters to define what credible nature finance looks like, and why it matters for corporate strategy and bankability.

Following the plenary, we will convene a small group of senior leaders from corporates, financial institutions, governments and technical organisations for a practical, implementation focused discussion.  The session will focus on how companies and financial actors can work together to activate landscape‑level approaches that both protect forests and strengthen supply chain resilience.

This session will bring policymakers, investors, and leaders from both the nature and technology communities together for a frank, solutions-focused conversation on how climate portfolios actually work in the real world. Moving beyond abstract calls for “both nature and tech,” the session will examine why unhelpful divides persist – and what it would take to build a more credible, investable, and politically durable mix of climate solutions. Drawing on emerging insights from the SHIFT‑CM Optimising Climate Solutions work, the discussion will explore how different expert communities weigh risk, time, and durability, and how those perspectives shape policy, capital allocation, and strategy. This discussion will invite participants to move past false choices and engage with what a practical, complementary climate portfolio could look like in practice.

The natural capital sector, which traditionally includes farmland and timberland, has long been recognized for its portfolio-level benefits — diversification, attractive returns, stable cash yield and a hedge against inflation.  In this roundtable we will explore the trends, emerging strategies, portfolio management and measurement approaches which can deliver a portfolio of NBS investments with competitive performance, diversification benefits, and measurable positive impacts on nature and climate.

This session will convene policymakers, standard setters, market actors, and civil society to explore how carbon markets can credibly manage reversal risk while enabling urgent climate action with the full portfolio of climate solutions today. Moving beyond a binary debate about permanence, the discussion will focus on practical tools and emerging innovations – such as buffer pools, insurance, stress testing, and legal and financial mechanisms – that can be designed, combined, and continuously improved to deliver durable climate outcomes at scale. The speakers will spotlight how better risk management can strengthen market integrity, build confidence, and ensure both nature-based and tech-based solutions remain central pillars of climate mitigation in the critical decades ahead.

Despite declining concern about climate issues in some regions, forward-looking companies committed to Net Zero are increasingly seeking high-integrity carbon removal credits. At the same time, more countries are introducing carbon regulations aimed at attracting foreign investment into high-impact projects. How can long-term impact be ensured, and how can growing corporate demand be met when most nature-based removal projects remain small-scale and undercapitalized?

This panel will explore an emerging solution: treating nature-based projects as investment-grade infrastructure assets. It will examine the rationale behind this approach, its benefits, and the regulatory features most attractive to international investors.