How to overcome barriers to ensuring financial portfolios are free from deforestation-related activities

A private sector dialogue towards a net zero, nature-positive future. 

The Nature Positive Hub, London Climate Action Week, 26th June 2024 11:30pm-1pm, 11 Cavendish Sq, London, W1

This event brings together a panel of speakers to discuss how the finance sector needs to end portfolio exposure to deforestation and scale finance to nature-positive opportunities.  Through first hand accounts from those leading the way towards zero-deforestation portfolios, attendees will gain insights into the mounting risks of inaction, the most impactful strategies, tools and data, and the connectivity between leading investor nature-related initiatives.   They will also learn about efforts to create an enabling policy environment, how to best make sense of new standards and regulations, and what is needed from policy-makers to drive more ambitious action.  Table discussions will allow practitioners to brainstorm how to overcome the barriers to delivering deforestation-free finance.

The dialogue

The private sector has an incredibly important role to play in meeting climate targets and supporting nature’s recovery.   At present, private finance flows that have a direct negative impact on nature are US$5 trillion, 140 times larger than private investments into Nature-based Solutions (NbS).  Annual NbS investment to limit climate change to 1.5°C and protect 30% of land and sea by 2030 needs to almost triple from US$200 billion to US$542 billion by 2030.

This event aims to build the discussion ahead of COP16 and COP29 as to what can be achieved from the private sector to accelerate progress toward delivering a net zero, nature positive future.

This dialogue will focus on how to overcome barriers to ensuring financial portfolios are free from deforestation-related activities and will discuss:

Challenges Faced: Lack of action across the sector leading to mounting financially material and systemic climate- and nature-related risks.
Strategies Employed: Sharing successful strategies to formulate policies, use data and tools, engage with companies and clients, and drive change across the real economy. 
Impact and Benefits: Demonstrating tangible benefits such as reduced risks, new investment opportunities, and more resilient portfolios.
Future Outlook: Discussing the gap between the state of play versus climate and nature targets, and how connectivity across investor initiatives, emerging disclosure requirements, and legislation and policy, can drive change at scale.

Attendees will have the opportunity to engage directly through a Q&A session and table discussions. This segment will allow for a deeper exploration of the topics discussed and provide attendees with practical insights that they can apply within their own organisations.

This event is subject to the Chatham House rule.

Speakers

Speakers to be confirmed.

Who this event is for

This event is for those working in the private sector who are interested in delivering net zero and nature-positive outcomes through nature-based solutions investments.  We welcome those working in finance, particularly: asset owners, capital allocators & institutional investors (fund managers, analysts, heads of ESG and sustainability), Private equity investors and VCs. 

This event is a free to attend, sponsored event, for those that fit the above description with allocation of one place per organisation.  You can apply to attend by clicking ‘Register’ above.  

The Nature Positive Hub at London Climate Action Week

Building upon the success of our Nature Positive Hub at New York Climate Week, we are bringing Nature Positive to London Climate Action Week in collaboration with NGO partners and private sector sponsors. N4C is hosting a day of discussions and networking opportunities around overcoming hesitation from:

• Finance: Moving portfolios away from deforestation-related investments, and into nature-based solutions.
• Carbon markets: To accelerate responsible corporate action to deliver net zero and nature positive in an integrated way.
• Use of technology: To deliver transparency and accountability.

The Nature Positive Hub aims to:

• Showcase private sector action and investment at the nexus of nature and climate.
• Identify means to overcome the barriers to delivering nature positive.
• Enable information exchange and collaboration.
   

The Nature Positive Hub has 4 sub-events titled “dialogues” which require separate registrations. Each dialogue provides a participant access to the Nature Positive Hub for half an hour before and half an hour after the dialogue.

See this page for all events at the hub