Tuesday, September 23, 2025
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Nature4Climate: Financing Forests: A Framework for Action
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
World Wildlife Fund: Nature Needs Us Now: Unlocking finance for nature and climate
Conservation International: From Pledge to Practice: Transforming Climate and Biodiversity Finance through Indigenous-Led Action
Nuveen: Capital Management ACR: Today’s Business Case for Nature-Based Solutions: Delivering Returns for Nature, Climate, and Investors
Forest Stewardship Council: From Rights to Partnerships: Working with Indigenous Peoples for Nature
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
WCS: Forests as Natural Infrastructure: Building a Portfolio Approach for Risk, Return, and Resilience
The Nature Conservancy: Financing the Forest Agenda: Actions to Scale Proven and Profitable Solutions
Rainforest Foundation Norway: Protecting Papua’s Forests -Youth-led approaches to climate, livelihoods and land rights
BTG Pactual: What it takes to restore tens of thousands of hectares of forest; from design and finance, onto delivery
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Forest Stewardship Council: From Forest Floor to Sales Floor: Scaling Business Action for Forests, Climate, and Nature
Rainforest Foundation Norway: Breaking Barriers: How Indigenous and Community Governance is Reshaping Climate Finance
WCS: Advancing best practice in allocation of jurisdictional REDD+ baselines
World Wildlife Fund: Nature Needs Us Now: Market Mechanisms to Safeguard Nature From Food Production Impacts
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
CERES: Catalyst of Change: Momentum by Investors and Companies on Nature Action
Nature4Climate: Act Now, Manage Risk — Reframing Durability in Climate Solutions
World Wildlife Fund: $24 Trillion at Stake: Corporate Leadership for a Prosperous and Nature-Positive Ocean
Conservation International: Scaling Nature-based Solutions for Coastal Adaptation
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Satelligence: One Lens, Two Crises: Using Satellite Data to Drive Real Action on Climate and Biodiversity
L'Occitane en Provence: From Seed to Bloom: How Nature Anchors and Elevates Business (Invite Only)
Nature4Climate: INVEST WITH NATURE: Connecting investors & projects to enhance capital mobilization for COP30 (Invite Only)
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Nature4Climate: From Rights to Partnerships: Partnerships for success - Corporate / Indigenous learning circle (Invite Only)
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Conservation International: Accelerating Natural Climate Solutions through innovative science and AI-enabled Nature Tech
Weyerhaeuser: Accounting for the full carbon impact of land to catalyze action and investment
Mission Investors Exchange: Land, Sea and Air: Philanthropy’s Role in Accelerating Nature-Based Solutions through Impact Investing
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Rainforest Foundation Norway: Socio-Bioeconomies in the front line of Rainforest protection – Communities reshaping markets
Forest Stewardship Council: Bridging the Scale Gap: Advancing Climate Solutions with Agentic AI — At What Cost to the Climate?
WCS: Putting It Into Practice: A Case Study on Landscape-Level Action for Deforestation-Free and Climate Resilient Commodities
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
KPMG/Nature4Climate: Build business momentum for nature ahead of Belem (Invite Only)
WCS: Realizing an Equitable Future: The Role of the Private Sector
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators: From America’s Urban Canopy to its Sprawling Woodlands: State Legislators Advancing Bold Forestry Policies to Deliver Climate, Justice, and Biodiversity Gains
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Rainforest Foundation Norway: The Interfaith Rainforest Initiative 2.0: How Working with Religions Is Helping to Overcome Polarization, Counter Misinformation, Strengthen Democracy, and Mobilize New Commitment to Halt and Reverse Tropical Deforestation
World Wildlife Fund: Floods, Fire, and Fever: Building Resilience Through Nature and Across Sectors
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: The Business Case for Nature Positive: Success Stories of Regenerative Agriculture
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Symbiosis Coalition (Invite Only)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Conservation International: Investing in the bioeconomy - supporting conservation, restoration, and business development
Forest Stewardship Council: Forests at the Frontier of Climate Action
First Nations Development Institute: Tribal Climate Solutions Storytelling Showcase
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Nature United, RBC Climate Action Institute: Closing the Nature Deficit: Unlocking Nature’s Role in Economic Growth
CTrees: Building Trust in Forest Climate Action: Digital MRV for a Tree-Based U.S. Economy
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