New Green Shoots 2024: Latest trends and innovations in nature finance

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Languages: English
Date: 30 January 2024
Sessions: 1 session
Commitment: 90 min

With nature and biodiversity declining at an unprecedented rate, and developments such as the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and the launch of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework, nature topics have been attracting an increasing level of attention by the financial sector.

Thanks to this, innovations with the ultimate goal of halting and reversing biodiversity loss have been taking place in nature finance. Since 2022, the annual New Green Shoots webinar has been kicking off the new year with a review of the latest innovative nature finance products that have come onto the market. This year, without exception, the webinar will introduce you to the emerging trends in nature finance from the past year, and highlight a few innovative products and mechanisms with high potential to scale the

Webinar agenda

Length of the presentation	Presentation	Presenter
2:00 – 2:05	Opening and introduction	Jessica Smith, Co-Head of Nature at UNEP FI
2:05 – 2:10	Emerging trends and introduction of the speakers	Jessica Smith, Co-Head of Nature at UNEP FI
2:10 – 2:25	Presentation: Towards Building a Capital Continuum for Nature-Positive Investments	Diana Denke, CEO at Fair Carbon
2:25 – 3:05	Innovations in the nature market	Ruth Murray, Investment Director, Sustainable Infrastructure at Gresham House Fabian Huwyler, Founder and Managing Partner at Posaidon Isabelle Combarel, Deputy Director at SWEN Capital Partners Alexander Wiese on Fiji Sovereign Bond
3:05 – 3:15	Q&A and closing