Session 2.1 (9AM EDT - 29 Nov, 2022) | Financing Nature

	29 November, 2022
	9AM – 12:30PM EDT
	Livestream

Nature supports more than half of global GDP. So why do we devote such little funding to protecting nature, why do we spend so much money to destroying it? This session seeks to answer these questions and provide practical solutions on what can be done to finance nature.

Segments

Overview of Finance and Nature

This segment provides an overview of biodiversity finance issues, with a focus on mobilizing private sector funds, including videos about the status of finance for nature, and outtakes from the Global Ethical Finance Initiative.

Transforming Financial Flows and Improving Transparency

This segment explores why we need to improve the transparency of investments in nature-related activities, and ensure that companies report and disclose their impacts on nature. We must also rethink how we invest public expenditures, and explore why we must repurpose environmentally harmful subsidies.

Session 2.2 (1PM EDT - 29 Nov, 2022) | Shifting to a Nature-Positive Economy

	29 November, 2022
	1PM – 4:30PM EDT
	Livestream

This session highlights the urgent need to transition to a nature-positive economy. The session features innovative action from around the world to create sustainable bioeconomies, blue economies, and circular economies, all necessary for a nature-positive future

Segments

Bioeconomies

This segment explores how building a new, nature-based economy, or bioeconomy, can help people and nature thrive together, and presents compelling cases from Ecuador to Europe on how communities are already leading the way.

Blue Economies

This segment explores how an economy based on oceans and marine life – a blue economy – can transform the lives of people, and protect and conserve nature, around the world, from Indonesia to Cabo Verde.

Circular Green Economies

This segment explores what it means to shift from a take-make-waste linear economy to a circular economy, one in which the entire lifespan of a product, from cradle-to-grave-to-cradle is environmentally friendly, and does not result in waste.

Putting Communities at the Heart of Green Business

This segment explores how communities are the backbone of most of the products and services that we enjoy, from coffee to ecotourism, and pepper to beauty products. This segment explores how communities and CEOs from around the world are working to forge new fair trade agreements, and put communities at the heart of green business.

Business, Trade and Supply Chains

This segment explores how business, trade and supply chains can all be aligned with a nature-positive future, and showcases how different actors, from private sector companies, to local communities, to trade organizations, are all helping to foster business practices that align with nature.

Session 3.1 (9AM EDT - 30 Nov, 2022) | Catalyzing Local Action

	30 November, 2022
	9AM – 12:30PM EDT
	Livestream

Local action from Indigenous peoples and local communities is key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. This session features celebrations of the 2022 Equator Prize winners and the GEF Small Grants Programme’s 30th Anniversary, and highlights dimensions of local action.

Segments

Celebrating the Equator Prize Winners

This segment recognizes ten prize-winning local communities from around the world who are protecting, restoring and sustainably managing nature, and in the process, helping to build a nature-based safety net for themselves and the broader world.

Dimensions of Local Action

Local action is essential for building a planetary safety net - a third of the planet is owned or governed by Indigenous peoples and local communities. This segment celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the GEF Small Grants Programme, and showcases different dimensions of local action needed to scale up impact.

Session 3.2 (1PM EDT - 30 Nov, 2022) | Creating a Planetary Safety Net

	30 November, 2022
	1PM – 4:30PM EDT
	Livestream

In order to reverse biodiversity loss and climate change, we must protect, restore, and sustainably manage nature, and create a planetary safety net for humanity. This session outlines how we can effectively care for all of humanity, while protecting, restoring, and sustainably managing nature around the world.

Segments

Protecting Our Planet

This segment highlights the need for bold ambition to scale up biodiversity protection to 30% of lands and waters by 2030. This segment features different approaches to land and water protection at different scales, from national parks to Indigenous and community conserved areas.

Restoring Our Planet

Restoring ecosystems is critical for our very survival, and will help ensure that we have clean water, safe communities, thriving biodiversity, and a livable planet. This segment explores how different actors around the world are becoming part of “Generation Restoration.”

Regenerative Agriculture

Transforming our land management into regenerative practices – practices that nourish and restore soil productivity – is the most essential step we can take to ensure food security for future generations. This segment explores different regenerative agricultural practices from around the world.

Regenerative Forestry

Restoring and sustainably managing forests is essential to life on Earth. This segment explores different pathways toward sustainable and regenerative forest management from a variety of perspectives.