Name: Corporate Investments Into Forestry And Biodiversity Chicago
Start: 10/04/2024 01:00 PM +00:00
End: 11/04/2024 10:30 PM +00:00

We carry out high-impact Nature-Based Solution (NBS) projects that reduce the global carbon footprint, improve biodiversity, promote a sustainable economy, and support our customers in their achievement of the sustainability goals.

Carbon2Nature

Globe Underwriting

As a pioneer and nationally-recognized leader in the carbon market, The Climate Trust develops, manages and invests in US-based carbon offset projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
With over 20 years of technical expertise and extensive market experience, The Climate Trust develops offset projects at their critical early stages, and manages the projects until sale of offset credits. An understanding of carbon markets and underlying risks includes robust due diligence, working with mission-aligned partners and active project management.

The Climate Trust

Chestnut Carbon, a nature-based carbon removal developer, creates and maintains high-quality U.S. forestry projects that meet the most rigorous Gold Standard&reg; verification criteria. We help sustainability-focused customers meet their net-zero goals by adhering to the highest standards in today&rsquo;s markets.
Whether you&rsquo;re a discerning corporate customer seeking to offset your carbon footprint, or a landowner/land trust who wants to participate in the carbon credit market while conserving your lands, Chestnut Carbon can be your trusted long-term partner.

Chestnut Carbon

AFRY is a European leader in engineering, design, and advisory services, with a global reach. We accelerate the transition towards a sustainable society. We are 19,000 devoted experts in infrastructure, industry, energy and digitalisation, creating sustainable solutions for generations to come.

AFRY

Verra works to provide &ldquo;Standards for a sustainable future,&rdquo; that address pressing environmental and sustainable development issues. Through robust standards, we help accurately quantify benefits and drive investment in responsible, high-performing projects and programs. We work closely with partners in civil society, governments and the private sector to develop novel frameworks and enable results on the ground. Our flagship standard, the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program, is the longstanding leading standard in the voluntary carbon market.
Since our start in 2009, Verra has expanded our work into new arenas based on increasing demand for social and environmental standards. Today, a growing staff with operatives around the world manage our standards and programs, including the Climate, Community &amp; Biodiversity Standard, the Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard and the Landscape Standard. We consistently work with our partners to ensure that our existing and new requirements reflect the most current knowledge and global best practice. We are steadily expanding the scope of Verra to respond to the need for new, forward-thinking standards, with a focus on market-based, workable solutions to thorny social and environmental challenges.
Verra was originally founded by a collection of business and environmental leaders who saw a need for greater quality assurance in voluntary carbon markets. Our founding partners - The Climate Group, International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and The World Economic Forum - convened a team of global carbon market experts to draft the first Verified Carbon Standard requirements. World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) joined the effort soon after.

Verra

Space Intelligence is a NatureTech company enabling zero deforestation and mass restoration of biodiverse forests globally by providing the highest quality nature mapping data.
We combine our extensive expertise in remote sensing, data analytics, and forest ecology to provide highly accurate and comprehensive baseline reporting and dMRV solutions for forest carbon project developers and investors.
Our approach is rooted in science, with our co-founders leveraging over 30 combined years of academic and on-the-ground research to develop our products, which are used and trusted by some of the largest nature-based project developers and investors, including Apple, Equinor, and Shell.
Learn More at space-intelligence.com

Space Intelligence

We combine world-leading expertise in remote sensing, biogeochemical modelling, AI and carbon markets to provide a cutting edge analytics platform for carbon project developers and natural capital investors.
We cover all nature based solutions with current projects spanning forestry, regenerative agriculture, rice methane, grassland management and blue carbon.

Mantle Labs

<a href="https://www.earthblox.io/">Earth Blox</a> provides climate and nature analytics from satellite imagery to help businesses accelerate their sustainability transition. The software maps and analyses key metrics for biodiversity, water and carbon across forestry, agriculture, and financed and insured assets worldwide.
Modular blocks allow you to build customisable and repeatable analyses in minutes on the most authoritative global datasets from Earth Engine, IBAT, ICUN, Planet and other satellite data providers. Ownership and control of data inputs and methodologies give you full transparency in reporting to customers and stakeholders. The cloud-native, reactive and serverless architecture enables fast processing of petabytes of data for rapid analyses.
Our customers include Anew, Climate Impact Partners, ForestRe, Mercy Corps, Shell, South Pole and The Nature Conservancy. Earth Blox is a Google Cloud Advantage Partner, Earth Engine Expert, and a member of the TNFD (Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures) Forum.
The Earth Blox team includes world experts in radar, optical and lidar, and PhDs in data science, who are committed to accelerating and increasing the adoption of satellite imagery insights for the sustainability transition.

Earth Blox

FLINTpro is a software tool that empowers organisations to better understand and effectively manage land-sector greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. FLINTpro simplifies the processing of large and complex data sets, applies the latest scientific and analytical models, and runs advanced simulations. FLINTpro communicates the results in visually compelling ways to policy-makers, stakeholders and scientific program teams. &nbsp;
In summary, FLINTpro turns complex carbon science and data into easy to understand facts for positive climate action, land management, ESG reporting, and it can guide your land related investment decisions.
With FLINTpro you get carbon reports and detailed land related data analysis, plus calculation and prediction tools helping you to measure carbon emissions resulting from changes to land use, agriculture, forestry and even supply-chain.
FLINTpro empowers organisations to develop in-house capability and gain better control of the levers impacting their carbon footprint. &nbsp;Or, let our team of experts produce the reports and information you need to meet your company and regulatory requirements.&nbsp;
Fast track your #netzerocarbon journey today using FLINTpro.

FlintPro

Upstream Tech is a technology company that builds decision-making tools for environmental conservation to improve natural resource management. Our software products make cutting-edge remote sensing and machine learning technology accessible and easy to use, in order to accelerate the pace, scale, and impact of environmental work around the globe. Upstream Tech's products include Lens, a digital MRV platform that makes it easy to turn remote sensing data into decisions, and HydroForecast, a streamflow forecasting system that uniquely blends hydrologic theory with machine learning for accurate, safe, and efficient water resource management.&nbsp;
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Upstream Tech

Okala specializes in helping its customers (B2B and Governments) by measuring the biodiversity capital of their land using a unique, integrated approach that combines multiple sensor and sampling technologies (essentially camera trapping, bioaccoustic and eDNA). The Okala approach guarantees scientifically rigorous results that are comparable in time and space, while ensuring traceability and auditability. Furthermore, AI-led analytics tools developed by Okala are providing robust biodiversity indicators and reporting in weeks rather than years.
What's more, Okala's unique biodiversity dashboard connects stakeholders to their data, providing unrivalled transparency and marketing opportunities.
We see significant opportunities from compliance nature markets that need scalable, traceable solutions for measuring biodiversity impact and biodiversity accounting.

Okala

Pollination is a specialist climate change advisory and investment firm, solely focussed on accelerating the transition to a net zero, climate resilient future. The firm brings together the broad spectrum of capabilities required to unlock systemic change, including global leaders in finance, investment, business, technology, law, and policy. Around the world, Pollination works with clients across government, business, and public and private capital, helping them to navigate the climate transition, and is developing several net zero-focused investment platforms. In 2020, Pollination partnered with HSBC to launch Climate Asset Management, which aims to be the world&rsquo;s largest dedicated natural capital asset manager, committing to raising $6 billion over a series of funds.

Pollination

Everland represents the world&rsquo;s largest portfolio of high-impact, forest conservation (REDD+) projects that protect wildlife and enhance the well-being of forest communities. The company brings together forest communities and corporations in a common cause to protect some of the world&rsquo;s most important and vulnerable forests. REDD+ is an acronym for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, a UN-envisioned climate change mitigation strategy. When REDD+ projects prove they have successfully stopped deforestation, they generate Verified Emission Reductions (VERs, aka offsets or carbon credits) that can be sold to corporations who want to voluntarily offset their unavoidable emissions by supporting verified projects that stop forests from burning while delivering meaningful social and biodiversity co-benefits.

Everland

bp believes the world wants and needs a better and more balanced energy system that delivers secure, affordable and lower-carbon energy. They are playing their part by investing in today's energy system, which is mainly oil and gas &ndash; and, not or &ndash; in their transition and the energy transition. While today they're mostly in oil and gas, they increased the proportion of their global annual investment that went into their lower carbon &amp; other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. Increasing investment in these engines is a sign that bp&rsquo;s wider transformation is underway.

Upcoming Events:
Forestry &amp; Agriculture Investment Summit - 12th - 13th June - London FAIS helps investors understand how they should react to future challenges. The drive towards net zero is putting an even greater emphasis on investments into carbon accretive assets. View the agenda&nbsp;<a href="https://ce-em.com/events/all-events/fais-jun-24/">here</a>
Corporate Investments into Forestry &amp; Biodiversity - 2nd - 3rd October - London CIFB helps large scale corporations to develop a strategy on the value of investments in forestry and biodiversity, to reach a net zero future. View the agenda <a href="https://ce-em.com/events/all-events/cifb-oct-24/">here</a>
Investments into Forestry &amp; Biodiversity - 3rd - 4th December - Singapore IFB helps institutional investors and large corporations to develop a strategy for investments into forestry and biodiversity, to reach a net zero future, while at the same time producing positive financial returns. View the agenda <a href="https://ce-em.com/events/all-events/ifb-dec-24/">here</a>

CE-EM

<ul>
<li>Carbon returns over the long-term</li>
<li>Increasing asset values as the segment expands</li>
<li>Risks of emerging markets offset by higher returns</li>
<li>Stability of US &amp; Oceania</li>
</ul>

MaryKate Bullen

Victor Giraldo

Julius Pasay

Tom Hodgman

Bob Izlar

The Business Case for Forestry and Biodiversity Investments

<ul>
<li>What is high quality? Going beyond the must-have attributes</li>
<li>High quality NBS projects come at a cost &ndash; barriers and opportunities for their finance and development</li>
<li>Are buyers ready to pay for the premium? Pathways to a higher-quality voluntary carbon market</li>
</ul>

Jeffrey Brown

Mike Korchinsky

Miguel Angel Garcia Tamargo

Abraham Korman

Martin Baker

Ready to Pay for High-Quality?

Coffee Break

<ul>
<li>Strategies to scale: new methodological approaches and technologies</li>
<li>Funding mechanisms to move more projects faster</li>
<li>Ensuring integrity in ARR carbon projects</li>
</ul>

Spencer Plumb

Steve Gretzinger

Edit Kiss

Dick Cameron

Innovating New Approaches in Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation Carbon Projects

<ul>
<li>Global and US trends in climate events</li>
<li>Climate-related loss profile in forestry</li>
<li>Modelling financial impacts for disclosure</li>
<li>Risk transfer options</li>
</ul>

Phil Cottle

Climate-Related Financial Risks in NBS

Lunch

<ul>
<li>Incentives for businesses to be more active in the voluntary carbon market</li>
<li>Voluntary credits contribute to closing the finance gap for nature</li>
<li>The use of voluntary carbon credits and their role in &ldquo;reduce, restore &amp; remove&rdquo;</li>
</ul>

KyooWon Oh

Stéphane Hallaire

Shannon Smith

Kyler Sherry

James Kench

Angela Foster-Rice

Scaling the Demand for Natural Climate Solutions Voluntary Credits

<ul>
<li>What makes carbon markets work?</li>
<li>Examples of carbon market successes</li>
<li>Ensuring a carbon market is fit for purpose</li>
<li>Latest technologies and how those provide integrity of claims</li>
</ul>

Ellen Lourie

Uti Agarwal

Rick Saines

Christina Magerkurth

Araceli De Carlos Sebastián

The Future of Carbon Markets

BP, Pollination, &amp; Everland are hosting a drinks reception at The Hoxton hotel

Agenda

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Uti Agarwal

Jacek Siry

Victor Giraldo

Mike Parr

Stéphane Hallaire

Tina Morris

Shannon Smith

Kyler Sherry

Edit Kiss

Bob Izlar

MaryKate Bullen

Estelle Winkleman

Eve Boyce-Ratliff

Ellen Lourie

Genevieve Bennett

Sinclair Vincent