Session 4: Mobilising finance for forests and nature for delivering on climate and biodiversity objectives
Jul 3, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PMAuditorium
Jul 3, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Auditorium
Description
As the world gears up for COP30 in Belem, how to scale-up finance for and investment in forests and
nature has become a core focus of climate policy discussions. Forests provide several ecosystem
services that are largely unpriced (e.g. carbon storage and sequestration, biodiversity conservation,
protection of soils and water quality).
As a result, investments that enhance and protect forests are at a disadvantage compared to investments that put these benefits at risk. While a wide range of tools have been developed in recent years in order to better price these positive externalities (e.g. REDD+
payments and carbon credits for climate action and payments for ecosystem services, biodiversity
offsets etc.), several challenges to their scale-up remain.
This session will explore the challenges, best practises and innovative financing instruments in mobilising finance for sustainable forest management through better pricing of their climate mitigation impact.
The session will examine the viability of different instruments and their specific challenges, such as assessing the integrity, effectiveness and additionality of actions promoted through such instruments, and ensuring the permanence of such impacts.
