Biodiversity Credits, Current Challenges & Opportunities

This webinar explored the most recent challenges and opportunities of Biodiversity Credits as an innovative tool for financing nature. Each panelist shared their latest updates on the application of biodiversity credits and any advice they have for conservationists.

Speakers

• Sinclar Vincent, Verra

• Toral Shah, Plan Vivo Foundation

• Timothy Male, Environmental Policy Innovation Center

• Grégoire De Warren, International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits

Moderator

• David Meyers, Executive Director, Conservation Finance Alliance

The Business Case for HIFOR with WCS

This webinar introduced and explored the High Integrity Forest (HIFOR) Investment Initiative which aims to create a new climate and biodiversity asset class to help finance the protection of high integrity tropical forests — those that are least degraded by human impacts — on the basis of their role in climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. Can this new tradable asset incentivize the conservation of our last remaining high integrity forests? 

Speakers

• Daniel Zarin Head of Forests and Climate Change Program at WCS

• Ashley Camhi, Director of Innovative Finance, Forests and Climate at the Wildlife Conservation Society, WCS

• Charlotte Streck, Co-founder, Climate Focus

Moderator

• David Meyers, Executive Director, Conservation Finance Alliance