Just as carbon credits help fund carbon reduction initiatives, biodiversity credits are increasingly being piloted as a market-based solution to drive finance towards biodiversity conservation. The discussions addressed the potential benefits of marine biodiversity credits.
David Meyers, Executive Director, Conservation Finance Alliance, and Senior Technical Advisor, is part of that discussion.
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
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
