From Forests to Finance Event

You are warmly invited to From Forests to Finance, an afternoon convening African and Latin American jurisdictions —including the Amazon basin — with those deploying capital into nature at scale.

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The conversation around nature finance has matured considerably. Since London Climate Action Week 2025, it has travelled through Johannesburg, Seoul and Singapore, shifting from questions of integrity to questions of scale. With the core architecture mostly in place, the focus turns to the hard practicalities of carbon markets: firm demand commitments, concessional capital, and the offtake structures that suppliers need to move at speed.The afternoon brings buyers, host governments and sub-national leaders across the table to work through what each side of the market needs from the other — before turning to what healthy ecosystems, and the communities within them, actually need from that finance.

The frameworks exist, agreements are being signed, and capital is beginning to move. From Forests to Finance convenes African and Latin American jurisdictions — including the Amazon basin — with the capital financing nature at scale and asks what that capital ultimately delivers for climate, food security and resilience.

Since London Climate Action Week 2025, this conversation has travelled through Johannesburg, Seoul and Singapore, changing character along the way. Now that the architecture holds, the question shifts from integrity to execution: how do we scale the capital flowing through it? This event brings buyers, host governments and sub-national leaders across the table to work through what each side of the market now needs from the other — bankable demand signals, concessional capital, and frameworks that hold — before turning to the harder question of what nature finance is ultimately for.

Programme

2:00 – 4:00 PM — Financing at scale: What proof-of-scale looks like for forest finance. The afternoon opens by taking stock of twelve months of movement, then turns to the hard question of execution: why supply still lags demand, and what it will take to close that gap at speed.

• 2:00 – 2:30 · Opening: A stock-take of what has genuinely progressed, and a framing of the afternoon’s central question: with the core architecture mostly in place, what are the remaining bottlenecks keeping capital from flowing at scale?
• 2:30-3:30 Panel · From Execution to Scale: Demand is solidifying and supply is mobilising, but the two are not yet meeting at the required scale, speed or price. A working conversation putting buyers, host governments and sub-national leaders directly across the table on what makes a long-term offtake agreement (CORSIA, Article 6) bankable, and what suppliers most need from demand-side capital.
• 3:30-4:00 Closing interview · The Shape of Demand to Come: A fireside conversation on where structural forces are taking the market: CORSIA, Article 6, VCM, CBAM, and the new demand channels now maturing.

4:00 – 5:00 PM — Financing nature for climate, food security and resilience Carbon markets play a critical role in mobilizing investment for forests. Healthy ecosystems generate value across climate, food systems, water, biodiversity and resilience, creating benefits that extend across economies and societies. As recognition of these interconnected benefits grows, this roundtable will explore how governments, financial institutions, markets and local actors can connect these sources of capital to scale investment in the landscapes and communities that deliver impact for people and planet.5:00 -6:30 PM — Networking drinks