IFB Flagship Leader, Professor Richard Field of University of Nottingham, is today hosting the second Biodiversity Credit Alliance/University of Nottingham Theory of Change Workshop. This workshop is a key component of IFB Flagship 3 – Financing Biodiversity.

This event follows the first workshop in January 2024 that focused on IFB Phase I outputs. 

Today’s event is followed tomorrow by a Biodiversity Credit Alliance (BCA) Task Force meeting to identify strategies for the coming 1-5 years. These will be heavily influenced by the outcomes of today’s workshop.  This is only the second full, in-person meeting of the BCA Task Force.

Those expected to attend include –

  • UNDP – United Nations Development Programme (Secretariat of BCA)
  • UNEP-FI – United Nations Environment Programme-Finance Initiative (also Secretariat)
  • Bloom Labs (interested party)
  • CAF – Latin American and Caribbean Development Banks (Donor)
  • Carbone4 (BCA Task Force)
  • Conservation International (BCA Task Force)
  • Defra – representing the International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits (IAPB) as Secretariat of IAPB
  • Environment Bank (interested party)
  • Environmental Policy Innovation Center (BCA Task Force)
  • EU – European Union (Donor)
  • GFI (interested party)
  • GIZ – German sustainable development organisation (Donor)
  • IAPB panel member
  • ICROA/IETA (interested party)
  • IEG – International Ecosystem Guardians – Indigenous group (BCA Task Force)
  • International Institute for Environment and Development (interested party)
  • LIFE Institute  (interested party)
  • NTT DATA (interested party)
  • Plan Vivo (BCA Task Force)
  • rePlanet (BCA Task Force)
  • South Pole (interested party)
  • Terrasos (BCA Task Force)
  • UBS (interested party)
  • University of Nottingham (BCA Task Force)
  • VCMI (interested party)
  • WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCA Task Force)
  • World Bank (interested party)
  • WWF (interested party)

Using the opportunity provided by the in-person Flagship 3 Workshop and Task Force meetings, two of the current Working Groups of the BCA have, and will, meet. Yesterday, in Geneva, the Demand Integrity Working Group met, and in Lausanne on Thursday 6th, the Task Force’s new Metrics and Measurement Working Group. This group is led by IFB Theme Leader, Professor Franzi Schrodt, also of the University of Nottingham.

A report of the Biodiversity Credit Alliance/University of Nottingham Theory of Change Workshop will be published in the near future.