IFB Flagship Leader, Professor Richard Field from the University of Nottingham, chaired the session Building trust in biodiversity credits: metrics, measurements and comparability at COP16 in Cali, Colombia.
A video of the complete session is available here.
Richard was also a Chair, panelist, and invited participant in several side-events in both the ‘Blue Zone’ and the ‘Green Zone’, representing both IFB Flagship 3 and the Data, Tools and Metrics Theme.
- "Biodiversity credits! Why, how, now!" (panellist) Indigenous Peoples event organised by Savimbo, Jaguara, International Carbon Registry, Toha, EarthAcre, Climate Collective, FSC, Health in Harmony, Cercarbono, and Ecoregistry.
- Breakfast roundtable on nature finance, organised by Terrasos and including government ministers from Colombia and Brazil. Small group, invitation only.
- "Demystifing metrics for biodiversity credits". Event organised by the Nature Positive Initiative and WEF, invitation only. Small group discussions on key themes.
- "Tropical Forests and the emergence of Markets for Carbon and Biodiversity". Round-table focused on Measurement, Monitoring, Reporting and Verification for carbon and biodiversity markets in tropical forests, organised by the Smithsonian Small group, invitation only.
- "Embedding biodiversity into decision-making at every level", "Roundtable: Mobilising regenerative agriculture in Nature positivity", "Scaling the power of Nature across agricultural and urban environments". Events organised by the Sustainable Markets Initiative, and the final one hosted by Lloyds Banking Group. Limited group, invitation only.