Accounting for Nature 2021 | Eco-Business | 31 August 2021 | Virtual
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| Event Date |
Tue Aug 31 +08 (over 3 years ago)
In your timezone (EST): Tue Aug 31 4:00am - Tue Aug 31 5:30am |
| Location | Virtual |
| Region | APAC |
Details
The UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) warns that humans are drawing down stocks of natural capital faster than it can renew itself. This continued trajectory without allowing for nature to recover and without corresponding investment in human and produced capital, poses a significant challenge to achieving poverty reduction and sustainable development objectives.
The urgent need to improve natural capital accounting and scale-up finance for nature has been reflected in a rapid increase in financial support focused on accounting for natural capital – from compensating with biodiversity offsets, developing natural infrastructure to investing in nature-based solutions. Not least the recent Taskforce for Nature Financial Disclosures (TNFD) as a market-led consortium to provide the global financial body with better tools to account for nature-negative outcomes.
Are these mechanisms truly helping to enhance biodiversity protection? How can we strengthen the case for the accounting of natural capital to be eventually recognised as a working standard that holds itself up to the financial community? What unique role does the Asian region play to further the business case for nature-based solutions?
We aim to to discuss challenges faced in the practice of natural capital accounting, explore how Asia can play a key role in scaling up nature-based solutions, and more.
This event is specially organised by Eco-Business, in partnership with the Regional Project Energy Security and Climate Change Asia-Pacific (RECAP) of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS).
Speakers
2021 Speakers
Gillian Parker
Assistant Editor, Eco-Business
Dr. Theresa Mundita Lim
Executive Director, ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity
Dr. Christian Hübner
Director of the Regional Programme Energy Security and Climate Change in Asia-Pacific of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation (KAS)
Dr Kim Schumacher
Lecturer in Sustainable Finance & ESG, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Dr Adrian Fenton
Vice President - Asia Sustainable Finance, WWF Singapore
Martine van Weelden
TEEBAgriFood Senior Manager, Capitals Coalition
Junice Yeo
Executive Director, Eco-Business
Sponsors & Partners
2021 Partners
PARTNER:
• Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
SUPPORTERS:
• Climate Action
• Partnerships for the Goals