Understanding biodiversity credits as a new tool for conservation: Limits and opportunities

11/10/2025
11:00 - 12:30
CR A-B: Forum - Session Room 4 , Híbrido (presencial con transmisión en directo)
Sesión con interpretación

Por qué asistir

Join industry and conservation experts to discuss key issues and challenges of nature markets, high level principles, risks, concerns, and how they can be managed. Gain clarity on key concepts, explore interconnections, and advance your understanding of biodiversity credits as a tool to mobilize meaningful private sector contributions to conservation.

Descripción de la sesión

This session will foster collaboration, peer learning, and active dialogue, reflecting on and emphasizing the High Level Principles guiding biodiversity credit initiatives. We will explore progress in using biodiversity credits to finance restoration and conservation, exploring key themes such as:
The design and implementation of biodiversity credit schemes
The critical role of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, and ensuring legal and customary rights
The private sector’s engagement and responsibilities
Ensuring high-integrity principles, robust metrics, and transparent measurement
Understanding supply and demand dynamics in biodiversity credit markets
Contributions to global biodiversity targets


Using an interactive World Café format, participants will engage in small-group discussions to explore these topics in depth, encouraging diverse perspectives and actionable insights. Facilitators will include representatives from the Biodiversity Credits Alliance, International Environment Guardianship, Int’l Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits, WWF, Conservation International, IUCN, WBCSD, South Pole, and others.

Organised by
South Pole
Asociaciones
Commission on Ecosystem Management logo
Commission on Ecosystem Management
World Wide Fund for Nature - International ( Switzerland ) logo
World Wide Fund for Nature - International ( Switzerland )
Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères ( France )
Conservation International ( United States of America ) logo
Conservation International ( United States of America )
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Moderator

Understanding biodiversity credits as a new tool for conservation: Limits and opportunities

Speaker Manesh LACOUL

Understanding biodiversity credits as a new tool for conservation: Limits and opportunities

Speaker

Speaker Erika KOROSI

Senior Director Nature Markets

Understanding biodiversity credits as a new tool for conservation: Limits and opportunities

Speaker Steve EDWARDS

Co-Chair

Understanding biodiversity credits as a new tool for conservation: Limits and opportunities

Speaker Arthur PIVIN

Understanding biodiversity credits as a new tool for conservation: Limits and opportunities

Speaker Midori PAXTON

Director - UNDP Nature Hub

Understanding biodiversity credits as a new tool for conservation: Limits and opportunities