10/10/2025
16:00 - 17:00
Nature Positive Initiative
Session with interpretation
Why attend
The Verifiable Nature Unit: Join us as we explore how to move from pilot to practice — How a standardised, outcomes-based approach can unlock public and private capital for nature, and what’s needed to take it further.
Session Description
The Verifiable Nature Unit (VNU) is a standardised and independently verified outcomes-based funding mechanism that measures nature outcomes linked to ecosystem integrity. It underpins a range of nature finance instruments, including bonds, debt-for-nature swaps, grants, credits, nature-linked equity, PES schemes, and compliance markets. This panel, a follow-up to COP16, will reflect on progress made in developing the VNU approach, applying use cases, and lessons from initial pilot issuances. We’ll also explore what’s needed to make the VNU more accessible and investable—ultimately enabling more diverse capital to flow toward the protection and restoration of natural capital.Organized by
Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy