Session 1: carbon & non-carbon investments
Recording of Session 1: carbon & non-carbon investments (Thursday, March 23, 3 – 4:30pm CET)
Watch the 1st session of the interactive online series on scaling finance for nature-based projects
During this session, organisations involved in financing, capacity-building, support, and match-making related to carbon and non-carbon investments presented their approaches and discussed 2 main questions:
- what makes nature-based projects funding-ready?
- how to best access and sustain financing?
Issues such as due diligence, monitoring, and transparency were also examined. The session ended with an interactive Q&A block and a discussion of the next steps for projects wishing to collaborate with the speakers or apply for funding.
See below the interesting line-up of speakers from Terraformation, Open Forest Protocol, GoodCarbon, EnverX, and Callirius.
Background
Taking into account the feedback we received from the explorer.land project stage at NOAH Zurich, the interactive online series on scaling finance for nature-based projects hosts investors, foundations, and advisory organizations who present their approaches and requirements.
Blueprints for making projects funding-ready, best practices in securing financing, and application processes will be discussed. All sessions are tailored towards the needs of project developers seeking funding to start or expand their operations.
Why participate?
- If you are a project developer, you will have the ability to interact with organizations directly funding or supporting projects. You will receive a concise yet comprehensive overview of their approaches and processes, as well as an outline of concrete next steps you could pursue.
- If you are an organization involved in funding or supporting nature-based projects, you will network with relevant actors and transparent nature-based projects. You will stay on top of current developments in nature financing and contribute to scaling it.
Hosts
Marco Rodzynek
Founder at NOAH Advisors Ltd. and NOAH Conference
Europes #1 Growth Capital Fundraising Platform and Conference for impactful, digital, and sustainable companies.
Alexander Watson
Co-founder and CEO at OpenForests explorer.land
explorer.land is a map portal to discover, connect to, and communicate impactful nature-based projects.
Speakers
Damien Kuhn
VP of Forestry Partnerships & Development at Terraformation
Seed to carbon forest accelerator
Seed to carbon: feasibility, training, funding, implementation.
Frederic Fournier
Founder and CEO at Open Forest Protocol
Accessing funding through independent monitoring
Registering, monitoring, and validating forest projects independently.
Aureline Grange
Co-founder and CCO at Open Forest Protocol
Accessing funding through independent monitoring
Registering, monitoring, and validating forest projects independently.
Dr. Nicola Rodewald
Director Nature-based Solutions at goodcarbon
NbS financial products & matchmaking
Assessing projects, creating NbS financial products, and matching projects to capital.
David Diallo
Founder and MD of goodcarbon
NbS financial products & matchmaking
Assessing projects, creating NbS financial products, and matching projects to capital.
Bela Gulacsi
Co-Founder & CEO at EnverX
Financing market-grade carbon projects
EnverX offers a simple and convenient platform to fund early-stage removal and reduction projects and trade future carbon credits.
Michael Grohmann
Managing Director at Callirius
Matching the needs of both project owners and institutional investors
Enabling tailor-made financing solutions through a data-driven, science-backed, and well-regulated framework.
Session 1: carbon & non-carbon investments
23 March, 3 pm CET
Learn what it takes to finance nature-based projects
Header photo by Edgar Castrejon on Unsplash
