CBD COP16: Catalysing nature’s US$7 trillion turnaround – introducing The Little Book of Nature Business

The UN’s State of Finance for Nature report highlights – at minimum – a US$7 trillion financing gap for nature. Global Canopy, in partnership with Cornell University, is developing a pioneering framework for nature-related opportunities to start closing this gap and implementing a big turnaround for nature. The framework will be featured in the Little Book of Nature Business, due for release in 2025. In this event, the research team driving this held a interactive fishbowl discussion on the planned framework content.

Speakers included:

• John Tobin – Professor of Practice at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University
• Nadine McCormick – Senior Manager at WBCSD
• Neha Dutt – Policy Lead, Greening Finance at UK Government (DEFRA)
• Oliver Withers – Head of Nature at Standard Chartered Bank
• Paulina Villalpando – Associate Director, Nature at HSBC
• Simon Zadek – Co-Chief Executive Director at Nature Finance

The event was moderated by Andrew Mitchell – Founder and Senior Advisor of Global Canopy.