From Forests to Finance
Event: Roundtables & networking event
Date: 22 June 2026
Time: 2:00-6:30 PM
The frameworks exist, agreements are being signed, and capital is beginning to move. From Forests to Finance convenes African and Latin American jurisdictions — including the Amazon basin — with the capital financing nature at scale and asks what that capital ultimately delivers for climate, food security and resilience.
Since London Climate Action Week 2025, this conversation has travelled through Johannesburg, Seoul and Singapore, changing character along the way. Now that the architecture holds, the question shifts from integrity to execution: how do we scale the capital flowing through it? This event brings buyers, host governments and sub-national leaders across the table to work through what each side of the market now needs from the other — bankable demand signals, concessional capital, and frameworks that hold — before turning to the harder question of what nature finance is ultimately for.
Schedule
2:00 – 4:00 PM — Financing at Scale What proof-of-scale looks like for forest finance
The afternoon opens by taking stock of twelve months of movement, then turns to the hard question of execution: why supply still lags demand, and what it will take to close that gap at speed.
- 2:00 – 2:30 · Opening — A stock-take of what has genuinely progressed, and a framing of the afternoon's central question: now that the architecture holds, how do we scale the capital flowing through it?
- Panel · From Execution to Scale — Demand is hardening and supply is mobilising, but the two are not yet meeting at the scale, speed or price required. A working conversation putting buyers, host governments and sub-national leaders directly across the table on what turns a long-term offtake (CORSIA, Article 6) bankable, and what suppliers most need from demand-side capital that they are not yet getting.
- Closing interview · The Shape of Demand to Come — A fireside conversation on where structural forces are taking the market: JCM, CBAM, and the new demand channels now maturing.
4:00 – 5:00 PM — From Finance to Impact How nature delivers climate, food security and resilience
Carbon brought the capital into the room; this roundtable asks what that capital is ultimately for. Healthy ecosystems do not only store carbon — they regulate rainfall, sustain agriculture, conserve biodiversity and underpin millions of livelihoods. The Amazon is the clearest case: not a carbon project, but the infrastructure of regional stability. The challenge is to structure finance so it reaches the territories and communities able to deliver for both people and planet.