Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems Summit

This session will explore the need to increase the role of science in mitigating financial risk and catalysing capital flows towards nature-based solutions (NBS). We will also explore the increasing importance of including natural capital related financial flows when financially structuring NBS and sustainable agricultural supply chains.

The session is comprised of the following topic areas:

• The role of Science-based monitoring, reporting and verification tools and methods, such as geospatial analytics to collect and present project and asset level impact data to investors and drive decision making at the farm level. How these tools and methods could empower agribusiness supply chains to conserve forests, farmlands and biodiversity and therefore mitigate financial risk.
• Case studies of innovative financial instruments, such as sustainability performance linked bonds, in raising capital for landscape level NBS.

The session will address a number of cross-cutting themes, i.e. supply chain security, impact measurement and management, risk mitigation and cost of capital, regulation and disclosure.