Agenda

Registration

High-level Opening Plenary: Making the connections between funds, farms and forests

Expert Clusters: Tools and Trends

• Connecting financial tools and landscapes: Aggregators and strategic interventions

  Room: Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall

• Diversifying financial instruments to realize REDD+

  Room: Kohn Centre

• Financial system innovations – how block-chains, mobile banking and the Internet of Things impact landscapes

  Room: Wolfson Library Room 1

• Thinking Medium before we think Big: the role of Program Related, Angel and Venture Capital in financing landscape start-ups

  Room: Wolfson Library Room 2

• Risk reduction measures for private sector investment in landscape restoration

  Room: Conference Room

Lunch and Knowledge Sharing Activities

Case Studies: Investments on the ground

• Catalysing financial sector involvement in deforestation-free supply chains

  Room: Kohn Centre

• Smallholder finance – evidence from the tropics

  Room: Wolfson Library Room 2

• Removing barriers for investing in landscape restoration – what works where?

  Room: Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall

• Mapping the legal and policy landscapes for investments in Africa

  Room: Wolfson Library Room 1

Coffee and Knowledge Sharing Activities

Dragons’ Den: Pitching new investment opportunities

Breakout sessions: Drilling down on investment opportunities

• The Land Degradation Neutrality Fund

  Room: Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall

• Sustainable Ocean Fund

  Room: Wolfson Library Room 1

• Sustainable Cocoa in the Dominican Republic

  Room: Kohn Centre

Closing Plenary: Strategic interventions for scaling up and de-risking landscape finance

Cocktail and Networking