VALUING NATURAL CAPITAL CONFERENCE 2022
NEW IDEAS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
21 September 2022 - 09:00 AM (CET)
Natural resources are a gamechanger in the fight against climate change. The VNC conference 2022 organized by Geneva Macro Labs together with its strategic partners ILO, UNITAR, UNCDF, key researchers from Harvard University’s Department of Economics and supported by ServiceNow. focuses on promoting innovative scalable financial solutions and governance mechanisms to value natural capitals. The one-day event features renowned keynote speakers, in-depth and interactive panel discussions. It will be followed by a two-day training session that allows a deeper dive into the topics discussed during the conference.
Auditorium:
Keynote Speakers
Panel 1:
Economic and ecological significance of natural capital and biodiversity
Topic: Economic and ecological significance of natural capital and biodiversity
Description: The panel of the first break-out session provides an overview of different use cases for natural capital.
Panel 2:
Governance issues for conservation of natural resources
Topic: Governance issues for conservation of natural resources
Description: The second break-out session provides an overview of current governance mechanisms to protect and restore ecological system, their effectiveness and shortcomings and possibilities to use technological solutions to improve them. The session will also highlight factors that contribute to effective governance of natural resources.
Panel 3:
Financial Mechanisms and Issues
Topic: Financial Mechanisms and Issues
Description: This break-out session covers a lot of ground, including DeFisolutions to value natural capital, international agreements/ solutions to link carbon trading markets with natural capital in different jurisdictions, international insurance/re-insurance systems as alternative financial incentive instruments (e.g., risk premia to cover whale ship strikes), Greener macro policies (Sovereign Climate Fund, green bonds)
Panel 4:
Good for Government, Good for People, Good for the Environment
Topic: Good for Government, Good for People, Good for the Environment
Description: This panel is dedicated to discuss how to align ecological, economic and social objectives through valuing natural capital. Clean air – a core human need – requires novel carbon capture capabilities and advanced green technology to yield the net benefits of a more educated and healthier workforce; a workforce that can work longer and happier. The purpose of this panel will be to examine three (3) uses cases concerning Rwanda, Brazil, and India’s state of play relative to ecological imperatives facing their countries’ populations and labor force.
VALUING NATURAL CAPITAL
Trainig sessions
Training 1:
Natural capitals and their
governance mechanisms
(hybrid)
Understanding the limits of our ecosystems is critical for us to ensure their long-term supply. Governance solutions are therefore to be built on a number of inter-connected factors which help to bring science and technology together, while respecting human rights.
Lead by Dr Ralph Chami (IMF, Blue Green Future, Rebalance Earth)
Lead by Dieter Brockmeyer (Diplomatic World Institute) and Dr Jörn Erbguth (Gemlabs)
Training 2:
Tokenization, what it is and how it can be
used to value natural capital
Tokenization and Blockchain can be underpinning technology capabilities to completely rewire global finance and use cases around natural capital valuations. Blockchain has been praised as the new miracle technology, has been criticized as a tool for money laundering and darknet trade and has a huge climate impact. How can it serve as a sustainable tool for valuing natural capital? To understand the real strengths of this technology and how to avoid its pitfalls, this training starts by introducing Blockchain and Tokenization.
Training 3:
Tokenization, what it is and how it can be
used to value natural capital
Tokenization and Blockchain can be underpinning technology capabilities to completely rewire global finance and use cases around natural capital valuations. Blockchain has been praised as the new miracle technology, has been criticized as a tool for money laundering and darknet trade and has a huge climate impact. How can it serve as a sustainable tool for valuing natural capital? To understand the real strengths of this technology and how to avoid its pitfalls, this training starts by introducing Blockchain and Tokenization.
Lead by Dieter Brockmeyer (Diplomatic World Institute) and Dr Jörn Erbguth (Gemlabs)
Lead by Massamba Thioye (UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub)
Training 4:
Innovative finance for transformative
climate solutions
Where do we stand in regards to green bond frameworks and what can be learnt from a UNFCCC perspective? How to best bridge between supply and demand for climate solutions?
This training will discuss in detail the development of a financial instrument that enable to meet these conditions, a Mitigation Outcome Security which is to the green bond what the Renewable Electricity Certificate is to the green electricity. The new financial instrument will lead to an integration of the green bond and the carbon market, with financiers playing a greater role on the later, through the trading of the Mitigation Outcome Securities.
