From Margins to Markets: Financing Wetland Resilience at Scale
Wetlands - from freshwater marshes and floodplains to coastal mangroves and seagrass beds - are among the most powerful yet undervalued tools for building climate adaptation and resilience.
Despite protecting hundreds of millions of people from floods, droughts and storm surges, and storing vast quantities of blue carbon, wetlands remain largely absent from emerging voluntary carbon and adaptation credit markets.
This event brings together leading voices from finance, conservation and the private sector to explore how adaptation and resilience credits can unlock new flows of private and public finance for wetland conservation and restoration at scale.
Speakers will examine the African Development Bank's Adaptation Benefit Mechanism as a model for crediting adaptation outcomes, the growing role of the private sector in financing wetland resilience, and the emerging partnerships built by BirdLife International on nature-positive investment through flyway initiatives. This moderated panel discussion will explore what it will take to move from pilot projects to a functioning market for wetland adaptation credits, and who needs to do what to get there.
This event will be followed by tea and coffee until 3 p.m.
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BirdLife International is the only global Partnership conserving birds and all life on our planet. It exists to give one voice to nature, and to unite and strengthen conservation across borders. BirdLife International is made up of over 120 conservation organisations around the world and a Global Team. They work side by side, tackling some of the natural world’s most pressing issues.
This event is one of a three-part series taking place on Wednesday 24th June, titled 'A view from the brink – building climate resilience through nature - from community work and local conservation leadership to innovative finance and international markets - what and who is needed for real impact'. For information on and registration for the other events in this series, please see here.