Unlocking Finance for Nature: What is Needed to Make Natural Asset Companies an Investable Proposition?
This highly interactive, closed-door working session will move beyond an introduction to Natural Asset Companies (NACs), developed by Intrinsic Exchange Group (IEG), to explore what it will take to make the model investable and build a broader market.
The session will begin with a brief update on NACs (a new and emerging asset class in nature finance), where they fit within the broader nature finance landscape, the core NAC requirements and safeguards, the latest insights on emerging reporting standards in this space, investment facilities, and progress on the pipeline. Hand-selected participants with diverse expertise will then break into small working groups and dive into several “NAC case studies” to pressure-test the investment proposition and share lessons learnt from existing nature finance projects, to identify key challenges and broader conditions needed to build investor confidence and enable NACs to scale.
Participants will be expected to read and digest materials in advance of the session and come ready to roll up their sleeves and provide active input, challenge assumptions and share relevant experience.
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This event is part of the Nature Hub, convened by the Nature4Climate Coalition and KPMG. To learn more about the full-day programme, visit: Nature Hub at Climate Week NYC 2026.
TThe Nature Hub is also hosted by ACR, ART, aDRYADA, American Forest Foundation, Arbor Day Foundation, Arizona State University (ASU), Audubon, Beyond Alliance, BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group, Chloris Geospatial, CAFI, Conservation International, Forest & Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP), Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), IDH, Oceans 5/ORCA, Root Capital, Satelligence, Sustainable Forestry Initiative, The Nature Conservancy, Trust for Public Land, UNDP, UNEP-WCMC, UN-REDD, WCS, Weyerhaeuser, and Woodwell Climate.
The Nature Hub includes expertise and contributions from, CLUA, Interfaith Rainforest Initiative, LEAF Coalition/Emergent, SHIFT-CM, Yale University, WBCSD, Global Optimism, Tropical Forest Alliance, Tierra, Rockefeller Brothers Funds, Intrinsic Exchange Group, WRI, KFW DEG and Ocean and Climate Platform.