​Additional Sessions

​For years, nature-based assets have been treated as a compliance line item — something companies buy to offset emissions, not something investors hold to build wealth. That's changing. As regulatory frameworks mature and environmental markets deepen, nature-based solutions are increasingly being structured and underwritten in ways that resemble conventional infrastructure: durable, regulation-backed demand, contracted cash flows, and long-duration returns.

​But underwriting nature like infrastructure requires solving two problems most investors haven't fully confronted. First, a carbon credit only prices one thing an acre does — it says nothing about the water it stores, the biodiversity it supports, or the soil health it rebuilds. Full-value underwriting means learning to price nature as a stack of ecosystem services, not a single commodity, and building the standards and data to make that pricing credible to buyers. Second, the supply behind these assets has an origin story that matters to durability: a growing share of high-quality nature-based assets comes from regeneratively repurposed farmland — marginal, flood-prone, or economically depleted acres that landowners convert to forest for a new, decades-long income stream.

​This session connects all three threads — sourcing, valuation, and institutional underwriting — to examine what it actually takes to move nature from an offset line to a balance sheet holding: how investors evaluate counterparty risk and cash-flow durability on land-based assets, how full-value pricing changes the underwriting math, and why the next generation of institutional-grade nature assets may be built from farmland most investors have never thought to look at.

​The Natural Capital Investment Summit

​Nature-based solutions have moved from environmental afterthought to investment thesis — but the market building around them is still being defined in real time. Capital gaps remain in the hundreds of billions of dollars annually, institutional investors are asking harder questions about durability and integrity, and the standards meant to underpin trust are evolving as fast as the deals themselves.

This isn't a forum about why nature matters — that conversation is over. It's a forum about how capital, technology, and standards come together to finance nature's restoration at the scale the moment demands. Held during Climate Week NYC, it's built for investors, developers, and policymakers ready to move from commitment to deployment.