Financing Nature-Based Solutions: From Ambition and Mandate to Investable
Nature is on every mandate and in every strategy deck. Yet the projects remain strikingly hard to find, and harder to underwrite once you do. Private capital is barely a tenth of the money flowing into nature, even as the need more than doubles by 2030.
Join us for the launch of Nature Value Pathways, an intimate evening, over drinks, during Climate Week, for the institutions serious about closing that gap: turning a category everyone wants exposure to into a pipeline they can actually underwrite, in a room of the people who can make it happen.
Come for the conversation. A short keynote, then a candid panel of senior voices across verification, deal structuring, and catalytic capital — including Michael Henry of Offset CRBN on the integrity side, with further speakers to be announced, moderated by Carlotta Franchin, Partner at Dara Strategies. We'll close with the first look at the platform we've built to make nature-based projects investable.
Relaxed by design: an early-evening apéritivo, drinks, canapés, and real conversation with the right people — rather than a conference. Doors from 6:15 and the programme begins at 6:45.
This is an invitation-only gathering. Places are limited and registration is subject to approval; the Midtown venue address is shared with confirmed guests.
We'd be glad to have you in the room.
Hosted by Nature Value Pathways
Nature Value Pathways applies AI to de-risk and scale financing for nature-based solutions across the full investment lifecycle — making projects findable, comparable, and bankable. https://www.naturevp.com/
Phuong Gomard, Founder - Former partner at Forvis Mazars, where she built the global sustainable finance practice and contributed to the FAST-Infra Sustainable Infrastructure Label; 20+ years advising financial institutions across the US, UK and Europe.
Carlotta Franchin, Partner, Dara Strategies - Structures blended finance and cross-sector capital partnerships at Dara Strategies; Senior Advisor to the $60M GEDI climate-resilience fund. Twenty years across EY, CIT Bank and Forvis Mazars.
Suma Swaminathan, Head of Private Equity, WaterEquity - She is the impact investment manager channelling institutional capital into water and sanitation across emerging markets. She leads the firm's private-equity investments in water and sanitation across both infrastructure and growth enterprises in emerging markets, structuring returns-with-impact capital to bring private investors institutional investment alongside domestic or development finance to address the challenges of access, quality and scarcity reduction.
Michael Henry, Founder, Offset CRBN - A deterministic AI verification infrastructure for environmental markets.A former Time Inc. journalist, he later co-founded and served as CMO of a blockchain company, helping lead it into the public markets. Sits on the executive committee of the Blockchain & Climate Institute, now DTID, where he supports strategic communications around its work in climate finance, ISO standards, policy and regulation, and emerging technology.