Exploring High Impact Solutions to Scale Finance for Forests

​Join WWF and Emergent to showcase of the progress of two key initiatives focused on scaling funding for forests via high-integrity carbon markets – the LEAF Coalition, focused on accelerating finance at scale, and WWF’s Forest Forward and NbS archetypes initiatives, which have developed scalable models to ensure supply side integrity and inclusion.

​Speakers include:

• ​Gabriela Savian – Deputy Director Public Policy/IPAM Amazonia (Moderator)

• ​Sean Frisby, Head of partnerships, Emergent, coordinator of the LEAF Coalition

• ​Maggie Charnley, Head of the UK government's International Forests Unit

• ​Dr. Joseph Appiah-Gyapong, Head of Donor Relations and Projects Ghana Forestry Commission

• ​Ines Morales, Mayor Palenquera of CANE (Afro-Ecuadorian Leader)

• ​Damian Fleming, Senior Director Forests, WWF International

• ​Dr. Barbara Bomfim, NbS and Carbon Markets lead, WWF-Brazil

• ​Agnete Schoenau, Conservation Director, WWF-Denmark

• ​Dr. Thais Volpi, Special Advisor to the Technical Board of the Espirito Santo State Institute for the Environment and Water Resources (IEMA), Brazil 

​This event will take place in the COP30 Blue Zone and is open to all badge holders, no registration required. Equally, we cannot  guarantee entry to this event as it will be based on first come first serve basis.