From sovereign debt and resilience to artificial intelligence, bioeconomy and nature-related financial risk, NatureFinance will be in New York for Climate Week 2026, working with partners to advance practical solutions for bringing nature into economic and financial decision-making.
Across the week, our team will convene governments, financial institutions, investors and other partners, while contributing to discussions on some of the issues shaping NatureFinance’s work — including how resilience can be better reflected in sovereign risk, how technology and AI are changing nature-related dependencies, and how investment can help build more resilient bioeconomies.
Events hosted and co-hosted by NatureFinance
Financing the Forest Bioeconomy at Scale
Wednesday, 23 September | 11:10–12:30 | Nature Hub, KPMG Headquarters.
The forest bioeconomy can create economic value from standing forests and restored landscapes while supporting livelihoods, climate resilience and biodiversity. But moving from promising initiatives to commercial scale requires the right finance, infrastructure, markets and enabling conditions. Co-hosted by the Bioeconomy Challenge, Forest and Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP) and UNDP, this working roundtable will bring together leaders from government, finance, business and communities to explore what it will take to build investable forest bioeconomy value chains at scale — while maintaining ecological integrity, rights, inclusive livelihoods and local value creation. The discussion will help identify practical actions to increase finance mobilisation over the next 12 months.
Register by Friday, 18 September: https://luma.com/FinancingBioeconomy
Considering Nature and Water in the Tech Sector
Wednesday, 23 September | New York.
Hosted by TNFD, Nasdaq and NatureFinance, this invite-only roundtable will explore how nature and water-related issues are emerging across technology-sector operations and supply chains, how organisations are addressing these risks and what investors are looking for from the sector. Invitation only.
SovTech Design Sprint
Wednesday, 23 September | 14:00–15:00 | New York.
NatureFinance and Teal Insights will convene sovereign debt professionals to explore how modern software and carefully validated AI can improve sovereign debt analysis. The invite-only session will showcase emerging tools for debt sustainability analysis, sovereign bond research and debt transactions, followed by an interactive discussion on where technology can make sovereign finance more effective. Invitation only.
NatureFinance speaking at NYCW
17 Rooms Community Gathering
Sunday, 20 September | 12:30–17:00 | The Rockefeller Foundation, New York.
Julie McCarthy, CEO of NatureFinance, will join Ani Dasgupta, President and CEO of the World Resources Institute (WRI), for a conversation on nature and the post-2030 agenda, moderated by Zia Khan, former Senior Vice President for Innovation at The Rockefeller Foundation. The discussion is part of the 17 Rooms Community Gathering, convened by the Brookings Institution and The Rockefeller Foundation.
Making Resilience Count in Sovereign Debt and Credit Profiles
Wednesday, 23 September | 12:00–13:30 | New York.
How can investments in adaptation, nature and resilience be better reflected in sovereign risk and credit profiles? Arend Kulenkampff, Innovative and Sovereign Finance Lead at NatureFinance, will join government and finance leaders to explore this question, drawing on emerging evidence from Uganda and Zambia.
Can Bioinputs Break Synthetic Fertiliser Dependency? The Global South Case for Investment, Resilience and Scale.
Wednesday, 23 September | 15:00–17:00 | New York.
Julie McCarthy, CEO of NatureFinance, will join a discussion on the potential for bioinputs to reduce dependence on synthetic fertilisers while strengthening productivity, resilience and food security, and what it will take to mobilise investment and scale.
Open to all | Register here: https://luma.com/qyvwajsz
