08.30

Registration & welcome coffee

09.00

Chair’s opening remarks

09.10

Keynote Address
Protecting Critical Biodiversity and Ecosystems: Policies and Regulations
Fabio Feldmann, Author and Inaugural President, National Environment Commission of Brazil and Former National and State Secretary of Environment

The Biodiversity & Ecosystem Challenge
This session will explain how biodiversity and ecosystem services function and why it is important for the financial services and corporate sectors to get involved in these early market stages. The opportunities and risks will be examined as well as the current state of the market in Latin America.

09.30

Understanding the Biodiversity & Ecosystem Market

• What are biodiversity and ecosystem services?
• Why are they important?
• What do the private and public sectors need to know?

Scientific Concerns: Rachel Biderman, Coordinator Center for Sustainability Studies, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (GVces)

Industry Concerns: Adalgiso Telles, Marketing Director, Bunge & Member of the Council, Sustainable Planet

10.10

The Business Case for Biodiversity Payments in Financial Services

• What is the business case?
• Do investors really consider biodiversity and ecosystems?
• Opportunities and roles for different stakeholders

Careen Abb, Latin American Task Force Coordinator, UNEP FI*

10.30

Interactive Discussion

10.45

Networking refreshment break 

What Stage Have Finance Sector Investments Reached?
In this session investors from the banking sector and other experts will review the current status of the market.

11.15

Minimising Legal  Risk for Investors

Werner Grau Neto, Partner, Pinheiro Neto Adgogados

11.35

Panel Discussion: What Stage Have Finance Sector Investments Reached?

• How do we develop the finance sectors involvement further?
• Understanding the risks and opportunities for financial institutions?
• What returns on investment can be generated? 
• Why the market is moving from a risk orientated approach to an opportunity orientated one?

Adriana Moreira, Senior Environment Specialist, World Bank
Daniela Mariuzo, Corporate Social Responsibility, Rabobank
Catherine Cruveillier Cassagne, Programme Manager, Biodiversity Environment and Social Development Department, IFC, USA

12.15

Networking Lunch Break 

Establishing a Regional Market: Beyond Individual Actions to Collective Progress
This session will look at what market mechanisms and infrastructure are needed to move from individual efforts to collective progress in conservation. The session will cover the key issues in relation to determining, measuring and monitoring the value of biodiversity. We will then turn to the infrastructure needs of the market and how standards and registries ensure that offsets created are trusted and tradable and provide transparency and credibility in the market.

13.30

How to Evaluate the Net Value of Biodiversity

• Measurement and verification
• Development and infrastructure impacts

Beatriz Bulhões, Biodiversity Technical Chamber, Conselho Empresarial Brasileiro para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável

13.50

Eco-Efficiency Impact Analysis

• How to measure industry impacts on biodiversity

Sonia Chapman, Fundação Espaço Eco, BASF

14.10

Case Study: Measurement and Data Collection in the JUMA Preservation Area
Senior Representative, Marriott Hotels

14.30

Interactive Discussion

14.45

Registry Infrastructure in the Development of Ecosystem Markets

• Why are registries important and how and where do they fit in the market?
• What do registries offer to developers and buyers alike?
• The development of community and biodiversity standards at registries
• Where do we go from here?

Helen Robinson, Chief Executive Officer, TZ1 Registry

15.10

Networking Refreshment Break

Opportunities and Developments in Industry
This session will review which sectors and businesses can take advantage of these services. Understanding the roles of those companies that impact biodiversity and ecosystem services directly; those that impact it in their supply chain and those whose business directly relies on the biodiversity or ecosystem service in question.

15.40

Generating Revenue through Bundling Ecosystem Services

• Bio Assets aims to reforest part of its land holdings, while trying to maintain forest cover on the larger remaining land area
• Selling CERs, REDD and biodiversity credits rather than timber
• Understanding the commercial viability of the operation - can this business model be reapplied in other areas and circumstances?

Chan Lap Tak, Director, Bio Assets

16.00

Valuing Rainforests as Global Eco-Utilities

• Build networks and capacity to investigate a new Payment for Ecosystem Services mechanism
• Regional to global ecosystem services provided by the hydrological cycle of Amazonia
• Identifying potential sources of revenue to forest owning nations

Chan Lap Tak, Director, Bio Assets
Andrew Mitchell, Executive Director, Global Canopy Programme

16.20

Closing Discussion

17.00

Close of Seminar

Industry Area %

Job Title Area %

Banks & Investors 23

General Management 26

Conservation Groups 21

Board Level & CEO 19

Environmental Consultants 12
Oil, Gas & Mining 8

Programme Managers & Biodiversity Specialists 15

Universities 9

Policy & Advisory 12

Governmental & Policy 9

Managing Directors 9

Other Corporates 6

Consultants & Analysts 9

Environmental Funds 5

Technical, Research & Scientists 6

Press 4

Press 4

Forestry Management 2

Associations 1