Date & time: 10 June 2026, all day
Location: Banque de France | 31 rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs, 75049 Paris
Format: Workshop
Biodiversa+, together with Banque de France, the BiodivRestore Knowledge Hub, the French Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB), and the RESPIN project, is co-organising a high-level workshop on 10 June 2026 in Paris. The workshop is recognised as an EU Green Week 2026 partner event.
The workshop aims to strengthen the interface between science, policy, and finance, and to support the transition toward nature-positive financial systems, in line with growing European and global policy momentum.
It will bring together central banks, financial institutions, investors, researchers, European Commission representatives, and business coalitions. Discussions will focus on how scientific knowledge and emerging methodologies can help identify and manage nature-related risks, inform decision-making, and support the redirection of financial flows toward biodiversity-positive outcomes.
Why this workshop?
Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation are increasingly recognised as material nature-related risks to economic performance, financial stability, and long-term value creation. Yet, the persistent failure to account for nature, and to integrate its values into economic and financial systems, continues to drive ecosystem degradation and the decline of nature’s contributions to people, including essential ecosystem services.
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) provides a clear policy signal by calling on businesses and financial institutions to:
- assess and manage their impacts and dependencies on nature (Target 15);
- eliminate or reform incentives harmful to biodiversity (Target 18);
- mobilise, scale up, and redirect financial flows toward biodiversity-positive outcomes (Target 19).
Despite this momentum, financial flows remain insufficiently aligned with biodiversity objectives. A key barrier is the limited availability of decision-useful scientific reference points, including robust baselines, validated methodologies, spatial indicators, and clearer insights into systemic risks and trade-offs. These gaps make it difficult for public and private actors to effectively integrate biodiversity considerations into risk management, governance, and investment decisions.
Objectives
Drawing on recent assessments from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), including the Business and Biodiversity, Nexus, and Transformative Change assessments, the workshop will explore how science can better support financial and economic decision-makers.
The programme will combine plenary sessions with interactive discussions, inviting participants to:
- examine real-world constraints faced by financial actors,
- identify key decision bottlenecks,
- articulate priorities and needs for public research, and
- explore conditions that enable the uptake of scientific tools and approaches.
Breakout discussions will address themes such as restoration planning as a stress test for evidence gaps, modelling and methodological validation, the role of Indigenous and local knowledge, harmful incentives and financial misalignments, and emerging nature-related financial instruments, including nature credits.
The workshop will also contribute to ongoing international discussions on biodiversity and finance, including preparations for COP17 of the Convention on Biological Diversity, by highlighting opportunities to strengthen science-finance cooperation.
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome Coffee
09:30 – 09:40 Welcome Words, by Banque de France & Biodiversa+
09:40 – 10:00 Opening – Biodiversity as a decision and coordination challenge: From risk to action, by Claude Garcia (Bern University of Applied Sciences, CEO of LEAF Inspiring Change)
10:00 – 10:40 Keynote – IPBES assessments: what matters to decision-makers?, by Matt Jones (Chief Impact Officer at UNEP-WCMC, IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment Chair) & Diana Mangalagiu (Neoma Business School, IPBES Nexus Assessment Coordinating Lead Author)
- What risks are becoming financially material?
- Where are financial flows misaligned with system dynamics?
- What types of decisions cannot be taken without public science?
10:40 – 11:25 Roundtable: Central bank and international institution perspectives on nature-related risks for the private sector, with Ludivine Berret (Banque de France), Sophia Arlt (Deutsche Bundesbank) & Lylah Davies (OECD)
11:25 – 11:45 Break
11:45 – 12:45 Roundtable: How can science inform concrete decisions, risk management, and action?, with Natacha Boric (Finance for Biodiversity) & Camille Maclet (International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits)
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 Workshop session (for on-site participants only)
Thematic breakout discussions (indicative topics):
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge: this session will explore how Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge systems can be more systematically and credibly integrated into ESG frameworks and financial decision-making. It will address governance, finance and research collaboration mechanisms to support equitable partnerships, particularly across biodiversity-rich value chains. With expertise support from Judith Fisher (University of Western Australia, Former member of the IPBES task force on Indigenous and local knowledge systems) and Diana Mangalagiu (University of Oxford, IPBES Nexus Assessment Coordinating Lead Author).
- Harmful incentives and financial misalignments: this session will focus on economic and financial incentives that currently drive biodiversity loss, and how misaligned subsidies, market signals and investment structures can be reformed to better support nature-positive outcomes. With expertise support from Jennifer Hole (Conservation International) and Faryde Carlier (Conservation International).
- Modelling and methodological challenges: this session will examine the role of environmental-economic modelling and accounting frameworks in making biodiversity risks and dependencies more visible and decision-relevant for policy, finance and corporate strategy. With expertise support from Clément Feger (AgroParisTech).
- Nature credits and emerging instruments: this session will explore the emerging landscape of nature credits and related market-based mechanisms, focusing on their design, credibility, scalability and potential role in mobilising private finance for biodiversity restoration and conservation. With expertise support from Romain Julliard (National Museum of Natural History) and Dalia D’Amato-Pihlman (Finnish Environment Institute, RESPIN project).
- EU Nature Restoration Regulation: This session will provide an update on the implementation of the EU Nature Restoration Regulation and the broader Nature Restoration Plan process, with a focus on financing needs, mechanisms and opportunities for effective implementation at scale. With expertise support from Paola Lepori (ICLEI Europe) and Laura Puértolas (Albirem Sustainability, BiodivRestore Knowledge Hub).
16:00 – 16:20 Break
16:20 – 17:00 On the road to COP17: Presentation and discussion of a Business & Biodiversity brief developed with CO-OP4CBD to support EU and Member State negotiators
17:00- 17:45 Discussion and consolidation of a joint statement on nature-related financial risks
17:45- 18:00 Closing words, by the European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD)
18:00- 19:00 Cocktail
Please note that full in-person participation is by invitation only. If you are interested or would like additional information, feel free to contact constance.laureau@fondationbiodiversite.fr.
To make the event as inclusive as possible, plenary sessions will be available online. Click below to register for online access:
