CDP at COP17
Join CDP at COP17 in Yerevan, Armenia, to learn how CDP data can help drive investment decisions and value chain resilience, as well as where this data can help implement enhanced national strategies via a whole-of-economy approach, thus unlocking critical finance.
Building the Global Baseline: Implementing Target 15 of the GBF and the Future of Nature-related Disclosure
Date and time: Friday October 23, 16:30 to 17:30 (AMT)
Venue: COP 17 Blue Zone, NPI Pavilion
Nature-related disclosure continues to evolve rapidly as market practices, frameworks, and standards work together. Drawing on the work of the TNFD and market practice, the IFRS Practice Statement on Nature-related Disclosure Exposure Draft presents a pivotal opportunity to bring nature into the global baseline for corporate reporting and accelerate the implementation of GBF Target 15. This session brings together key stakeholders to explore the exposure draft, review market progress, and discuss how greater coherence, shifting data needs, and practical application can drive decision-useful reporting and foster widespread market adoption.
This event will be followed by a networking drinks reception, which will close at 19:30.
From Assessment to Ambitious Action: Delivering Against the Nature-Positive Transition
Date: Sunday October 25, 09:30 to 10:30 (AMT)
Venue: COP 17 Blue Zone, NPI Pavilion
Businesses, financial institutions and governments increasingly recognize nature as central to resilience and long-term value. This closed-door discussion will examine how to move from assessment to implementation through transition planning, science-based targets, finance and coordinated action in a roundtable discussion format.
Launching Recommendations to Scaling Nature in Transition Planning: A new network design
Date: Thursday, October 22, 18:00 to 19:00 (AMT)
Venue: COP 17 Blue Zone, Netherland Pavilion
What needs to happen for nature in transition planning to move from emerging practice to widespread adoption?
Join WWF, CDP and partners for the launch of recommendations developed by the Informal Working Group on Nature in Transition Planning. The session will present practical findings on enabling and scaling nature in transition planning – including recommendations for the creation of a future network for nature in transition planning to support coordination, interoperability and implementation beyond COP17.
For more information, please contact scott.twigg@cdp.net.
Bridging Public-Private Data to Accelerate Biodiversity Action
Date: Monday, October 26, 10:30 to 11:45 (AMT)
Venue: COP17 Blue Zone, Data Pavillion
COP17 will set the stage for the first, comprehensive Global Review – a critical litmus test of collective progress of action for biodiversity. The IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment, published in early 2026, affirmed that all businesses depend on and impact biodiversity and can be agents of positive change. This is also recognized in the Target 15 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, and the positioning of the KMGBF as a whole-of-society framework. But how does corporate information help to implement and monitor countries' progress on NBSAPs?
The event will showcase analysis on Target 15-aligned disclosures across geographies, and examples of partnerships, such as in Japan and the UK, as pathways to enact data from non-state actors – such as companies, financial institutions and cities – for implementation and monitoring of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs). The event will demonstrate the role of data in connecting and coordinating action across markets and policy, through a whole-of-economy and whole-of-society approach in tackling nature and biodiversity loss, and support mobilising the critical resource needed to do so.
If you are interested in attending or have any questions about this event, please email Clare.everett@cdp.net.
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