COP 16 | Nature-Positive Infrastructure: Designing and financing the foundation for our future

In this session hosted by the Infrastructure and Nature Coalition, leaders in conservation, economic development, finance, business, and government will share their insights and practical examples of how addressing a suite of Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) targets - in combination - is the best way to generate the sustainable infrastructure of our future.

The panel will examine the practical advances and complex challenges of mainstreaming biodiversity into this vast sector and engage the audience in a dialogue that draws upon participant questions and shared examples. They will also explore an idea broached by Parties at the last Subsidiary Body on Implementation meeting - to develop a community of practice that can consolidate these streams of action and innovation into accessible capacity building platforms. Is this feasible, desirable or practical? What other ways can we work together to build the enabling environment for nature-positive infrastructure development?

With a global shift in the norms and practices of this highly impactful sector, we can ensure the successful delivery of the KMGBF and forge a path to restoring the beauty and bounty of this extraordinary planet Earth.

The program is aimed at supporting the deliberations on COP16 Agenda item 17 on "Mainstreaming of biodiversity within and across sectors", Agenda item 12 on capacity building and development, technical and scientific cooperation…, and Agenda item 18 on diverse values of biodiversity.