Enhancing Investment in Soil Health and Carbon Storage: Frontiers for Linking Finance and Carbon Accounting

When:
September 10, 2020 @ 10:00 am – 1:15 pm
2020-09-10T10:00:00-04:00
2020-09-10T13:15:00-04:00
Where:
Webinar
Cost:
Free
This webinar aims to support investment promoting soil health and carbon storage by improving accounting for soil carbon sequestration. Emerging technologies and innovation are enabling lower cost accounting that could help investors better demonstrate performance toward climate and soil health impacts. Unlocking finance to better support soil health and carbon sequestration could be transformative for food systems and the climate.

The event will bring together leading expert investors and donors with soil carbon accounting and implementing organizations, to share experiences and develop solutions for enhanced investment and SOC accounting.
Panel speakers* | 10 September, 10am-1:15pm EDT
 | Session 1 – The need for soil carbon accounting Identify needs of finance community and issues in linking finance and soil carbon accounting
| Ciniro Costa Jr., CCAFS
| Deborah Bossio, The Nature Conservancy
| Martien van Nieuwkoop, World Bank
| Keith Paustian, Colorado State University
| Session 2 – Soil carbon accounting frontiers Learn from emerging experiences linking investment and soil carbon accounting
| Verra | Stefan Jirka, Manager LandScale
| Indigo | Dan Harburg, Director
| Dagan, Inc | William Salas, President of Dagan, Inc
| Nori | Aldyen Donnelly, Director of Carbon Economics
| Ecosystem Services Market Consortium | Debbie Reed, Executive Director
| Carbon Farming Initiative | Beverley Henry, Institute for Future Environments-QUT
| Bayer: Climate Field View | Klaus Kunz, Head of Sustainability and Business Stewardship at Bayer Crop Science
| RECSOIL | Ronald Vargas, Global Soil Carbon Partnership, FAO
| Paul Luu, 4per1000
| *Speakers list subject to change Presentations will be available in a web repository

More about the event:
Register here: https://bit.ly/3hOTJDF