Regulating Finance – a pre condition to implementing the GBF – a COP16 Green zone event

Forests & Finance today held an event in the Green Zone of UN CBD biodiversity COP16. The Green zone is the area that is open to the public.
During the event, Tom Picken presented on the Forests & Finance reports Banking on Biodiversity Collapse and Regulating Finance for Biodiversity. Tye Parakanã, from the Indigenous Land Apyterewa, in the Brazilian Amazon, shared how the financing of meatpacker JBS, by big banks, has driven deforestation in his territory, and how they are demanding reparations. Ola Janus presented on BankTrack’s campaigns for stronger bank policies and bank accountability. Shona Hawkes presented on the corporate driven Task-Force for Nature related Financial Disclosures, which is being presented at COP16 as a sustainability disclosure framework, but is actually a false solution, and Jeff Conant, who presented on the case of defunding agribusiness.
The slides of each of the speakers can be downloaded below.

Tom Picken, Rainforest Action Network – download presentation
Tye Parakanã – Associação Tato’a
Ola Janus, BankTrack – download presentation
Shona Hawkes – Rainforest Action Network – download presentation
Jeff Conant, Friends of the Earth US – download presentation