As 30,000 people descend on Sharm, you'll hear a number of buzzwords bouncing throughout the venue's many, many, many corridors: finance, loss and damage (now an agenda item!) , adaptation, ambition, Article 6, all among them. As always, Carbon Brief provides excellent analysis, as does TNC.  For us, we're focusing on the nature agenda, which in one way or another touches on all those broader topics. FOLU's Morgan Gillespy did a nice curtain raiser of what to keep an eye on with the forest agenda. We're looking forward to the Forest and Leaders' Climate Summit this evening, where a group of world leaders, including the UK Prime Minister, will launch the Forest and Climate Leaders' Partnership to focus on delivery and accountability of previous climate pledges. At that event, at 17.00 local time, a broader group of stakeholders will report on progress since COP26. We'll provide a full breakdown of the announcements in tomorrow's issue. 

The Nature Zone pavilion is a dedicated space at COP27 to bring to life the momentum, action, and impact that surrounds Nature Positive – the global goal to immediately halt and reverse nature loss by 2030. All events will be open for everyone to attend unless otherwise stated. Those not able to attend in person can watch the livestream on Nature4Climate’s YouTube channel. 

The Nature Zone kicked off yesterday with a workshop that brought together all Nature Zone collaborators and allies, including Johan Rockström and Manuel Pulgar Vidal, to align on our shared vision to create a Nature Positive future. This was followed by an evening session celebrating African ministerial leadership toward a Nature Positive Net-Zero Future

The Nature Zone is co-sponsored by The Nature Conservancy, Bloomberg Philanthropies, National Geographic Society, The Climate Pledge, Conservation International, Environmental Defense Fund, the Wildlife Conservation Society, BirdLife International, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich, Restor, Trillion Trees, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, American Forests, WWF International, the World Resources Institute and the Global Evergreening Alliance.

Full schedule can be found our new website! 

If you're on the ground, come find us in Zone C. Here's a helpful map, in case, like us, you find yourself hopelessly lost. 
 

COP27 CALLS TO ACTION

Alongside efforts to rapidly accelerate greenhouse gas emissions reductions: 

• Investors must stop investing in the conversion of intact ecosystems,  especially deforestation, and businesses that deplete nature, and start funding high integrity Nature-based Solutions. 
• Companies must commit to science-based targets for climate and nature, and to disclosing their impacts and dependencies on nature throughout their value chains. 
• Governments must deliver an ambitious global framework and action agenda for biodiversity at the upcoming Convention on Biodiversity (COP15) and fully recognise nature’s role as a key climate solution in the formal outcome of COP27.   
• Investors, companies, governments and civil society must work together with great urgency to reduce and reverse the socio-economic drivers and pressures causing nature’s decline and rising greenhouse gas emissions, while recognising the common but differentiated responsibilities of different peoples.