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Daily Programme - EBNS2025

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Daily Programme

Thursday 23 - Friday 24 October 2025

Day 1

Thursday 23rd October

  1. 09:00 – 10:00
    Registration & coffee
  2. 10:00 – 10:10
    EBNS 2025 opening
  3. 10:10 – 10:15
    Welcoming remarks by Atte Jääskeläinen, President of Sitra
  4. 10:15 – 10:30
    Welcoming remarks by Jessika Roswall, European Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy
  5. 10:30 – 11:30
    Plenary session I – Business Action
  6. 11:30 – 13:00
    Technical sessions – Break-out 1
    • Designing a credible and ambitious nature strategy – Session led by Business for Nature
    • Resilient & sustainable food systems through value chain collaboration – Session led by the Baltic Sea Action Group
    • Nature credits: taking stock of initial pilots – Session led by the Climate Leadership Coalition
    • Valuing nature related risks: from systemic risk to corporate action – Session led by the Foundation for Sustainable Development
  7. 13:00 – 14:30
    Lunch break
    • Corporate biodiversity measurement – Session led by the University of Jyväskylä
    • Financing the nature-positive transition – Session led by the European Business & Biodiversity Platform
    • Building resilient and nature-positive business through circular solutions – Session led by Sitra
    • Collaboration for Nature: How multi-stakeholder partnerships can drive real impact for biodiversity at landscape scale – Session led by Fauna & Flora
  8. 16:00 – 16:30
    Coffee break
  9. 16:30 – 17:50
    Plenary session II – Biodiversity finance
  10. 17:50 – 18:00
    Wrap-up Day 1
  11. 18:00 – 20:00
    Networking cocktail

Day 2

Friday 24th October

  1. 09:00 – 09:30
    Registration & coffee
  2. 09:30 – 09:35
    Welcome Day 2
  3. 09:35 – 09:45
    Welcoming remarks by Sari Multala, Finnish Minister of Climate and the Environment
  4. 09:45 – 11:00
    Plenary session III – Circular & Bioeconomy
  5. 11:00 – 11:30
    Coffee break
  6. 11:30 – 13:00
    Technical sessions – Break-out 3
    • Redirecting finance for regenerative agriculture – Session led by The Nature Conservancy
    • Implementing nature strategies: Challenges and solutions – Session led by UN Global Compact Nordics
    • Rationale & barriers to transformative change – Session led by Trinity College Dublin
    • Transforming corporate engagement: How investors can drive nature action – Session led by Finance for Biodiversity Foundation
  7. 13:00 – 13:20
    Dialogue with Humberto Delgado Rosa, Director for Biodiversity at the European Commission
  8. 13:20 – 13:30
    Closing remarks
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