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Daily Programme - EBNS 2025

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Daily Programme

Thursday 23 - Friday 24 October 2025

Please note that the programme is provisional and may be subject to change.

The detailed programme for EBNS 2025 is now available for download:

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Session information

Plenary sessions

Technical sessions

 

Programme overview

Day 1

Thursday 23rd October

  1. 09:00 – 10:00
    Registration & coffee
  2. 10:00 – 10:10
    Opening plenary

    EBNS 2025 opening by Emma Kari, CEO, One Planet, Former Minister of the Environment of Finland and John Sabet, Founder, Antenna - Room 2

  3. 10:10 – 10:15
    Welcoming remarks by Atte Jääskeläinen, President of Sitra

    Room 2

  4. 10:15 – 10:30
    Welcoming remarks by Eric Mamer, Director General for Environment

    Room 2

  5. 10:30 – 11:30
    Plenary session I – Business Action

    How to enable and accelerate credible business action and transformation? – Session led by the European Business & Biodiversity Platform - Room 2

  6. 11:30 – 13:00
    Technical sessions – Break-out 1
    • Embedding nature in your business strategy – Session led by Business for Nature - Room 1
    • Nature credits: taking stock of initial pilots – Session led by the Climate Leadership Coalition - Room 2
    • Resilient & sustainable food systems through value chain collaboration – Session led by the Baltic Sea Action Group - Room 3
    • Valuing nature related risks: from systemic risk to corporate action – Session led by the Foundation for Sustainable Development - Room 4
  7. 13:00 – 14:30
    Lunch break
  8. 14:30 – 16:00
    Technical sessions – Break-out 2
    • Financing the nature-positive transition – Session led by the EU B&B Platform (Workstream Finance)- Room 1
    • Corporate biodiversity measurement - Session led by the University of Jyväskylä- Room 2
    • Best practices of implementing circular business models for competitiveness, resilience, and nature  – Session led by Sitra - Room 3
    • Collaboration for Nature: How multi-stakeholder partnerships can drive real impact for biodiversity at landscape scale – Session led by Fauna & Flora (Workshop) - Room 4
  9. 16:00 – 16:30
    Coffee break
  10. 16:30 – 17:50
    Plenary session II – Biodiversity finance

    From pledge to action: Advancing finance for biodiversity – Session led by the European Business & Biodiversity Platform and the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation - Room 2

  11. 17:50 – 18:00
    Wrap-up Day 1
  13. 18:00 – 20:00
    Networking cocktail

Day 2

Friday 24th October

  1. 09:00 – 09:30
    Registration & coffee
  2. 09:30 – 09:40
    Welcoming remarks by Sari Multala, Finnish Minister of Climate and the Environment

    Room 2

  3. 09:40 – 09:50
    Keynote speech by Jessika Roswall, European Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy

    Room 2

  4. 09:50 – 11:00
    Plenary session III – Circular & Bioeconomy

    Circular and bioeconomy as a transformative force for nature and society – Session led by Sitra - Room 2

  5. 11:00 – 11:30
    Coffee break
  6. 11:30 – 13:00
    Technical sessions – Break-out 3
    • Rationale & barriers to transformative change – Session led by Horizon Nua & Trinity College Dublin - Room 1
    • Transforming corporate engagement: How investors can drive nature action – Session led by Finance for Biodiversity Foundation - Room 2
    • Redirecting finance for regenerative agriculture – Session led by The Nature Conservancy - Room 3
    • Implementing nature strategies: Challenges and solutions – Session led by UN Global Compact Nordics (Workshop) - Room 4
  7. 13:00 – 13:20
    Dialogue with Humberto Delgado Rosa, Director for Biodiversity at the European Commission

    Room 2

  8. 13:20 – 13:30
    Closing remarks

    Room 2

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