Join our webinar with leading nature markets experts sharing practical insights on how evolving regulatory frameworks and blue finance models are linking ecological performance directly to investment decisions, risk profiles, and long-term asset value.
On a global scale, nature markets are expanding beyond carbon, driven by emerging regulatory frameworks and voluntary standards. Instruments such as biodiversity credits and mitigation banking are translating nature into measurable financial assets. As a result, financial institutions are increasingly assessing, quantifying, and integrating nature-related risks and opportunities into their investment strategies.
In parallel, maturing blue finance models are creating new opportunities for marine stakeholders, from incentives that reward performance beyond compliance to financial instruments such as blue bonds and ESG-linked loans.
These developments signal a future in which measurable and reliable biodiversity outcomes reduce nature-related risks while accelerating investment and resilience across coastal and offshore sectors.
January 20th, 2026 l 10:00 AM EST l 4:00 PM CET
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Webinar panelists
Dr. Ruth Dagan
Dr. Ruth Dagan is a partner and Head of the Environment & Climate Change practice at Herzog, Fox & Neeman. Ruth recently concluded a 3-year term advising the UNFCCC Secretariat on the legal aspects of Article 6. She is the co-chair of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) Legal Working Group and a member of VERRA’s Expert Advisory. Ruth specializes in carbon markets, climate policy, and the intersection of regulation and finance, advising global stakeholders on innovative climate solutions. She will discuss how new regulatory frameworks and voluntary standards accelerate the development of nature markets, and particularly the emerging biodiversity credit market, by creating clearer value propositions for nature and biodiversity investments. These frameworks are making it easier to measure nature and biodiversity impacts and to translate them into financial value through instruments such as biodiversity credits, blue bonds, and mitigation banking. She will also explore how the monetization of nature is becoming capital for the financial system, as financial institutions increasingly assess, quantify, and integrate nature-related risks and considerations into their investment strategies.
Dr. Catherine Jadot
Dr. Catherine Jadot is a marine biologist with over 20 years of experience and a blue finance specialist, currently leading blue finance initiatives for European and international institutions, including multi-country investment facilities, technical assistance programs, and innovative financing mechanisms for coastal and SIDS regions. She will explore how nature-market concepts are translated into concrete deals that fund marine and coastal projects, using practical case studies and learnings from blue bonds, technical assistance facilities, and early blue-carbon and biodiversity credits. She will explain how robust integrity standards enable regulators, issuers, and project developers to cut nature-related risk instead of layering on additional labels.
Simas Gradeckas
Simas Gradeckas is the co-founder and CEO of BloomLabs, a biodiversity credit market intelligence platform with the most extensive voluntary biodiversity market database across transactions, projects, market participants, credit schemes, and metrics. Simas and his team are deeply involved in the development of biodiversity credits internationally and especially at the EU level, contributing to one of the EU Commission-funded projects to pilot the market in the European wetlands and being part of the Commission’s Expert Group on Nature Credits. He will analyze the current state of voluntary biodiversity markets, with insights into emerging compliance markets, and explore potential future market development scenarios for coastal and marine ecosystems.