Biodiversity Conference - Money Talks: Closing the Funding Gap for Nature Restoration
- Date: 2 December 2025
- Time: 14:00 – 17:00
- Location: Maison Grand Place, Grand place 19, 1000 Brussels
Nature restoration in Europe cannot succeed without closing the biodiversity financing gap. With private landowners managing much of Europe’s landscapes, attracting their active participation requires making restoration economically viable. Well-designed financial tools—results-based payments, tax incentives, blended finance, and credible biodiversity credits—can make restoration rewarding rather than risky. But private investment must work alongside robust public funding, legal certainty, and fair benefit sharing to build trust.
14:00 – Opening of the room
14:30 – Welcome & Introduction – Jurgen Tack, ELO Secretary General
15:00 Panel 1: Bridging the biodiversity finance gap: public, private, and market solutions
- Eva Mayerhofer, Senior Environment and Biodiversity Specialist at European Investment Bank (tbc)
- Thomas Freisinger, Senior Officer, Biodiversity Finance, IUCN
15:45 Panel 2: From policy to practice: empowering Landowners to drive Europe’ s Biodiversity Comeback
- Caroline Pringle, Private landowner/association representative
- Tobias Bandel, co-founder, The Landbanking Group
- Harm Schoten, Director at Eurosite (tbc)
16:30 Audience interaction
17:00 Concluding remarks
Read an article about the European Biodiversity Conference in the September/October edition of the CountrySide Magazine.
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