NatCap News: Natural Capital Symposium
Five more days to register for the next Natural Capital Symposium, to be held June 29 - July 1, 2026.
See this short trailer about the upcoming NatCap Symposium – registration was extended until June 10. | Video credit: Charlotte Burks/NatCap.
Every other year, NatCap gathers together hundreds of leaders, researchers, and practitioners in natural capital approaches for the Natural Capital Symposium, held in person at Stanford University. This year’s event will be June 29-July 1, and will be the first since we rebranded as the Natural Capital Alliance. We’ll also be celebrating our 20th anniversary and our plans to gradually open up the alliance to new members.
Registration was just extended to June 10th. Here’s a summary of key topics to be discussed (check the Agenda for more information!):
How governments and international financial institutions are integrating natural capital approaches into policy, finance, and operations to improve development outcomes and support long-term economic resilience;
Frontiers in natural capital and ecosystem service science, including links with mental and physical health;
The latest InVEST innovations, including new tools that that make ecosystem services modeling more accessible for use in policymaking, and open the door for community contributions to the InVEST Workbench;
Community-led conversations covering ecosystem services data and tools more broadly;
Announcement of this year’s Natural Capital Young Leaders;
And much more!
Several of the sessions will be recorded and available online after the event, so we’ll share those here as well as in our quarterly newsletter, Nature in Action (subscribe there for more summaries of NatCap news and events; a new edition is coming out soon).
For more from the last Symposium in 2024, check out our news stories and videos.
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