About the event

Nature-related financial disclosure has moved from a niche sustainability topic to a mainstream market and policy priority. By November 2025, 733 organisations across more than 50 countries, including financial institutions managing over USD 22 trillion in assets, had publicly committed to TNFD-aligned disclosure, and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) announced it would draw directly on the TNFD's recommendations, metrics and LEAP approach in developing a Practice Statement on nature-related risk. This sits squarely within Target 15 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, which calls on governments to enable business and finance to monitor, assess and disclose their impacts and dependencies on nature. COP17 arrives at a moment when the TNFD agenda is shifting from framework design to sustained market implementation.

As adoption broadens, capacity is emerging as the binding constraint on quality and consistency, particularly in developing and emerging markets. Applying the LEAP approach credibly requires technical skills that most corporates, financial institutions, regulators and stock exchanges do not yet hold in-house, and disparities in institutional readiness risk leaving parts of the market behind even as global standard-setting accelerates. Translating a fast-growing number of public commitments into decision-useful disclosure depends on a coordinated capacity-building ecosystem spanning global technical bodies, regional finance-sector networks, and national business associations and regulators.

With the support of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the Government of Germany, UNDP and partners (including the UN SSE) implemented a global project to scale up the market adoption of nature-related financial disclosures across developing countries. 2025 saw a significant scale-up of capacity building activities: over 5,650 learner profiles and close to 600 registered trainers passed through TNFD's Learning Lab, regional Train-the-Trainer programmes built a facilitator pipeline of over 100 people, and UNEP FI, PRI, WBCSD and UN SSE jointly trained close to 1,000 participants through preparer fora and exchange-focused guidance. National programmes reached practitioners in ten priority countries, from Mexico to China, working closely with national business and banking associations. This session brings the partners behind that effort together, with the purpose to take stock of what capacity building has achieved, and the key lessons learned which can shape capacity building priorities in the future.  

This session will:

• Take stock of what capacity-building efforts on TNFD have achieved across the partners’ ecosystems, and where gaps remain.
• Compare experience on tailoring training to national contexts, translating materials, and engaging regulators and national business associations.
• Discuss common challenges as in-country coordination, delivery timelines, and shifting market sentiment on disclosure, and how the field has addressed them.
• Agree shared priorities for capacity building in developing markets moving forward, and how this partnership can support them. 

Date/time: 23 October, 09:00-10:30

Location: TNFD Hive - Holiday Inn Yerevan Republic Square

Registration: This event is an invite-only roundtable.