Our Outreach Officer, Jake Tatum, recently attended London Climate Action Week 2025, where he explored how climate and nature are increasingly being addressed together. In the piece below, he reflects on his experience and insights from three standout events: The Nature Hub, Reset Connect, and the World Climate Investment Summit. Each offered a unique lens on the climate and nature convergence, and how authoritative platforms like IBAT can support this.
The Nature Hub: Nature as One-Third of the Climate Solution
Held at KPMG’s Canary Wharf offices, the Nature Hub was a powerful showcase of how private sector investment is evolving to meet the dual challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss. Discussions focused on aligning corporate strategies with national biodiversity and climate plans, scaling nature-based solutions (NbS), and integrating biodiversity into carbon markets. These themes resonate deeply with IBAT’s role in providing access to authoritative biodiversity data to inform risk screening, investment decisions, and regulatory alignment. As nature becomes a core pillar of climate action, IBAT’s science-backed datasets and biodiversity reporting services are essential for organisations committed to ensuring that investments deliver measurable, science-based outcomes for nature.
Reset Connect: Scaling Innovation and Accountability
With over 300 exhibitors and 7,500 attendees, Reset Connect was a hub for sustainability professionals, innovators, and investors. While topics spanned net-zero strategies, green finance, and clean tech, biodiversity was increasingly present in conversations around supply chain resilience, Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) reporting, and nature-positive business models. IBAT’s relevance here is clear: as companies seek to future-proof operations and meet disclosure requirements, access to credible biodiversity data becomes a competitive advantage. IBAT’s integration with Geographic Information System (GIS) tools and its support for CSRD, TNFD, and GRI-aligned reporting make it a natural ally for the kinds of solutions showcased at Reset Connect.
World Climate Investment Summit: Financing a Nature-Positive Future
The World Climate Investment Summit at the London Stock Exchange brought together institutional investors, policymakers, and corporate leaders to develop scalable, ROI-driven climate investment strategies. With biodiversity-linked bonds, nature-based solutions, and blended finance models on the agenda, the summit underscored a growing recognition: climate finance must also be nature finance. IBAT’s recent $2.5 million reinvestment into global biodiversity datasets, supported by over 200 private sector users, reflects this shift. As biodiversity becomes increasingly recognised as material to financial risk and opportunity, IBAT is helping bridge the gap between ambition and action.
As London Climate Action Week ends for another year, one message rings clear: the path to a resilient, net-zero future is inseparable from the protection and restoration of nature. From strategy rooms to exhibition halls, biodiversity is no longer a side conversation, it’s a central pillar of climate ambition. For organisations navigating this evolving landscape, IBAT offers not just credible data, but clarity: a way to ground decision-making in science and accelerate progress toward truly nature-positive outcomes. This year’s London Climate Week reaffirmed that while the challenges are urgent, the momentum, and the tools, are already here.
If you’d like to learn more about how IBAT can help inform your organisation’s biodiversity decisions, contact us to book a demo at ibat@ibat-alliance.org
