Managing nature-related financial risks

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to: 

• Explain how biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation, and planetary boundary pressures translate into financial and macroeconomic risks, including transmission through credit, market, and operational risk channels, and implications for financial stability. 

• Identify and assess dependencies and exposures to nature-related risks, using practical tools such as ENCORE, and understand how these insights inform supervisory assessment and risk management. 

• Analyse financing solutions for nature and ecosystem restoration and evaluate the role of public and private finance in supporting nature-positive investments. 

• Interpret emerging analytical approaches, including forward-looking nature scenarios and recent empirical evidence on how EU credit institutions assess nature-related risks. 

• Evaluate evolving policy, regulatory, and supervisory developments, particularly in the EU context, and assess how nature-related risks can be progressively integrated into prudential and financial stability frameworks. 

Thursday, 25 June 2026  

10.00 – 11.00  Intro – Presentations, Tour de Table, and Ice breaking: how much do you know about nature and finance? A quick assessment

11.00 – 11.30  Coffee break 

11.30 – 12.30  Session 1 – Session 1 – Introduction. Nature loss, planetary boundaries, and ecosystem degradation. Perspective from the natural science

12.30 – 13.30  Session 2 – Nature, the economy and the financial sector. The reliance of economic activities on ecosystem services, risks for the financial sector and transmission channels

13.30 – 14.30  Lunch 

14.30 – 15.30  Session 3 – Explanation and demo session: the use of ENCORE to identify nature dependencies of economic activities 

15.30 – 16.00  Coffee break 

16.00 – 17.00  Session 4 – From dependencies to financing solutions: a case study on ecosystem restoration

17.00 – 18.00  Session 5 – An introduction to Nature Scenarios: exploring the latest developments in assessing forward-looking nature risks and insights from a central bank 

18.00 – 19.00  Cocktail 

Friday, 26 June 2026 

09.30 – 10.30  Session 6 – How private banks are responding to nature-related risks?  Opportunities and challenges. The experience of Raiffeisen Bank

10.30 – 11.30  Coffee break 

11.30 – 13.00  Session 7 – Key insights from the upcoming CETEx report on EU credit institutions’ approaches in assessing nature risks (2020 – 2024) 

13.00 – 14.00  Lunch break  

14.00 – 15.30  Session 8 – Latest developments on supervisory approaches for assessing nature-related economic and financial risks

15.30 – 17.00  Session 9 – Final Panel

Representatives from financial and insurance supervisors, banks, other financial institutions, professional services (including consultants and law firms), supervisors, international, regional, and domestic development banks, international organisations, and academics. 

FULL FEES applicable from 19 March onwards*:

€ 950 – Academics
€ 1900 – Public sector
€ 2100 – Private sector

*Please note that the payment must be settled one week before the start of the course.

The fee includes tuition, access to all course materials and pedagogic activities, coffee and lunch breaks and social activities, as well as a certificate of attendance after the course has been completed. The fee does not include travel and accommodation expenses or other local transportation costs (taxis, private cars).

Please submit a certificate attesting your status of Professor, PhD Student or Research Associate to fbf@eui.eu before registering. FBF secretariat will provide you with a code to register. Seats for academics are limited.

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT (-10%), applicable until 18 March COB:

Participants are eligible for the below early bird discount if they register and pay by 18 March 2026. Please note that those who wish to pay a reduced fee for academics must send proof of academic status to fbf@eui.eu in order to verify their eligibility.

€ 855 – Early bird academic*/ € 950 full fee (from 19 March)
€ 1710 – Early bird public sector / € 1900 full fee (from 19 March)
€ 1890 – Early bird private sector / € 2100 full fee (from 19 March)

GROUP DISCOUNT (-15%) for minimum 3 participants from the same institution:

The below group discount applies to 3 or more participants who register for the same course from the same institution. Those wishing to take advantage of the group discount must write an email to fbf@eui.eu, stating the full names of the proposed participants.

€ 807,50 – Group discount academic
€ 1615 – Group discount public sector
€ 1785 – Group discount private sector

CANCELLATION POLICY

Paid registration fee is non-refundable. However, registrant substitution may be made up to 15 days before the start date of the course by contacting fbf@eui.eu.