Visual report
Drawings of our International Expert Workshop on Reforming Biodiversity-Harmful Incentives by Aligning Public and Private Finance for Transformational Change on June 17th, 2026.
Download the PDF with the 3 panels of the entire brown paper poster.
Key frames of the presentations
Below are zoom-ins from the poster with names of the presenters and some highlights. Please note: this is an artist impression and is meant to supplement the formal report.
Jochem Wiers (Dutch Ambassador to France): “Keep the momentum going!”
Jasper Dalhuisen (Netherlands permanent representation to the OECD) On the right, two comments from the room.
Ernestine Meijer and Maaike Moolhuijsen (Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature) - on the process so far and: “It's all interconnected, therefore a collective effort is needed.”
Jaime Bourbon de Parme (OECD Director) - On the left: “We have a situation where one hand gives, while another hand takes. Stop this waste of money, effort and impact.”
On the right, two comments from the room on aligning with national defense goals. Kai Schlegelmilch: “By introducing wetlands in the east (of Europe) we restore nature while creating an effective anti-tank barrier.”
Maria Zakaryan (Armenia) on the Yerevan Call - the urgent push to elevate biodiversity protection.
On the right Anca Voia (French Ministry of Ecological Transition) - sharing insights and their tagging methodology.
Georgia Patt (United Kingdom Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs) - Moving away from area based subsidies towards nature positive actions.
On the right Marina von Weissenberg (Finland Ministry of the Environment) with the ‘Friends of T18 initiative’.
Private Financial Sector
Marguerite Culot (CDC Grupe - Caisse des dépôts et consignations) shares that for traditional thinking colleagues it’s quite a mindset shift
Natacha Boric (Finance for Biodiversity Foundation) on nature-positive investing → It's just a tiny bit compared to traditional investing and there isn't a level playing field.
Merel Hendriks (Netherlands Water Boards Bank) and Pjotr Tjallema (Triodos Bank) with a call to governments to make biodiversity impact reporting mandatory AND regulated.
Breakout groups
Biodiversity means life for us all.
Top left
When we talk about people, planet, profit it's presented as if we have a choice. In reality this model is more like a wedding cake: Our economy can only exist if we have healthy people. Healthy people can only exist if we have a healthy environment.
How can we change the narrative in the old boys' clubs? By having people of status like the CEO of the central bank talk passionately about nature! We ought to normalize the conversation in these rooms.
Top right
A call to integrate public datasets so we can learn from each other. Beyond the spreadsheet, with the numbers, you also want to understand the context, the qualitative information, and the goal of the research.
Middle left
Multiple workshop leaders confirmed that it was beneficial for the private and public financial sector to exchange lessons learned what works and how to convince sceptical colleagues.
Nico Polman (Wageningen Social and Economic Research) did an effort to put the challenge in perspective and commented: “Don't worry, the dentist won't pull all your teeth.”
Middle right
Shift the attention away from the ‘losers’ when we reform harmful incentives and celebrate our winners!
Inside joke - the clicker
Every speaker had an initial challenge operating the slides clicker. The instruction was: ‘it’s the green one’, yet all the buttons were green!
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Thank you all for participating, sharing and creating links for collaboration. Let’s do that again!