Agenda

Here's what's scheduled for the event. All times are in GMT.

8:20 AM
Registration and morning networking
 
8:55 AM
Introduction

Maurice Button, CEO, City & Financial Global

9:00 AM
Chair’s opening remarks

David Craig, Co-chair, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

9:10 AM
Keynote address I: Disclosures and reporting within the scope of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Dr David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

9:25 AM
Keynote adddress II: Accounting for nature: preserving natural capital through financial reporting

Baroness Penn, Treasury Lords Minister, HM Treasury; Co-Chair of the Transition Plan Taskforce

9:40 AM
Panel: Almost 12 months on from COP 15: How much progress has been made in achieving the Global Diversity Framework targets?

Moderator 

Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE, CEO, Green Finance Institute

Panellists 

Andrea Ledward CBE, Director of International Biodiversity and Climate, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Neville Ash, Director, UNEP-WCMC

Harold Pauwels, Standards Director, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

Marco Lambertini, Special Envoy WWF International and Convener of the Nature Positive Initiative

10:30 AM
Fireside chat: Best Practice in Nature Risk Assessment

Host

Dr Simon Zadek, Executive Director, Nature Finance

In conversation with

Dr Richard Mattison, Vice Chair, S&P Global Sustainable1 and Chief Executive Officer, S&P Global Trucost
 

11:00 AM
Coffee and networking break
 
11:35 AM
Panel: The TNFD Final Recommendations – implementation and challenges

Moderator 

Puninda Thind, Finance Nature Lead, High-Level Climate Champions Team

Panellists

Gemma Corrigan, Head of Policy and ESG Integration, Federated Hermes Limited

Sarah Dyson, TNFD Taskforce Member, Head of Corporate Responsibility, GSK  

David Croft, Global Head of Sustainability, Reckitt

12:20 PM
Panel: Evolving standards around nature-based reporting

Moderator 

Veronica Poole, Vice Chair of Deloitte UK and Deloitte Global IFRS and Corporate Reporting Leader

Panellists  

Mark Gough, CEO, Capitals Coalition

Sue Armstrong Brown, Global Director of Environmental Impact and Thought Leadership, CDP 

Harold Pauwels, Standards Director, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

1:05 PM
Networking & lunch
 
2:10 PM
Panel: Nature-positive investment – opportunities and risk management

Moderator 

Oliver Bolton, CEO, Earthly

Panellists 

Laura Barlow, Group Head of Sustainability, Barclays

Adonai Herrera- Martínez, Director, Environment and Sustainability, EBRD

Dr Katie Leach, Group Head of Nature, Lloyds Banking Group

Stephanie Glover, Head of Strategy and Sustainable Finance, Guernsey Finance

2:55 PM
Case study: Best practice nature impact reporting

Ingrid Kukuljan, Head of Impact & Sustainable Investing, Federated Hermes Limited

3:10 PM
Panel: Progress towards developing high integrity biodiversity credit markets

Moderator

Dame Amelia Fawcett, Lead Director, State Street Corporation and Co-Chair, International Advisory Panel for Biodiversity Credits

Panellists 

Dr Simon Zadek, Executive Director, Nature Finance

Anna Lehmann, Global Director for Policy and External Affairs, Wildlife Works

Dr Sam Lacey, Strategic Director Nature Finance, The Biodiversity Consultancy

Dr Tim Coles OBE, Director and Chief Executive Officer, rePLANET, and Member, BCA Task Force

3:55 PM
Networking & afternoon tea
 
4:15 PM
Panel: Establishing a Global Nature-Related Public Data Facility

Moderator 

David Craig, Co-chair, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

Panellists  

James d'Ath, Data and Analytics Technical Lead, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

Professor Andy Purvis, Research Leader, Natural History Museum 

Dr Vian Sharif, Founder, NatureAlpha

Beccy Wilebore, Chief Science Officer, natcap

5:00 PM
Chair’s closing remarks

David Craig, Co-chair, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

5:05 PM
Close of proceedings