Evolving the financial system: integrating biodiversity into financial risk and regulation
With the development of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures and acknowledgement that ecological impacts must also be factored in to mitigate climate change, biodiversity is increasingly on the agendas of financial institutions. This panel discussion in collaboration with the World Wide Fund for Nature will examine how the financial sector should integrate biological considerations into their investments, including how to create products to hedge against nature-related and biodiversity risk. Speakers will also touch upon the latest developments in sustainable bonds, risks and opportunities in biodiversity and strategies for how to integrate it into disclosure and risk frameworks.
Panellists:
Simon Zadek
Chair
Finance for Biodiversity Initiative
Géraldine Ang
Senior Policy Analyst, Green Finance and Investment
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
John Ploeg
CFA, Vice President and ESG Specialist
PGIM Fixed Income
Jean Boissinot
Head of Secretariat, Network for Greening the Financial System
Banque de France
Thomas Vellacott
CEO
WWF Switzerland
Emily McKenzie
Technical Director
Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
Timings:
15:00-16:15 (London)
10:00-11:15 (New York)
In partnership with:
This meeting will be conducted under the OMFIF Rules.
This virtual discussion is part of the OMFIF Sustainable Policy Institute. The SPI is a high level community which brings together central banks, sovereign funds, public pension funds, and their counterparts in asset management, banking and professional services to explore policy, regulatory and investment challenges posed by environmental, social and governance themes. See more information on OMFIF’s SPI here.
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