Conférence Inter-réseaux à Londres : Investir dans la nature : quelle est la valeur de la protection de la biodiversité ?
The London Club NEOMA Alumni invites you to an upcoming networking event:
Conférence inter-réseaux à Londres
"Make an Impact for Good" Sustainability Programme
Investing in Nature: what’s the value of protecting biodiversity?
Date
Wednesday 26th February - 6.30pm UK time
Program
EDHEC Alumni UK and France Alumni are delighted to invite you to a thought-provoking discussion that will prove the business case for investing in nature.
At the recent UN Biodiversity COP 16 in Colombia, discussions on investing in nature showed some progress but highlighted the continued lack of a clear strategy for resource mobilisation. Without decisive action, achieving the Global Biodiversity Framework's 2030 goals will become increasingly difficult.
In light of this, it is now essential that biodiversity investments take priority for governments and businesses that impact or depend on natural resources.
Why Attend ?
- Gain insights from a diverse group of experts on how to effectively direct capital towards conservation and regeneration projects
- Be inspired by real-world case studies of successful biodiversity investments
- Connect with like-minded professionals over a networking cocktail
⇨ 6.30pm: Registrations
⇨ 7pm: Opening remarks
⇨ 7.10pm: Panel discussion
⇨ 8.10pm: Q&A
⇨ 8.30pm: Networking & Cocktails in the Institut Français Art Deco Library
Speakers
► Simon Connell : Director, Baringa Partners
Simon has spent the past two decades supporting financial institutions as they navigate an ever-changing set of sustainability challenges. In his role as Chair of the University of Cambridge Banking Environment Initiative, he helped shape the university’s pioneering work on nature-related financial risk, and remains a nature finance advisor and Senior Associate at the University’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Simon advises a range of financial institutions on nature and biodiversity and has led projects spanning ambition and strategy-setting through to risk quantification. He supports the CFA Institute in developing their nature and biodiversity training curriculum, and has been involved in the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures since inception, originally as an IWG member. Simon lives in London with his wife, three children and a small menagerie of animals, and enjoys getting out into nature on his bicycle.
► Jeremy Legget : CEO, Highlands Rewilding
Jeremy is a social entrepreneur, writer and climate campaigner. Before embarking on the Bunloit project in March 2020, he founded Solarcentury (1998-2020), one of the world’s most respected solar energy companies, winner of a Queen's Award for Enterprise in Innovation. He also founded SolarAid (2006-2020), an international charity set up with a levy on annual Solarcentury profits, winner of a BITC Unilever Global Development Award. An Entrepreneur of the Year at the New Energy Awards, he was the first Hillary Laureate for International Leadership in Climate Change, has won a Gothenburg Prize, and was the first non-Dutch winner of a Royal Dutch Honorary Sustainability Award. After taking a D.Phil in Earth Science at the University of Oxford, he taught at the Imperial College of Science and Technology (1978-1989). He was scientific director of the climate campaign at Greenpeace (1990-1996), and has been an occasional lecturer on courses in business and environment at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and St Gallen (Switzerland). He has written four books about the climate crisis, as he has experienced it on the front lines for three decades.
► Xinyu Pey : Engager, Federated Hermes
Xinyu primarily engages with companies in the Asia and global emerging markets, focusing on mining & materials, oil & gas, industrials, and chemicals sectors. Prior to joining the EOS team at Federated Hermes Limited, Xinyu worked as a climate science analyst at a clean-tech start-up providing Scope 3 data collection from transportation, where she dived into the voluntary carbon offsetting market and greenhouse gas emissions protocol-aligned carbon accounting. Xinyu has a Master’s degree in Economics and Policy of Energy and Environment from University College London and a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies from the Ohio State University. She has research experience in circular economy in the built environment sector.
► Bethany Ridley Moran : Manager, Nature, Lloyds Banking Group
Bethany Ridley-Moran’s career in nature finance spans both public and private sectors. Having joined Lloyds Banking Group as Nature Manager in October 2023, Bethany works across the business in assessing and managing nature-related risks and opportunities; builds capability on nature within the organisation; and leads work on agricultural forest risk commodities. This follows five years working as an environmental policy advisor in UK Government. Before joining Lloyds Banking Group, Bethany managed the ‘Private Finance for Nature’ team at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, working across UK Government to embed nature into financial policy and regulation. Bethany was the programme manager for the UK’s support to the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), alongside leading international programmes aimed at supporting governments, central banks, businesses and financial institutions to integrate the value of nature into their decision making.
► James Payne : Global Head, Purpose of Business, Forum for the Future
Address
Institut Français du Royaume-Uni
17, Queensberry Place - SW7 2DT LONDON
Registrations
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This event is part of EDHEC Alumni UK’s "Make An Impact for Good" sustainability programme supported by the French Embassy in the UK and in partnership with KlimateNet.