Welcome and introduction to the day

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: : The interdependence between finance and nature

Simon Zadek, Chair, Finance for Biodiversity

UNDERSTANDING NATURAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT

PANEL: Financial institutions’ exposure to nature-related risks

• What do investors look for when asset screening and assessing climate risk?
• What the challenges in risk integration with natural capital investments?
• How are risk assessments best undertaken?
• How are investors embedding natural capital and biodiversity into ESG assessments?
• Connecting finance and business to deliver shared objectives and reduce risk

Panellists: Richard Burrett, Chief Sustainability Officer, Earth Capital
Dawn Slevin, Managing Director, Environmental Liability Solutions Europe, Co-Chair, EFRAG Project Task Force on reporting of non-financial risks and opportunities and linkage to the business model
Katie Leach, Senior Programme Officer, Business and Biodiversity, UNEP-WCMC

PANEL: Scaling natural capital investments and building a market

• Examples of nature-based solutions and ecosystem services where investors see potential
• Establishing value in ecosystem services
• What can we learn from the success of other green investment opportunities when scaling natural capital investment?

Moderator: Alejandro Litovsky, Founder & CEO, Earth Security

Panellist: Matthew McLuckie, Managing Partner, Posaidon
Darius Sarshar, Investment Director, SLM Partners
Katherine Birnie, Managing Director, Ecosystem Investment

Speed networking

INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND IMPACT MEASUREMENTS

INVESTOR PANEL: Unpicking metrics and materiality

• Valuing an asset and structuring returns
• Where are the opportunities for standardisation in approaches and metrics?
• Integrating natural capital accounting
• How are rating agencies incorporating natural capital risks into their ESG ratings?

Pannelist: Jim Totty, Managing Director, Viridis Capital
Aaron Pinnock, Impact Investment Analyst, Investment Division, Church Commissioners for England (subject to final confirmation)

PRESENTATION: Data deficiencies

• What information is needed to align portfolios with nature-based solutions or biodiversity targets?
• Where and how are investors sourcing data in this space?
• What investment tools support a natural capital investment strategy?

PANEL: Investing for impact

• Understanding natural capital impacts alongside social impacts and other forms of capital
• What impact strategies maximise environmental and biodiversity gains?
• How should projects measure and report impact in a way that is useful for investors?
• How can TCFD/TNFD disclosures be utilised when making decisions around impact?
• Natural capital accounting as an impact measurement approach

Panellist: Ece Özdemiroğlu, Founding Director, eftec
Wijnand Broer, Partner, CREM/Partnership Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF)

Speed networking

FIRESIDE CHAT: Steve Waygood, Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Aviva Investors

POLICY MAKING AND THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENTS

PANEL: Blended finance

• Government incentives to enhance returns and reduce risk
• Case studies: did it work and what further questions were raised?
• What can be done to get such projects to scale?
• Are pooled funds and aggregating capital preferred to blended finance?

Pannelists: Ivo Mulder, Head, Climate Finance Unit, United Nations Environment Programme
Johnny Brom, Chief Investment Officer, Sail Ventures, Investment Advisor, &Green Fund
Bianca Nijhof, Managing Director, Netherlands Water Partnership
Fiona Stewart, Lead Financial Sector Specialist, The World Bank

AFTERNOON KEYNOTE: Task Force for Nature-related Financial Disclosures

Nicky Chambers, Programme and Impact Director, Global Canopy

PANEL: The global governance and legislative agenda

• What can governments do to collectively to protect nature within financial systems?
• Natural Capital considerations for the EU legislative agenda
• How might asset owners and investment managers be expected to report on biodiversity impacts?
• What can be expected to come out of the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP 15) in Kunming in May 2021?
• How are central banks approaching the theme of biodiversity loss?

Panellists: Emma Howard Boyd, Chair, Environment Agency
Senior representative, Defra
Joris van Toor, Policy Advisor, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB)

LIVE DISCUSSION GROUPS:

Participate in discussion groups via group video call with up to 20 individuals. Share experiences, learn and connect with each other.

Closing remarks

End of conference