Key outcomes for boards from COP16: Is nature accounted for in your company’s strategy?  

Climate Governance Initiative presenterà la sintesi di COP16 alla luce degli elementi rilevanti per i board nel webinar. Per registrarsi usare il link.

Join us to explore the key discussions and outcomes from the biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP16), Colombia, and how they will influence boardroom decisions. We will hear from board directors taking nature action in their organisations, and the challenges and opportunities that have emerged during their journey. Taking place a week before the start of COP29, we will also delve into the priorities for the climate COP and how to ensure nature is firmly on the agenda.

Speakers will include experts present at COP16, as well as board directors who have experience integrating nature into their organisation’s strategy:

Sheila Murray, Chair of the Board at Teck Resources & Advisory Board member, Climate Governance Initiative

Sheila Murray has been a director of Teck since April 2018 and was appointed Chair of the Board in February 2020.

She is a graduate of Queens University (B.Comm and LLB). Ms. Murray served as President of CI Financial Corp. from 2016 to 2019 and was previously Executive Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary of CI Financial Corp. Ms. Murray played a key role in directing the operations and setting corporate strategy for CI Financial Corp. and its operating companies, including CI Investments Inc. and Assante Wealth Management. Her role included leading CI’s mentoring program, which fosters the advancement of high-potential female employees. Prior to that, Ms. Murray had a 25-year career at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, where she practised securities law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and corporate reorganizations.

Ms. Murray is the past Chair of the Dean’s Council at Queen’s University Law School and has also taught Securities Regulation at Queen’s University and Corporate Finance at the University of Toronto’s Global Professional LLM in Business Law Program. Ms. Murray is also a director of BCE Inc. and Bell Canada, and a trustee of Granite REIT.

Tony Goldner, CEO, Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

For over two decades, Tony has advised government, financial sector and philanthropic leaders on a range of strategic challenges at the intersection of business, finance and public policy. These include centre of government reform, national economic development strategy and the architecting of green finance investment opportunities. He began his career in the Australian diplomatic service before moving into the private sector, first in investment banking where he focused on infrastructure project financing and then in strategy consulting as a Partner at Monitor Deloitte and as an adviser with the World Bank Group.

Moderated by: Shivin Kohli, Lead, Financing for Nature, World Economic Forum

Shivin Kohli is Lead, Financing for Nature at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Nature and Climate. In this role, he leads the Forum’s work on mainstreaming natural capital in decision making for governments, businesses, and investors. Prior to this, Shivin co-led global sustainability research and engagements for the economics consulting firm AlphaBeta, working extensively with international organisations, governments, industry associations, private sector firms, investors, philanthropies, and nonprofits. Shivin is an experienced economist and has co-authoring a number of leading agenda-setting reports on business and biodiversity, including the Future of Nature and Business. Shivin previously worked in banking, digital media, and newsdesks. He holds a BSc with Honours in Economics and Public Policy from Singapore Management University.

More speakers to follow…