UN-PRI side event: Taking TNFD to your Board of Directors
- Oct 7, 2024
10:30-12:00 PM EDT - 200 Front St W, Toronto, 30th Floor
Taking TNFD to your Board of Directors
Nature is now considered a strategic risk management and governance issue for companies and financial institutions. Physical and transition risks are materializing with greater frequency and severity, customer expectations are shifting, investors are asking more questions and regulators are moving forward with new nature-related corporate reporting requirements.
How should boards and directors be responding to this quickly evolving landscape? And how can the TNFD framework help directors more effectively manage nature-related risks and fulfil their evolving responsibilities?
This panel discussion is co-hosted as a side event to the UNPRI In-Person Conference in Toronto, by the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), the Institute for Sustainable Finance and CPA Canada. Doors open at 10:30 am, panel discussion begins at 11:00 am.
TO REGISTER, please contact Maya Saryyeva: maya.saryyeva@queensu.ca
Spots in the session are limited.
Moderator
Candice Dott
Director, TNFD Market Engagement
Candice is Director of Market Engagement at the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD). She is an accomplished business leader known for driving sustainable growth, with 20+ years of experience in global financial services where she has most recently worked for the London Stock Exchange Group and prior to that Bloomberg. She has deep expertise in sustainable finance, asset management, investment banking, commercial banking, corporates, central banks, exchanges, fintech and data.Presenters
Krista Gnau
North American Market Engagement Lead, TNFD
Krista Gnau is the North American Market Engagement Lead for the Task Force on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures. With over 20 years of experience in big data, financial data services, technology, andsustainable finance, Krista is a seasoned leader at the forefront of transformative change at the intersection of finance, sustainability, and nature. Krista works closely with stakeholders across the financial sector and is responsible for driving the regional implementation of TNFD's market engagement strategy, building robust programs that encourage corporations and financial institutions to disclose dependencies, risks and opportunities related to natural capital and biodiversity.
Eric Wetlaufer
Managing Partner, TwinRiver Capital
Eric Wetlaufer provides counsel as an investor, director and advisor to a range of large public to smaller private companies, with a particular focus on technology and financial sectors. He is Managing Partner of TwinRiver Capital, an Impact Investment firm with the dual mission of advancing positive environmental and societal impact globally as well as delivering financial returns. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the TMX Group, IMCO, Enterra Solutions and Niyogin Fintech, and is a past director of the UN-supported PRI and past president of the CFA Society Boston.
Marilyn Spink
Independent Board Director
Marilyn Spink is an award-winning professional engineer who has led teams to deliver complex minerals development projects in North and South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia ranging in value from $US500M to $9B. With over 16 years of experience as a corporate director, Marilyn is committed to the integration of positive social impact, environmental stewardship, and financial performance in her board oversight roles by employing “right touch” governance principles to help guide organizations toward triple-bottom-line success. In 2020, Marilyn was designated as a Certified Sustainability Practitioner, attained her Institute of Corporate Directors ICD.D designation and in 2023 she was inducted as a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.