Home » WebinarsBoards and nature – the evolving landscape for directors’ duties Date 11th July 2024 Collection Public Webinars 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? In this webinar, we cover how directors’ duties are evolving to include nature related issues and the role the TNFD recommendations and related guidance can play to support directors’ duties. Key focus areas of this webinar Establish why nature-related issues (as part of a broader set of sustainability issues) are relevant for boards and board directors and why they are part of the fiduciary duty of directors. Discuss the growth of investor and regulatory focus on nature-related issues and the significance of recent legal opinions in New Zealand, Australia and the UK and potential global application. Discuss how boards and board directors can build the knowledge and capabilities around nature-related issues and the current state of board readiness. Useful resources TNFD in a Box Board Level Overview CCLI Papers: Nature-related Risks and Duties of Company Directors Nature-related Risks and Duties of Company Directors Biodiversity as a material financial risk – What board directors need to know? NGFS Paper: Nature-related Litigation Trends Nature-related Litigation: Emerging Trends and Lessons Learned from Climate-related Litigation Pollination Law and CCLI: Opinion resources and Quarterly updates Australian Company Directors and Nature-related Risk Company Directors and Nature Risk (English Law) Competent Boards Climate and Nature Designation (CCB.D) Program Details about the climate and nature designation certification. Next cohort starts in October Hosted by Candice Dott Director of Market Engagement, TNFD Candice 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. Candice has extensive global sales, business development, customer and strategy execution leadership experience across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa. She is passionate about connecting ecosystem partners and stakeholders for greater impact and has established networks across financial services, developing and mature markets, and public and private sector. Candice lives in Johannesburg and enjoys traveling, nature, trail running and trekking. Tony Goldner Executive Director, 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. Guests Helle Bank Jorgensen CEO & Founder, Competent Boards Cynthia Williams Executive Director, Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative Sarah Barker Managing Director, Pollination Law Related webinars Global launch webinar – The TNFD Recommendations September 19, 2023 (Updated: October 6, 2023) Following the official launch at New York Climate Week, the TNFD hosted a public webinar on the final version (v1) our recommendations. This comes after a two-year development period, four beta releases, and 3000+ pieces of... 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