OPENING WEBINAR- THURSDAY, 15 OCTOBER, 2020 AT 13:30 GMT/14:30 CEST
Join us for the knowledge exchange series to support the normalization of global best practices demonstrating E&S impact, from sustainable land use financing, through to the development of a Key Performance Indicator Directory. The five impact areas covered by the KPI Directory are: forests, biodiversity, livelihoods, climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation. The knowledge exchange series include an opening webinar on 15 October 2020 and a closing webinar on 12 November 2020, together with a series of technical workshops run in between, from 26 October to 2 November.
Title – Sustainable Land-Use Financing: Standardising Environmental & Social Impact
Objective – Present real-world experiences in trying to demonstrate E&S impact from ‘sustainable land-use financing’
Audience – Open to all interested parties
Registration - Click here
AGENDA
- Welcome and Introduction
Susan Gardner – Director, Ecosystem Division – UNEP
Ivo Mulder – Head, Climate Finance Unit – UNEP
- Panellist Presentation and Discussion
Nathalie Roth – Managing Director, 4Climate
Marieke Hussels – Sustainability, Sail Ventures
Agnes Johan – Head Blended Finance, Rabo Partnerships B.V.
- Introduction to the Key Performance Indicators Directory
- Summary and Close
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HOUSEKEEPING RULES
Zoom
- You are encouraged to turn your video on and view using gallery mode
- Please mute your microphones
- Provide questions and/or comments in the chat box
Menti
- Login to Menti on your phone using code 97 54 71 8
- Remain logged into Menti throughout the webinar (preferably using your phone)
- Questions will be asked periodically throughout the 90 minute period
Panel Discussion & Questions
- Panellist will deliver 5-minute presentation
- Participants are encouraged to type a question into the chat box
Technical Difficulties
- Message Julie Dimitrijevic directly and notify her of your technical issue
- The team will work to resolve this with you
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KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE SERIES – WORKSHOPS AND CLOSING WEBINAR
WORKSHOPS - Running from 26 October to 2 November, 2020 at 13:30 GMT/14:30 CEST
Title – Sustainable Land-Use Financing: Finalising the KPI Directory Tool & It’s Application
Objective - A series of workshops will be held over 5 days, to discuss the 5 Impact Areas for the KPI Directory Tool. Each workshop will focus on one of the 5 impact areas: Biodiversity, Forests, Climate change mitigation, Climate change adaptation and Livelihoods.
Audience - This event is open to anyone interested and working in sustainable land use finance. Due to the technical nature of the discussion these workshops will be held in smaller groups that allow for discussion. Registration will be restricted to 15 individuals per workshop.
CLOSING WEBINAR - Thursday, 12 November, 2020 at 13:30 GMT/14:30 CEST
Title - Sustainable Land-Use Financing: Mainstreaming Environmental & Social Impact
Objective - The importance of mainstreaming E&S land-use: impacts and the tool (as provided by UNEP) that can help catalyse the process.
Audience - Open to all interested parties
Registration – Click here (register for both the Opening Webinar and Closing Webinar separately)
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BIOGRAPHIES
SPEAKERS
Susan Gardener - Director, Ecosystems Division, UNEP
Ms. Susan Gardner has over two decades of experience in science and environmental policy working for both the Mexican and United States governments. She was a senior official in the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration focused on fisheries science and ocean conservation. Ms. Gardner’s multilateral work included the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, the Global Mercury Partnership and the Stockholm Convention. She recently led the facilitation team of Nature-based Solutions track in the Secretary General Climate Action Summit 2019. LinkedIn
Mareike Hussels – E&S Director, Investment Advisor to the &Green Fund, Sail Ventures
Mareike is responsible for E&S risk and impact for the &Green Fund, an investment fund focused on sustainable land-use. She supports &Green’s clients in improving their environmental & social performance and in growing their positive impact on the landscapes they operate in. Mareike has close to 20 years of experience in sustainable finance, clean energy investment and E&S risk management. She joined SAIL from FMO (the Dutch development bank) where she was a Senior E&S Officer. Prior to that she worked at Triodos, E+Co, the World Resources Institute, and UNEP FI. LinkedIn
Nathalie Roth – Managing Director/Owner, 4Climate
Nathalie is the founder of 4Climate an environmental finance consulting company established in 2005. Nathalie has about 20 years of professional experience in the environment and finance sector including insurance, banking, environmental finance ratings, greenhouse gas brokerage. Nathalie is also a senior external climate finance advisor to the government of Luxembourg working with Luxembourg on climate finance programmes for the past 14 years. In this role, Nathalie is reviewing climate and SDG impacts of new climate finance initiatives and financial products LinkedIn
Agnes Johan – Head Blended Finance, Rabo Partnerships B.V.
Agnes Johan is Senior project manager at Rabo Partnerships B.V., a dedicated entity within the Rabobank Group, active in Advisory, Investments and Impact Finance. Agnes is an agricultural economist by training, and is an experienced banker with a background in Trade and Commodity Finance (more than 15 years). She has been financing international agri commodity trading companies. She has a thorough understanding of Food and Agri Business and value chains, international trade flows, price risk management tools and credit risk management and policies.
FACILITATOR
Phil Hadridge
Phil Hadridge specializes in supporting groups working to achieve a social or public purpose beyond financial profit – whether meeting face to face or virtually. He helps leaders in various sectors develop their external facing partnerships and internal collaborations – connecting the people leading the many separate and sometimes competing activities and agendas. LinkedIn
UNEP CLIMATE FINANCE/ UNEP_WCMC'S LAND-USE FINANCE PROGRAMME TEAM
Ivo Mulder – Climate Finance Unit, UNEP
Ivo leads UNEP ’s Climate Finance Unit, which was created in 2019. It brings together various initiatives and finance facilities that proactive catalyse private capital towards sustainable land use. This includes the Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility with BNP Paribas and ADM Capital, the AGRI3 Fund being set up with Rabobank as part of a new USD 1 billion commitment by Rabobank, and several other initiatives. Ivo Mulder has over thirteen years of professional experience working for UNEP, private consulting firms and with non-governmental organisations. He has published more than fifty reports, blogs and articles and sits on the Steering Group of the Natural Capital Coalition, the NCFA, the GEF Good Growth Partnership and the GEF Supply Change Project. LinkedIn
Steve Swan – Climate Finance and Climate Mitigation Unit, UNEP
Steve has over 20 years’ experience in forest management, governance and financing with a geographical focus on Southeast/East Asia. 15 of these years have been spent developing, coordinating and managing multidisciplinary projects and programmes financed both by public and private sectors. His technical expertise includes environmental and social frameworks and indicators for impact investment, environmental and social safeguards, and REDD+. Steve is currently UNEP’s Land-Use Finance Programme Environmental & Social Impact Coordinator, and part of the UN-REDD Programme management team. Prior to joining UNEP, Steve served as a Senior Technical Advisor on the SNV-Netherlands Development Organization’s REDD+ programme. LinkedIn
Jonty Knox, UNEP – WCMC
Jonty Knox oversees the work produced by UNEP-WCMC into the wider Land Use Finance programme. At UNEP-WCMC Jonty also oversees the Proteus Partnership (a collaboration designed to support extractive industry companies in the understanding and effective mitigation of impact on biodiversity) and is the Senior Technical Advisor under the Norwegian Environment Agencies Oil for Development programme. Jonty brings over a decade’s experience in quantifying the risks and opportunities corporate entities and civil society face concerning biodiversity and ecosystem services. He specializes in sustainable resource management, REDD+ and the waste management and extractive industries. LinkedIn
Aurelia Blin – Climate Finance Unit, UNEP
Aurelia oversees the communication and knowledge management activities. Former spokesperson at the World Trade Organisation and Programme Management Officer at the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Aurelia brings expertise with working with media, governments, development finance institutions, private investors and national development actors with a record of public and private coalitions that have contributed to leverage climate resilient investments such as the G7 InsuResilience target and fund. Also founder of Sustainability Impact, she offered expertise in designing communications and actions to support public-private collaboration for sustainable and climate finance such as the Swiss-based Building Bridges initiative and summit - where finance and SDGs connect aiming at accelerating impact investments. LinkedIn
Leo Murphy, UNEP – WCMC
Leo’s manages UNEP-WCMC's workstream under the Land Use Finance Programme, where his focus is on mitigating environmental and social risk and demonstrating positive impacts of investments in sustainable land-use. His wider role at UNEP-WCMC centres on the measurement of corporate biodiversity impacts, leading on the development of the Biodiversity Indicators for Site-based Impacts methodology and the biodiversity module of ENCORE. He also works on mapping environmentally sensitivity areas for national governments under the Oil for Development programme. Leo has over 5 years’ experience in environmental consultancy and communication, having most recently been the lead ecologist for an environmental consultancy based in Singapore. LinkedIn
Julie Dimitrijevic, UNEP – WCMC
Julie is a marine biologist working on the Business and Biodiversity team at UNEP-WCMC. She works primarily on natural capital and indicator related projects and leads the Aligning Biodiversity Measures for Business collaboration within the programme. By taking scientific information and synthesising it into easy-to-interpret materials, Julie ensures UNEP-WCMC’s business partners are kept well informed and up to date on pertinent biodiversity information. Previously she applied her completed Environmental Impact Assessments on the marine and terrestrial wildlife teams in western Canada, and worked for an environmental NGO investigating the effects of microplastics in the marine environment. LinkedIn
Luca Koerner, UNEP – WCMC
As an Associate Programme Officer at UNEP-WCMC, Luca supports a variety of projects within the Business and Biodiversity Programme with background research and data analysis. His work currently includes providing technical support to the Oil for Development programme and the Proteus partnership as well as the Land Use Finance Unit. He previously held positions at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GiZ), focusing on extractives sector governance and CDP, where he developed an expertise in working with private sector companies on identifying and engaging their environmental risks and opportunities. LinkedIn
