UN-PRI side event: Taking TNFD to your Board of Directors

Event

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 was co-hosted as a side event to the UNPRI In-Person Conference, by the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), the Institute for Sustainable Finance and CPA Canada, at the Smith School of Business Campus in Toronto.

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, and
sustainable 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.