Standardising Environmental and Social Impact in Land-Use Investment

             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