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Nature - Business and Investor Risk, Climate Solution, and Geo-Competitive Opportunity
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Our global economy is 100% dependent on nature, yet nature has historically mainly been uncounted and increasingly at risk. Positively, this is now changing, as businesses and investors consider their assets dependency on nature's bounty, investments flow into nature assets as ways to secure low-cost carbon offsets, and nature markets are emerging as tomorrow's geo-competitive opportunities. The challenge in this pivot is to ensure that the monetization of nature delivers nature positive, equitable outcomes.
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Simon Zadek
Chair of Finance
Biodiversity
Simon Zadek is chair of Finance for Biodiversity, director of Migrant Nation, and senior advisor to the Nature Related Financial Disclosure task force. He was head of the Secretariat, UN Secretary General's task force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals, senior advisor on finance in the office of the UN Secretary-General, and co-director of UNEP's Finance Inquiry. He co-chaired China's Green Finance Task Force and led the Green Finance Study Group secretariat under the Chinese, German and Argentinian G20 Presidencies.
Before this, he was senior advisor to the World Economic Forum and the Global Green Growth Institute, founder and CEO of the international think tank, AccountAbility and development director of the New Economics Foundation. He was visiting professor at the Singapore Management University and the Copenhagen Business School and has been a senior fellow at Tsinghua School of Economics and Management, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and the University of Southern Africa.
He has worked with many corporations, governments and multi-stakeholder initiatives on sustainability and broader strategies. He has been a member of the International Advisory Board of Generation Investment Management and has published extensively, including The Civil Corporation's award-winning book.