LIVE STREAMING

To offer the possibility to others interested in joining us virtually at the EBNS sessions taking place in plenary will be live streamed. Please, click on the following links which will be active on Nov 7th and Nov 8th respectively:

• Nov 7th: Building action for nature an people: the role of business sector and financial institutions

• Nov 8th: Public private alliance and innovations to leverage business actions

The European Business and Nature Summit will provide:

• A forum to share the most recent progresses made by businesses and financial institutions to better account for their impacts and dependencies on nature.

• A forum to engage businesses in integrating biodiversity and natural capital and related risks and opportunities into their decision making and on methodologies to inform decisions.

• A place to collect and celebrate actions, methodologies and commitments to generate net positive impact for nature by the business community feeding into a New Deal for Nature and People.

• The EBNS will bring together representatives from businesses and financial institutions, but also governments and civil society to share best business practice and facilitate action to halt the loss of biodiversity.

Background:

An Action Agenda for Nature and People was launched at the United Nations (UN) Biodiversity Conference in 2018. This agenda aims to catalyse actions from all sectors and stakeholders of society in support of biodiversity, and support the adoption of an ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework at the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the Convention on Biological Diversity taking place in 2020. This New Deal for Nature and People will, in its turn, be a basis for the post-2020 EU biodiversity strategy.

Seizing this global momentum the EBNS will strengthen the role of businesses in supporting nature conservation and its sustainable use. Supporting the Action Agenda for Nature and People the summit represents a key milestone in the engagement of businesses in this process and their commitments to nature conservation.

The EBNS is a two-day summit on business, biodiversity and natural capital co-organised by the European Business and Biodiversity Platform (European Commission), Ecoacsa, Fundación Empresa y Clima, Fundación Biodiversidad from Ministry for Ecological Transition – through the Spanish Business and Biodiversity Initiative – and the Ministry of the Environment of Finland and hosted by CaixaForum Madrid.

Moderator: Ms Eva Zabey, Executive Director, Business for Nature

PL 1 — 9:30-10:00 Welcoming remarks

Mr Thomas Verheye, Principal Advisor Green Finance & Investment, European Commission.

Mr Hugo Morán Fernández, State Secretary for Environment, Ministry of Ecological Transition, Spain.

Ms Terhi Lehtonen, Secretary of State, Ministry of the Environment and Climate, Finland.

PL2 — 10:00-11:00 First high-level panel – Building action for nature and people

Message from: Mr David Cooper, Deputy ES, UN Convention on Biological Diversity.

Ms Anne Larigauderie, Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

Mr Valentín Alfaya, President of the Spanish Green Growth Group.

Mr Joris van Toor, Strategy Advisor, Dutch Central Bank.

Ms Alice Durand-Reville, Director of Corporate and Public Affairs, Danone.

PL3 —11:30 – 12:45 - Second high-level panel - Kick-starting a European business commitment for nature

Mr Christian Heller, Vice President BASF & CEO value balancing alliance.

Mr Jan-Willem Straatsma, Member of Global Sustainability Team, Friesland Campina.

Mr Willem Ferwerda, CEO & Founder, Commonland.

Mr Gautier Quéru, Director, Land Degradation Neutrality Fund (LDN Fund), Mirova.

GS1 —14:00 – 15:15 - Business for Nature Coalition: progress on building commitments

Mr Martin Lok, Deputy Director of the Natural Capital Coalition.

Mr João Wengorovius Meneses, Secretary General, Business Council for Sustainable Development Portugal, BCSD

Ms Sylvie Gillet, Head of Biodiversity, Health and Environment, Entreprises pour l'Environnement

Mr Bas Rüter, Director of Sustainability, Rabobank

GS2 —14:00 – 15:15 - Business training on natural capital

Ms Katia Bonga, Associate, Redefining Value, WBCSD.

Ms Nadine McCormick, Programme Officer, IUCN Business & Biodiversity Programme.

GS3 —14:00 – 15:15 - Target and measure net positive biodiversity impact from a finance perspective

Ms Anne-Marie Bor, Finance Workstream Leader, B @ B EU Platform and Founder and Process Manager of NextGreen.

Mr Roel Nozeman, Senior Advisory Biodiversity, ASN Bank.

Mr Wijnand Broer, Partner, CREM.

Ms Sophie Ménard, Environmental Economist, CDC Biodiversité.

GS4 — 15:45 - 17:00 - Towards common ground in biodiversity measurement approaches for business

Mr Johan Lammerant, Arcadis, Natural Capital Accounting workstream leader, EU B@B Platform.

Ms Julie Dimitrijevic, Associate Programme Officer, UNEP-WCMC.

Mr Valentín Alfaya, H&S, Quality and Environment Director, Ferrovial & Ms. Sandra Magro, CEO and Founder. Creando Redes.

Ms An de Schryver, Environmental Footprint Team, DG ENV, European Commission.

GS5 — 15:45 - 17:00 - Towards Finance for Nature and enabling Accounting, Reporting and Disclosure Systems'

Ms Anne-Marie Bor, Lead Workstream Finance EU Business@Biodiversity Platform.

Ms Anita de Horde, Finance expert Workstream Finance EU Business@Biodiversity Platform.

Mr Joshua Berger, Project Manager, Global Biodiversity Score, CDC Biodiversité.

Ms Sandra Castañeda, Director of Corporate Development, Triodos Bank Spain.

Ms Katia Karousakis, Team leader and environmental economist, OECD.

Mr Nicholas Macfarlane, Scientist and Technical Advisor, IUCN Science-based Targets team.

Ms Katie Leach, Senior Programme Officer, UNEP-WCMC.

Ms Sharon Machado, Portfolio Head of Business Reporting, ACCA.

Ms Anna Krotova, Manager, GRI,

Ms Jacqueline Jackson, Account Director, Trucost/S&P.

GS6 — 15:45 - 17:00 - Boosting sustainability innovation through biodiversity

Mr David Álvarez, CEO, Ecoacsa.

Ms Rosario Chan, Senior Manager, Global Sustainable Development, LafargeHolcim; and Raúl Pérez, Sustainable Development & Health and Safety Director at LafargeHolcim Spain.

Mr Antonio Calvo, Sustainability and External Relationships, Grupo Red Eléctrica.

Mr Isaac Nájera, Global Lead, Environment – Exploration & Production, Repsol.

Ms Rodrigo Fernández-Mellado, Director, Biodiversity Node.

PL4 — 17:00 - 17:40 - Connecting the dots for Business and Nature

Mr Peter White, Ambassador, COP-15/Biodiversity, WBCSD.

Rapporteurs from each session.

PL5 — 17:50 - 18:00 - Closing session: Lessons learned from Day 1

Moderator: Ms Eva Zabey, Executive Director, Business for Nature.

PL6 — 09:00 - 09:30 - Welcoming remarks

Mr Daniel Calleja, Director General for Environment, DG Environment, European Commission.

Mr Marco Lambertini, Director General, WWF International.

Mr Peter White, Ambassador, COP-15/Biodiversity, WBCSD.

GS7 — 09:30 – 10:40 - Investing in green infrastructure and nature-based solutions at the local level

Mr Efrén Feliu, Climate Change Manager of Tecnalia and member of the Nature-based Solutions Working Group of Fundación Conama.

Mr Andrés Alcántara, Corporate Development Department Director, UICN Mediterranean

Ms Margarida Parés, Head of Biodiversity Programme, City of Barcelona.

Mr Michael Schwarze-Rodrian, EU Representative of the Regional Association Ruhr in Germany.

GS8 —09:20 – 10:40 - Strategies and frameworks to engage businesses on biodiversity

Mr Mark van Oorschot, Nature and Rural Areas Department of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL).

Mr Javier Cachón, General Director for Biodiversity and Environmental Quality, Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition.

Mr Timo Lehesvirta, Sustainable Forestry Lead, Forest, Global, UPM.

Ms Terhi Lehtonen, Secretary of State, Ministry of the Environment, Finland.

Mr Steven Dickinson, DG/PSR/HSE/EES/ENV, Senior Environment Adviser, Biodiversity and Water, Total.

Ms Veronica Veneziano, Project Manager, Biodiversity in Good Company.

Ms Claire Varret, Head of biodiversity, EDF/Act4Nature, France.

GS9 —09:20 – 10:40 - Combining forces: building the bridge between natural capital approaches

Mr Carl Obst, Director, IDEEA Group.

Mr Johan Lammerant, Arcadis, Natural Capital Accounting workstream leader, EU B@B Platform.

Ms Marta Santamaria, Policy Director, Natural Capital Coalition.

Mr Mark Eigenraam, Director, IDEEA Group.

Mr Óscar Rico, Natural Capital Officer, IUCN.

Mr Fernando Santos, Professor, Chemical and Environmental Technology Department, Rey Juan Carlos University

GS10 — 11:00 —12:15 - Linking the biodiversity and circular economy agendas

Mr Brendan Edgerton, Director Circular Economy, WBCSD.

Ms An De Schryver, Environmental Footprint Team, DG Environment, European Commission

Ms Andrea Weigel, Group Sustainability Manager, Clariant

Ms Raquel Canales, Project Manager, Circular Economy Cluster, Forética.

Mr Eduardo Fernández Rodríguez, Environment and Sustainability Corporate Department, Naturgy.

GS11 — 11:00 —12:15 - Engaging with biodiversity throughout the supply chain

Ms Alison von Ketteler, Ecosystem Services Program, FSC International.

Mr Eduardo de Miguel, Director, Fundación Global Nature.

Mr Eduardo Reinhardt Franchini, Agronomy Manager, Japan Tobacco International.

Ms. Sara Navarro, Director, Sara Navarro

Ms. Dinnorah Suárez Lesmes, Director, Canarias Sostenible

GS12 — 11:00 —12:15 - Finance roundtable

Mr Joaquín Garralda, President, Spainsif.

Ms Sandra González, Director of Responsible Banking, CaixaBank.

Mr Tomás Conde, ESG specialist, Spanish Association for Investor Relations, ARIE.

Ms Julia Salazar, Sales Director, Amundi AM.

Mr Antonio Panagiotopoulos, Senior ESG Analyst, MSCI.

PL7 — 12:15 - 13:30 High-level panel

Mr Thomas Verheye, Principal Advisor Green Finance & Investment, European Commission.

Ms Bernedine Bos, Director of Services, CSR Europe.

Ms Kimberly Nicole Pope, Community and Project Lead, Nature Action Agenda, World Economic Forum.

Mr Tom Vöge, Head of EU Affaris, International Chamber of Commerce.

Mr Mark Gough, CEO, Capitals Coalition.

Train-the-trainer workshop (We Value Nature) — 15:00-17:00

Ms Katia Bonga, Associate, Redifining Value (WBCSD)

Ms Nadine McCormick, Programme Officer, IUCN Business & Biodiversity Programme.

For further information, please send us an email to lars.mueller@ec.europa.eu or yann.verstraeten@icf.com, or davidalvarez@ecoacsa.com, mpferrer@ecoacsa.com or ecarles@empresaclima.org, cdomenech@empresaclima.org.

PARTICIPATION RULES

As stated in the event objectives, the European Business and Nature Summit is specifically targeted at decision-makers from businesses from all sectors and financial institutions. Organisers reserve the right to refuse any application which does not conform to the programme objectives in order to guarantee a wide variety of businesses and financial institutions representatives.

Registration requests will be assessed against these objectives by organisers who in the following days/weeks will confirm or deny each request by email.

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