Beyond Climate: Shifting Focus to Nature

Global & Future Trends
Industry Knowledge
Professionalism & Ethics
Risk
CPD: 1 Hour(s)

Join Audrey van Herwaarden from the Australian Conservation Foundation, and Heidi Aspinall from Suncorp Bank for a discussion on the importance of climate change risks to financial institutions, and why you will start to hear more about nature and biodiversity in the coming years.

Some key notes:

What are climate change and nature-related risks and why it is relevant to financial institutions
Risk management frameworks for climate and nature-related issues
Incoming requirements from regulators and government
Progress and initiatives from global and domestic Australian institutions

Participants may be able to apply for 1 hour towards meeting their annual continuing professional development obligations. It is the individual's obligation to determine the relevance of CPD to their license conditions. Please see our terms and conditions and privacy policy.

Audrey van Herwaarden

Corporate Environmental Performance Analyst, Australian Conservation Foundation

Audrey is the Corporate Environmental Performance Analyst at the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Australia’s national environmental non-government organisation.

She has a background in banking and sustainable finance and currently leads the ACF’s research and analysis of corporate sustainability reporting and policy engagement on sustainable finance.

Heidi Aspinall

Sustainability Strategy Manager, Suncorp Bank

Heidi Aspinall is Sustainability Strategy Manager at Suncorp Bank. She develops, leads and coordinates the program of work and technical ESG team that delivers on the sustainability and wellbeing elements of the Bank’s strategy and ambition to deliver banking that’s good for customers and good for the world.