The Global Biodiversity Framework clearly recognizes the role of businesses and financial institutions in achieving all the targets of the framework and a growing community of these actors recognise they cannot sustainably grow their business, or achieve their climate goals, without protecting and restoring nature. This 30-minute fireside chat explores how businesses are responding to the Nature Positive Challenge and what assistance is at hand to help.
Lisa Genasci
Managing Director, Sustainable Finance
Managing Director, Sustainable Finance
Lisa is a Managing Director for ADM Capital Climate and Sustainability Advisor for the ADM Capital direct lending funds, an innovative philanthropic vehicle established to support critical research and impact-driven approaches to promoting environmental conservation in Asia. Lisa has also helped lead private credit manager ADM Capital’s ESG integration, heads the ADMC ESG Committee and sits as an observer to the ADMC Investment Advisory Committee.
My Sustainability Goals for 2023:
To push for change across some of our most intransigent environmental challenges: Our depleting oceans, the nexus between forestry and development, air quality and public health, the intersections among food, energy and water.
Kristian Teleki
Chief Executive Officer
Fauna & Flora
Fauna & Flora
Chief Executive Officer
Prior to joining Fauna & Flora as the Chief Executive Officer in 2023, Kristian was the Global Director of the Ocean programme at the World Resources Institute, where he also led the Ocean Action Agenda at the World Economic Forum and the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy with sitting heads of state and government from around the world. Kristian has had an impressive career in wildlife conservation; starting out in coral reef research, he’s since held several high-level roles in environmental and conservation organisations, including with the Prince of Wales’s International Sustainability Unit, Global Ocean Commission, and the UNEP – World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC). Kristian has degrees from University of California, Santa Barbara (summa cum laude) and Cambridge University.
Our mission is to understand how our environmental and economic systems are evolving, and to take those insights as a starting point to protect biodiversity, natural resources, reduce system stresses and build resilience. Working across three key programme areas; Living Oceans, Protecting Wildlife & Landscapes Leveraging Finance (Water, Carbon & Nature).