Business.2010 newsletter: Financial Services

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• From the Secretariat
  Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
• In context: financial services
• Think global, act local
  Martin Hancock, Chief Operating Officer, Westpac, London; Chair, UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)

  Emma Herd, Senior Advisor, Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, Westpac, Sydney
• Failing biodiversity... up till now
  Philippe Spicher, CEO, Centre Info SA - Sustainable Investment Consulting
• A different investment in forests
  Rachel Kyte, Director of Environmental and Social Development, International Finance Corporation
• Convincing financial markets to value biodiversity
  Robert Barrington, Director, Governance & Sustainable Investment, F&C Asset Management

  Sagarika Chatterjee, Senior Analyst, F&C Asset Management
• Principles as a point of leverage
  Mark Eckstein, Associate, Sustainable Finance Ltd; former specialist, International Finance Corporation
• People, biodiversity and banking in South Africa
  Justin Smith, Head: Governance and Sustainability, Nedbank
• Enhancing livelihoods
  James Mwangi, Managing Director and CEO, Equity Bank Ltd
• Creating a new asset class
  David Brand, Managing Director, New Forests Pty Limited
• Uncontrolled risks, untapped opportunities
  Annelisa Grigg, Chief coordinator for the finance sector and activities on climate change, Fauna and Flora International (FFI)

  Richard Burrett, Head of Sustainability, ABN AMRO Bank N.V.; Chair, UNEPFI's Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Workstream (BESW)
• Banques francaises et biodiversite, un etat des lieux
  Marlene Morin, consultante, Grant Thornton ecodurable, France
• The view from Dubai
  Abbe Le Pelley, Manager for Consulting and Training, Dubai Ethics Resource Centre
• Coping with the next challenge
  Ivo Mulder, market developer and strategic advisor, Dutch Fund for Nature Development (Groenfonds)
• An investment holding for biodiversity
  Kristina Jahn, Senior Consultant, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC)
• Building biodversity business
  Francis Vorhies, President, Sustainable Development International S.A.

  Joshua Bishop, Senior Advisor, Economics and the Environment, the World Conservation Union (IUCN)

  Sachin Kapila, Group Biodiversity Advisor, Shell International Ltd

  Franck Hicks, President, Sustainable Development International S.A.

  Paul Mitchell, Director, Green Horizons Environmental Consultants Ltd
• Making green
  Andrew Bovarnick, UNDP's Biodiversity Economist
• Spotlight on COP-9 preparations: Questions on biodiversity and business at COP-9
  Jochen Flasbarth, Director-General for Nature Conservation of Germany's Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
• Assessing biodiversity partnerships
  Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers, researcher, Utrecht-Nijmegenm Programme on Partnerships (UNPOP), Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation, Utrecht University
• The formula for ethical capitalism
  W. Richard "Dick" Monroe, Founding Director, Darden Environmental Trust and Governor, the International Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources (IFCNR)