271. Getting Nature on the Balance Sheet
Outrage + Optimism
Persephonica
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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This week, Paul and Tom are joined by Tony Goldner, from the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures.
Tony helps make sense of what happened at the recent Biodiversity COP in Colombia and discusses the many ways that nature is starting to appear on business’ and regulators’ agendas. Companies are waking up to the fact that their resilience depends on the resilience of nature.
Many companies are in the process of developing and setting long-term transition plans to net-zero. Tony explains that as biodiversity and nature-loss risks mount, businesses need to also consider that nature-based dependencies, risks, and mitigations should be put in place.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello listeners. Welcome to this outrage and optimism bonus episode with me Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:18.5 | Today, we'd like to share with you a brilliant conversation we had last |
| 0:22.1 | week with Tony Goldner, the executive director of the Task Force on Nature-related financial |
| 0:27.4 | disclosures. Sorry, that's a bit of a mouthful. Tony helps us make sense of what was agreed |
| 0:32.4 | at the recent biodiversity cop in Colombia, and we look at how much it's dawning on people who are on boards or in |
| 0:38.7 | companies, that the resilience of their companies depends on the resilience of nature. |
| 0:48.4 | The gods of podcast recording have not smiled on our previous interviews with Tony. |
| 0:52.7 | Firstly, Christina had a conversation with him in the rainforest of Costa Rica that failed to record. |
| 0:57.6 | And then, during this recording last week, Cristiano was sadly unwell, |
| 1:01.4 | and Tom was here on Zoom at the beginning and then suffered a power cut and disappeared halfway through. |
| 1:06.7 | In spite of those technical hiccups, it is a fascinating conversation, and we hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:12.3 | Here is Tony Goldner. |
| 1:19.1 | Tony Goldner, executive director of TNFD, we're thrilled to have you on the podcast. |
| 1:23.0 | This has been a long time in coming and believe that Christiana has interviewed you before, |
| 1:27.4 | but there was a |
| 1:27.9 | mishap. And so sadly, the listeners didn't actually hear your wisdom, but we are going to correct |
| 1:32.7 | that today. And we're thrilled to talk to you. So thank you very much for joining Paul and I. |
| 1:37.5 | I'd like to just kick off by asking you, listeners to our podcast are pretty used to acronyms, |
| 1:43.4 | and many will have heard TNFD, others may not. |
| 1:46.2 | Can we just kick off with you explaining what does it stand for and what does it do? |
| 1:51.2 | Great. Well, nice to see you, Tom. So TNFD, named after our Big Sister initiative TCFD, so |
| 1:57.8 | task force on nature-related financial disclosures, obviously following the work of our |
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