Introductory session: Putting nature on the balance sheet

Event information

Nature is fast becoming a core strategic management issue for businesses, affecting financial performance, competitiveness and long-term resilience. This session will explore the central role that finance teams play in enabling companies to respond, integrating nature into core accounting and financial processes to support decision-making across business functions. ​

This session is primarily designed for finance professionals who are new to nature-related topics and to those that already have some experience and wish to advance further. Additionally, it is also aimed at sustainability teams wishing to communicate more effectively with finance teams to help enable cross functional collaboration and decision-making.

This webinar is organised in collaboration with WBCSD as part of the A Track ‘Embed Nature’ capacity building programme. Find out more here.

Key benefits

• Understand why nature is a strategic management issue for businesses, and how nature risk translates to financial risk.
• Support better business decision-making and resilient business strategies by integrating nature into the activities and processes of the finance function. 
• Discuss real-world examples (case studies) where businesses have successfully embedded nature into finance and accounting processes.

About the speakers

	Rosie Dunscombe, Founder, Blue Crane Consulting  Rosie specialises in integrating sustainability into accounting and business strategy. A Chartered Accountant with a Masters in environmental economics, she has 20 years of experience in accounting and sustainability. Her work includes sustainability training for accountants, finance integration, and capitals assessments. Rosie authored the ICAEW’s Sustainability Certificate, led the Capitals Coalition’s Biodiversity Guidance, and serves on the International Sustainability Standards Board’s Technical Reference Group.
	Richard Spencer, Director - Sustainability, ICAEW Richard joined ICAEW in 2005 to set up the sustainability practice within Reputation and Influence department. During this time Richard has led on the ICAEW’s thought leadership and engagement programme in sustainability.
	Facilitator: Toby Roxburgh, Sustainability Manager - Nature & Biodiversity, ICAEW Toby is a member of ICAEW’s sustainability team and leads the institute’s work on nature. He brings over 25 years’ experience in sustainability, including previous roles at Deloitte, WWF and in consultancy. His work focuses on engaging and collaborating with members to help embed sustainability-related issues into risk assessment, strategy, finance and reporting – and sustainable policy and regulation. He is a member of the Global Accounting Alliance Sustainability Working Group, and was formerly a member of several Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) working groups and UK Transition Plan Taskforce Nature Working Group.

CPD hours

ICAEW's revised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Regulations bring in new CPD requirements. This includes a minimum number of hours and an ethics requirement. Attending this webinar could contribute up to 1 hour of verifiable CPD, providing you can demonstrate that the content is relevant to your role.

A copy of the webinar booking confirmation email is accepted as evidence of verifiable CPD. You will need to save the email as a JPEG or PDF before uploading it to your record. Click here to use ICAEW’s self-assessment tool to help you work out how much CPD you will need to fulfil each year.

Costs

This webinar is free to attend. 

ICAEW members and non-members are welcome to join. This event is organised by the Sustainability & Climate Change Community. Please click here to join online.