📺 The webinar
Biodiversity loss poses a significant risk to businesses, impacting supply chains, operations, and long-term resilience. Companies today stand at a crossroads: either contribute to the problem or become part of the solution. But what does meaningful corporate action on biodiversity look like?Join us for an insightful discussion featuring leading biodiversity experts from VELUX, WWF and Nordic Sustainability.
🗓️ Agenda
▪ David Færgeman sets the stage with an overview of the current state of biodiversity loss and its implications for businesses.
▪ Luise Jochimsen touches on WWF’s biodiversity stewardship work with corporates and how businesses can take science-based action to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.
▪ Katharina von Bieberstein showcases real-world examples of VELUX’s biodiversity strategy, including site-specific initiatives and long-term commitments to ecosystem restoration.
We will conclude the webinar with a live Q&A session, allowing you to engage directly with our expert panel.
🎙️ The speakers
Katharina von Bieberstein is a Sustainability Partner at VELUX, focusing on integrating biodiversity considerations into corporate practices. With over 15 years of international experience in environmental law and policy, Katharina has worked with organizations such as the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Germany’s Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), and the International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions (ICARS).
Luise Jochimsen is a Senior Biodiversity Stewardship Specialist at WWF Denmark, where she focuses on corporate biodiversity stewardship initiatives. Her role involves developing and implementing transformative partnerships from understanding footprint, risks, and impacts (with tools like WWF’s Biodiversity and Water Risk Filter), to taking action through strategy & targets, implementing conservation projects on the ground or collective action on value chains or specific scapes/basins.
David Færgeman is a Senior Consultant and biodiversity lead at Nordic Sustainability. He has extensive experience in assisting companies with environmental baseline assessments, strategy development, transition plans, and navigating the sustainability reporting directives stemming from the EU. Before joining Nordic, David worked in the agribusiness sector, with various positions in Denmark and abroad.
Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights into one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time.
Practicalities
📆 April 24th, 2025
⏰ 10:00 CET
📍 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88196485762
