Storebrand AM has won the Collaborative Leadership for Nature award at the Finance for Biodiversity (FfB) Summit in Amsterdam. The FfB Member Progress Awards recognise and celebrate best practice among the finance community to accelerate action on nature loss and drive positive impact. The awards ceremony on 4 December rounded off the inaugural FfB summit – From Pledge to Progress – which brought together financial institutions, policymakers and sustainability leaders to tackle challenges, identify solutions and celebrate progress in biodiversity finance.
Jan Erik Saugestad (centre) at the summit with Mher Margaryan, Ambassador, Special envoy for CBD COP17 Armenian Presidency, Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary, UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Anita de Horde, Executive Director of FfB, and Sonya Likhtman, Director, Stewardship, Federated Hermes Limited, Co-chair of the FfB Public Policy Advocacy working group (left-to-right).
Storebrand AM received the award for demonstrating collaborative action for nature through its sustained, open and system-level approach to advancing biodiversity integration into finance, actively chairing the FfB Foundation’s Public Policy Advocacy working group, supporting global policy engagement efforts – including before and during the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP15 and COP16 – and its role as a founding partner of Nature Action 100 and active involvement in numerous collaborative initiatives related to biodiversity, including the UN PRI Collaboration Platform SPRING. Transparent reporting and a knowledge-sharing culture have also seen Storebrand AM recognised among the most mature institutions on Commitment 1 of the FfB Pledge (Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing), scoring highly in its Foundation’s Internal Members Progress Report (IMPR).
Jan Erik Saugestad, CEO of Storebrand AM, commented:
“We are delighted to have won this award which recognises our long-term commitment to nature and Storebrand’s role in leading the finance community to tackle and reverse biodiversity loss. Finance for Biodiversity is an invaluable platform that unites like-minded investors and demonstrates the important progress we can achieve through collaboration.”
Emine Isciel, Head of Climate and Environment at Storebrand AM, added:
"This award recognises more than Storebrand, it highlights a set of values and a community of people who believed in this work long before it reached a stage that could be celebrated. Congratulations to all of the award winners; let our success energize the finance industry to do more to protect nature – and to do better – in the coming years.”
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