Webinar
Beyond Climate: Shifting Focus to Nature
Join representatives from the Australian Conservation Foundation and Suncorp Bank for a discussion on the importance of climate change risks to financial institutions, and why you will start to hear more about nature and biodiversity.
Join Audrey van Herwaarden from the Australian Conservation Foundation, and Heidi Aspinall from Suncorp Bank for a discussion on the importance of climate change risks to financial institutions, and why you will start to hear more about nature and biodiversity in the coming years.
Some key notes:
- What are climate change and nature-related risks and why it is relevant to financial institutions
- Risk management frameworks for climate and nature-related issues
- Incoming requirements from regulators and government
- Progress and initiatives from global and domestic Australian institutions

Audrey van Herwaarden
Audrey is the Corporate Environmental Performance Analyst at the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Australia’s national environmental non-government organisation.
She has a background in banking and sustainable finance and currently leads the ACF’s research and analysis of corporate sustainability reporting and policy engagement on sustainable finance.

Heidi Aspinall
Heidi Aspinall is Sustainability Strategy Manager at Suncorp Bank. She develops, leads and coordinates the program of work and technical ESG team that delivers on the sustainability and wellbeing elements of the Bank’s strategy and ambition to deliver banking that’s good for customers and good for the world.
2 October 2024, 12:30pm AEST
2 October 2024, 1:30pm AEST