A new key biodiversity platform for cross sectoral collaboration
For its inaugural launch, World Biodiversity Summit will help define what world leaders and the private sector in biodiversity and climate action need to do in the medium and long term to achieve sustainable development and hinder further biodiversity loss, focusing on partnerships and investment mechanisms as levers of progress. World Biodiversity Summit is a platform for responding to accelerating biodiversity loss, by using the Paris Agreement as a framework to learn from, promoting relevant solutions, innovations, and leadership networks, strengthening nature restoration and conservation. Nature-based solutions will be highlighted, from specificecosystems to global possibilities.
Anders Schelde
CIO of AkademikerPension
Anders Schelde is the Chief Investment Officer at AkademikerPension in Denmark, where he and his team oversee the management of the scheme's DKK149bn investment portfolio on behalf its 147.000 scheme members. Climate investment and climate risks is an integrated part of the investment strategy, and the fund has set ambitious targets for its “green” investments as well as its GHG reductions.
Furthermore, the fund has conducted broad based divestments of its fossil fuel related investments. Before joining AkademikerPension in 2017, Mr. Schelde worked at Nordea Wealth Management for 18 years in various positions, including 8 years as the CIO of Nordea Life and Pension, Denmark. He holds an MSc in Economics and an MBA.