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.
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Torben Möger Pedersen
CEO at PensionDanmark
Torben Möger Pedersen (b. 1955) is CEO of PensionDanmark – one of the largest pension funds in Denmark established in 1993.
PensionDanmark manages defined contribution pension plans, health care plans and life-long training programs based on collective agreements covering more than 754,000 blue-collar workers employed in 23,000 companies within the private and public sector. Total assets under management are EUR 36 billion and growing rapidly. A substantially part of the portfolio is direct investments in renewable energy infrastructure assets and sustainable real estate. PensionDanmark has received a great number of Awards for its groundbreaking investment strategy.
Torben Möger Pedersen holds a number of Danish board and investment committee memberships including Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Arbejdernes Landsbank, Insurance & Pension Denmark, Copenhagen Infrastructure Fund I, II and III, Danish Climate Investment Fund, Danish Agribusiness Fund, Danish SDG Investment Fund, SDG High Level Advisory Board, Danish Society for Education and Business (DSEB) and Board Leadership Society in Denmark. In November 2019, the Danish Government appointed Torben chairman of the Climate Partnership for the Financial Sector.
Internationally, Torben Möger Pedersen is a B-Team Leader and member of the Steering Committee of Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance. In addition, Torben Möger Pedersen is a member of OECDs Working Group on Long-Term Investments, the Private Sector Advisory Group within the UN’s Green Climate Fund, the Global Agenda Council on Investments and The Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders under the auspices of World Economic Forum and member of the Advisory Board in OECD’s Centre on Green Finance and Investment.
Torben is chairman of the Danish Climate Partnership on Finance, Vice Chair of IIGCC, Task Force Member of Sustainable Markets Initiative and member of WEF’s CEO Climate Leader Alliance. Torben Möger Pedersen holds a M.Sc. Economics from University of Copenhagen and is adjunct professor at CBS.