ABU DHABI,
(WAM) — Razan Al Mubarak, President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and United Nations Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP28, has joined the Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) as Co-Chair.
Al Mubarak will be working alongside David Craig, founder and CEO of Refinitiv, one of the largest data and technology platform providers to financial markets operating in over 160 countries.
Al Mubarak is replacing Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment).
In her new capacity as Co-Chair, Al Mubarak will help lead the Taskforce’s efforts to embed the TNFD recommendations in the global corporate reporting architecture aligned with the commitment of over 190 governments around the world to Target 15 of the Global Biodiversity Framework.
“I am honoured to be stepping into the role of Co-Chair of the TNFD at this critical juncture. COP28 highlighted that business and finance now accept that climate change and nature loss are not separate challenges, but inextricably linked as integrated planetary systems. We can’t get to net zero without nature,” she said.
She added, “Businesses and financial institutions of all sizes across all sectors and geographies need to start managing their interface with nature as their most important supply chain and value creation partner.”
David Craig, who has served as Co-Chair since the TNFD, said, “I am delighted to welcome Razan to the TNFD as my Co-Chair for this next phase of TNFD’s mission to align to global reporting standards and build market confidence and capabilities to take action in the face of accelerating nature loss. As was the case with Elizabeth Mrema’s leadership of the CBD Secretariat and her stewardship of the landmark Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework throughout the first phase of our work, the TNFD will benefit from Razan’s lifelong commitment to conservation and biodiversity and her global leadership and tireless advocacy at the nexus of climate and nature challenges as President of the IUCN and as COP28 Climate Champion.”
Elected IUCN President in 2021, Razan Al Mubarak is the first woman from the West Asia region to lead the organisation in its 72-year history and its first Arab president since 1978. As the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP28, she has global business and finance engagement, advocating for a more integrated and holistic approach to practical action on climate change with nature at its heart.
