Biodiversity loss highlighted by Lord Mayor

The Lord Mayor of the City of London Corporation Michael Mainelli hosted a Sustainability and Biodiversity Conference with the Rotary Club of London and the Zoological Society of London at Mansion House. This event was to address critical issues including biodiversity loss, sustainability, climate change, and green finance.

This conference brought together key stakeholders — nature and biodiversity specialists, institutional investors, financiers, and thought leaders who are instrumental in shaping the future of green finance. The Lord Mayor has called on companies to tackle biodiversity loss ans he discussed the impact climate change has on businesses globally. According to analysis by Green Finance, further deterioration in the UK’s natural environment could lead to a 12pc loss to GDP.

Panel discussions and speeches have included the integration of sustainability into the financial and professional services sectors, ecosystem recovery, and financing biodiversity.

“As a scientist by trade,” The Lord Mayor of the City of London Corporation, Michael Mainelli, said, “I am delighted to be able to use this platform as leader of the City of London Corporation – the world’s oldest democratic workers’ and residents’ cooperative – to help build closer ties between the science, tech, finance, and business communities.

“The City of London cares deeply about nature. We were the first government body to introduce a clean air act in 1953 and we’re on track to reach net zero in our own operations by 2027, while supporting net zero for the whole Square Mile by 2040.

“It is in all our interests – from an environmental, ethical, and business standpoint – to tackle biodiversity loss, and by being here today you are playing an important part in our cross-City effort to find solutions.”