Simon Peevers
Senior Advisor External Communications, Bristol, United Kingdom +44 1454 667 587
Atkins joins the forum along with world leading organizations in sectors such as finance and energy as well as government departments and environment specialists. Membership of the Forum, which supports the Taskforce’s work and TNFD’s mission in general, will not only enable Atkins to contribute its expertise and knowledge, but also build on that expertise to support its clients.
Claire Wansbury, associate director for ecology at Atkins, said membership of the Forum enables Atkins to ensure it is well positioned to make a difference in how it operates and its impact on nature.
She adds: “Through membership of this forum Atkins is now contributing to a global and multi-disciplinary Taskforce addressing a global emergency, where we are able to share our expertise and insights into the issue, and be a part of a consultative network of over 400 supporters of the TNFD.
“It really places Atkins at the forefront of the conversation, which informs how we advise our customers accordingly.
“It’s an important position to be in and brings together our combined knowledge and expertise of valuing, and assessing impacts on, the natural world, our delivery excellence in Nature-based opportunities, and our experience in relation to the Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) framework.
“It's also about the impact we can have on what we're doing as a business. Approaches such as natural flood management for example have a better impact on the environment, and enable us to understand the implications of what we're doing and how it all fits together.
“If you affect one area, what is the impact elsewhere and how does that affect the natural balance of the landscape you’re working in? Ultimately, we will be helping businesses including our clients, make better decisions about their impact on nature.”
The TNFD was set up in recognition that damage to the natural world through business activity creates a number of long-term risks. However, financial institutions and companies don’t necessarily have the information they need to understand how nature impacts its financial performance.
According to the TNFD better information will, ‘allow financial institutions and companies to incorporate nature-related risks and opportunities into their strategic planning, risk management and asset allocation decisions’.
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About Atkins
Atkins (www.atkinsglobal.com) is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies, employing over 19,000 people across the UK, North America, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and Europe. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas.
About SNC-Lavalin
Founded in 1911, SNC-Lavalin is a fully integrated professional services and project management company with offices around the world dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, technology and data to design, deliver and operate the most complex projects. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. – and delivered to clients in key strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear, Operations & Maintenance and Capital. News and information are available at snclavalin.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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