Episode 15: Leading Private Sector Action for a Nature Positive Future with Tim Christophersen, VP, Climate Action @ Salesforce

Tim Christophersen leads Salesforce’s nature positive strategy - internally defining Salesforce’s nature-related goals and how to meet them, partnering with other corporations to help them advance action for nature, and driving cross-sector partnerships to unlock nature-based solutions at scale. Tim shares the challenges for nature-based solutions investments and corporate action today, provides his take on the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD) and other recent regulatory and standards developments, discusses misconceptions in the market today, and gives tips on how to make the business case for nature in the private sector.

In this episode, we also touch on:  

• Tim’s journey from the UN to Salesforce

• The role of regulators and supranational organizations in driving impact for nature

• Why Tim chose to join Salesforce in particular

• How Tim makes the business case internally and externally for nature

• Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD) and how it can be made more approachable to corporates

• Tim’s perspectives on the future of biodiversity markets

• Misconceptions of nature-based solutions in the market today

• Financing barriers and the status of the pipeline of nature-based projects

• The role of philanthropy in unlocking capital

• How to get involved in nature-positive action

Want to learn more? Check out these resources:

• Salesforce’s nature positive strategy

• Salesforce goes ‘nature positive’ 

• Salesforce outlines strategy to boost private sector support for nature conservation and restoration

• Salesforce’s FY23 Impact Report - A nature positive future

• GIST Impact study on “natural farming through a wide-angle lens: true cost accounting study of community managed natural farming in andhra pradesh, india”

• UN Decade on Restoration

Episode recorded on: July 21, 2023