Breakfast Workshop - TCFD | TNFD for the Financial Sector: Challenges and Opportunities Based on Nature and Climate Change

Sandra has a master in Environment and Development graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), with 13 years of experience in sustainability management in the private sector, governmental institutions, and international cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Sandra has led projects in 14 countries on the following topics: environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) standards; sustainable finance; strategies for the prevention of socio-environmental conflicts; and local development plans, including approaches to social inclusion and productive diversification. She holds extensive experience as a facilitator of multi-stakeholder dialogue processes and speaker at the national and international level, both in the academic field and high-level platforms, such as the World Resources Forum (Geneva, 2021& 2017) XXXVI International Congress of the Association of Latin American Studies (Barcelona,2018), the 9th Latin American Congress on Politic Sciences (Montevideo, 2017), and the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences where received the Graduate Scholar Award (London, 2016).

Juan Guerra is an Associate Partner at ERM Colombia. He has more than 12 years of experience developing different environmental projects including climate change, emissions inventory, greenhouse gases, implementation of digital solutions (SAP Environmental Compliance Module Air, Water and Waste, Sphera), development of sustainability strategies, guidelines for the preparation of Sustainability reports (Global Reporting Initiative), execution of environmental audits for processes of acquisition, merger or transfer of properties, phase II environmental audits, as well as audits of compliance with environmental requirements in Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago. Additionally, he leads the Sustainable Finance services under different international standards such as the Performance Standards of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Equator Principles, IDB sustainability policy, among others; as well as the Corporate Sustainability and Climate Change services in the Colombian Business Unit.

Professional in government and international relations, specialist in integrated environmental management and master's degree in public policy with experience in supporting community organizations, green businesses, inter-institutional relations, impact investment, cooperation agreements, and the design and implementation of business acceleration projects consolidating value chains of biodiversity products and services.