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What is the Nature & Biodiversity Peer Group?

Why does the group exist?

What does the group do?

The Peer Group is a collaborative initiative for and by business leaders and practitioners tasked with setting and achieving nature and biodiversity targets in their organisations.    

We all want faster, more confident, better coordinated action to protect and restore nature and biodiversity that our people, planet, supply chains and economies rely upon.

Location-specific collaboration means we need a global, diverse, cross-sector community.

The Peer Group fosters collaboration through regular meetings (both virtual and in-person) where members share experiences, insights, advice and best practice examples.

The sessions also give everybody a chance to keep on top of the range of activities, projects and guidance coming from other initiatives.

GSK & Schneider Electric are Founding Partners of the
Nature and Biodiversity Peer Group

How you can take part

The Nature & Biodiversity Peer Group is an invite-only group of hundreds of business leaders and practitioners.

By joining us, you can:

Who is behind the Peer Group?

Oliver Hurrey has been getting equally excited and frustrated about sustainable business and responsible supply chains for over 19 years. He imagines a world where collaboration on sustainability is better co-ordinated; more focused on doing; and duplicates less effort. He advises and runs a number of projects and initiatives.

He founded and chairs the successful Scope 3 Peer Group - with over 800 global corporates collaborating and benchmarking best-practice supply chain emissions reduction. For the past 4 years, they have been making faster and more confident, collective progress to reduce supply chain emissions. As part of the core team of the Sustainable Procurement Pledge – he co-ordinates and chairs the Global Ambassador meetings and has created and developed the SPP’s Champions program, as well as supporting wider fund-raising efforts. He has also founded the Indirect Spend Alliance – which helps indirect procurement professionals understand the key human rights risks and emission reduction opportunities.

He believes we need better coordination and championing of initiatives & collaborations. Not more of them.

Melissa Miners has over 15 years’ experience in sustainability strategy, communications, external affairs and public policy. Melissa has spent the past ten years working in various roles to deliver Unilever’s sustainability strategy focussing on sustainable commodity production and more broadly on the thematic areas of climate, nature, circular economy and plastics. Before this, Melissa has held sustainability strategy and communications roles at the London Organisation Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games and the communications agency Hill & Knowlton. And separately gained experience working with the Green Party and Department of Conservation in New Zealand.

She has now left her Unilever role but is still consulting for Unilever plus external work. Her involvement in the Peer Group would be neutral and not as a representative of Unilever.

She also holds a role as Trustee of National Park City Foundation.

Nancy Gillis was the Director for Strategic Planning and Communications at The Nature Conservancy before her career took her to her latest role as the Programme Head of the First Movers Coalition at the World Economic. Prior to joining the Forum, Nancy was the CEO of the Global Electronics Council (GEC) and before that she served as the Global Lead for Resilient and Responsible Supply Chains at EY.

During the Obama Administration, Nancy was the Director of the Federal Supply Chain Office at the General Services Administration (GSA), the public procurement agency for the US government, where she was responsible for the inclusion of sustainability criteria in approximately $45 Billion of procurements.

Meet the Steering Team

  • Anna Willingshofer

    Chief Science and Innovation Officer
    Wildlife Habitat Council

  • Tom Newbigging

    Director, Procurement Sustainability, Nature
    GSK

  • Michaela Neto

    Senior Manager, Climate & Nature
    Burberry

  • Lucy Pickett

    Global Procurement Senior Sustainability Manager
    Roche

  • Per Bogstad

    Senior Manager, Sustainable Supply
    Haleon

  • Maeve Hall

    Sustainability Transformation Director - Nature
    Schneider Electric

  • Emma Howcroft

    Senior sustainability and sustainable sourcing professional
    Avantor

  • Carolina García Arbeláez

    Global Director for Nature
    Anheuser-Busch InBev

GSK & Schneider Electric are Founding Partners of the
Nature and Biodiversity Peer Group

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