On 2 December, the second instalment of our 2025 Scheme Sessions webinar series will explore nature related risks and opportunities in pension scheme investments, why nature is an important issue for trustees to consider, and how nature related investing aligns with the Government's growth agenda.

Nature underpins our society and economy, here in the UK, and globally. It provides everything from food, drinking water and clean air, to materials for construction and production of countless goods and services in our day-to-day lives. Infrastructure and industries have developed around these needs, and so the loss of nature, and of biodiversity, has an obvious detrimental social and economic impact. It is not surprising then that the Pensions Regulator says pension schemes cannot ignore nature related risk.

The discussion will be chaired by Jason Coates, Partner in the Gowling WLG pensions team. He will be joined by Ben Stansfield, Partner and Head of Sustainability at Gowling WLG, Mark Thompson, Executive Chair of the UBS Pension & Life Assurance Scheme Investment Committee, and Bobby Riddaway, Chair of the Trustees Sustainability Working Group. Our expert panel will delve into these important issues and will be talking about their own experiences with nature related risks and opportunities, the obstacles that can occur on the journey to sustainable investing, and how they might be overcome.

The webinar will start at 12:00 on Tuesday 2 December and will last approximately one hour, including time for questions.