Guernsey was represented at COP15 in Montreal in
December 2022. Director General of the Guernsey Financial Services
Commission, William Mason, and Commission Staff Officer, Tiffany
Moeller, share their thoughts on the conference.
Despite the corresponding UN Conventions being opened for
signatures at the same time, at the Earth Summit in 1992, climate
change has since become a mainstream topic. Nature, on the other
hand, continues to evoke images of burning rain forests, and the
faces of baby pandas – pictures connected to
philanthropy.
It was noticeable as we went around COP15 speaking formally and
informally, that the nature loss crisis (otherwise known as the
sixth great extinction) is well on the way to becoming mainstream
although still markedly behind climate change in terms of media
hours. This was the first ever Nature COP to have a day dedicated
to the connection between biodiversity and finance, something that
in the climate space has been happening for
