Driving sustainable investment in African Mining

Candice Dott

Director of Market Engagement Taskforce on Nature Related Financial Disclosure (TNFD)

Candice is an accomplished business leader known for driving sustainable growth, with 20+ years of experience in global financial services where she has most recently worked for the London Stock Exchange Group and prior to that Bloomberg. 
She has deep expertise in sustainable finance, asset management, investment banking, commercial banking, corporates, central banks, exchanges, fintech and data.  
Candice has extensive global sales, business development, customer and strategy execution leadership experience across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa. 
She is passionate about connecting ecosystem partners and stakeholders for greater impact and has established networks across financial services, developing and mature markets, and public and private sector. 
Candice lives in Johannesburg and enjoys traveling, nature, trail running and trekking.


2025 Agenda Sessions

Future-Proofing African Mining: Building resilience across Nature, Water and Forests for People and

  • The Interconnection of Water, Forests, and Nature: How is African mining contributing to the regeneration/preservation of ecosystems? 
  • Can leveraging voluntary Nature-related Financial Disclosures like the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) provide more transparency and accountability helping build more resilient business practices? Can we see tangible evidence of delivering action on the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) which includes 23 action targets and 4 high level goals?  
  • Government policy, regulation and global frameworks: What are governments’ plans to integrate protection of nature into their mining policies and actions?  Will there be changes in regulations moving forward? 
  • Empowering local communities and enhancing social resilience: Collaborative approaches to sustainable mining. 
  • Will support the majority of this work? 

Wednesday 05 February 10:00 - 11:00 CTICC1

Sustainability Series

Add to calendar 02/05/2025 10:00 02/05/2025 11:00 Future-Proofing African Mining: Building resilience across Nature, Water and Forests for People and
  • The Interconnection of Water, Forests, and Nature: How is African mining contributing to the regeneration/preservation of ecosystems? 
  • Can leveraging voluntary Nature-related Financial Disclosures like the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) provide more transparency and accountability helping build more resilient business practices? Can we see tangible evidence of delivering action on the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) which includes 23 action targets and 4 high level goals?  
  • Government policy, regulation and global frameworks: What are governments’ plans to integrate protection of nature into their mining policies and actions?  Will there be changes in regulations moving forward? 
  • Empowering local communities and enhancing social resilience: Collaborative approaches to sustainable mining. 
  • Will support the majority of this work? 
CTICC1 Africa/Johannesburg