For bringing the wealth of nature into our homes.

David Attenborough has used his platform as a presenter and gifted storyteller to bring us to places we may have never otherwise known existed and introduce us to nature we may have never otherwise cared so much about. 

His documentaries taught me from a really young age that we must preserve nature as it is our home, and he did this without lecturing, without blame, but with humor and poise. He communicated so much insight into the natural world, and yet left space for me to internalize my own conclusions about the value and fragility of nature.

He ingrained in me and probably millions of others around the world a moral and intellectual responsibility to respect and protect the natural world we live in.  

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Günther Thallinger is a member of the board of Allianz SE, the Germany-based, globally operating insurance company. It is a founding member of the largest asset owner commitment to climate action to date, comprising 12 members together representing over $2 trillion dollars, announced at the United Nations Secretary General’s Climate Action Summit on 23 September 2019. 

David Attenborough is an English broadcaster and natural historian. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series forming the Life collection that together constitute a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth. 
 

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