Maurice Button, Chief Executive, City & Financial Global

Chris Podgorney, Product Manager, Isometric

London as a centre for the carbon markets

Baroness Penn, Treasury Lords Minister, HM Treasury; Co-Chair of the Transition Plan Taskforce

Latest developments in the international carbon markets

Chris Leeds, Executive Director, Head of Carbon Markets Development, Standard Chartered

Towards high-integrity credits in the voluntary carbon markets (VCMs): the work programme of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)

Annette Nazareth, Chair of the Board, The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market 

How will the relationship between the mandatory and voluntary markets evolve?

Moderator

Maria Eugenia Filmanovic, Co-founder, Abatable

Panellists 

Ruben Vermeeren, Deputy Head of Unit, DG CLIMA, European Commission

Chris Webb, Managing Director, Global Head of Carbon Markets, HSBC

Gordon Bennett, Managing Director, Utility Markets, ICE

Eron Bloomgarden, Founder & CEO, Emergent

Improving the quality, governance, transparency, and claiming of carbon credits in the VCMs – the ICVCM’s Core Carbon Principles and the CCP Category-level Announcement, and the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative’s Claims Code of Conduct

Moderator 

Tommy Ricketts, CEO & Co-founder, BeZero Carbon

Panellists 

William McDonnell, Chief Operating Officer, The Integrity Council for The Voluntary Carbon Market

Mark Kenber, Executive Director, VCMI

Kerstin Mathias, Policy & Innovation Director, City of London Corporation

Andrew Howard, Senior Director, Climate Policy and Strategy, Verra

Creating the required infrastructure for efficient carbon markets - trade, post-trade, financing, and data 

Moderator 

Gordon Bennett, Managing Director, Utility Markets, ICE

Panellists

Marisa Buchanan, Senior Vice President, Low Carbon Solutions - BP Trading & Shipping

Dr Raúl Rosales, Senior Executive Fellow, Centre for Climate Finance and Investment, Imperial College Business School

Melissa Lindsay, Founder & CEO, Emstream & Emsurge

Dr Helen Bray, Vice President Policy, Puro.earth

Raising the bar: scientific rigor & transparency in carbon removal verification

Lukas May, Head of Expansion and Policy, Isometric

The role of financial institutions in the development of the carbon markets – trading, investment and liquidity

Moderator

Ingrid York, Partner, White & Case

Panellists

Martin Berg, Chief Executive Officer, Climate Asset Management

Simon Puleston Jones, Chief Executive Officer, Climate Solutions

Brett Orlando, Managing Director, Global Head of Commodity Transition, Bank of America

Carbon removal credits – providing certainty for corporate users 

Antti Vihavainen, CEO, Puro.earth

Belinda Ellington, Consultant, Ellington Resolution Ltd; former MD and General Counsel for Commodities and ESG, Citi

A focus on the demand-side: How are corporates reacting to the move towards high-integrity credits in the VCMs? What are the projections for demand?

Moderator 

Ellen Lourie, NCS & Aviation Director, IETA

Panellists

Tom Williams, Director, Food & Agriculture, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Emilien Hoet, Managing Director, UK, ClimatePartner

Trevor Allen, Head of Sustainability Research at Markets 360, BNP Paribas

Developing a high integrity biodiversity credit market

Moderator 

Jeremy Eppel, Principal, NatureFinance, and Co-Founder, Eppel Sustainability

Panellists

Dr Tim Coles OBE, Director and Chief Executive Officer, rePLANET, and Member, BCA Task Force

Anna Lehmann, Global Director Policy and External Affairs, Wildlife Works

Dr Helen Crowley, Managing Director, Pollination

Dr Helen Bray, Vice President Policy, Puro.earth

Speaker

Erica Johnson, External Affairs Manager, Agreena