Agenda

Here's what's scheduled for the event. All times are in BST.

8:30 AM
Registration, networking & morning coffee
 
9:10 AM
Conference introduction

Maurice Button, Chief Executive, City & Financial Global

9:15 AM
Morning Chair’s opening remarks

Kathrine Meloni, Special Adviser and Head of Treasury Insight, Slaughter and May

9:20 AM
Keynote address

Opportunities for the UK in Transition Finance

Vanessa Havard-Williams, Chair, The Transition Finance Market Review

9:35 AM
Panel

Developing an effective framework for the transition finance market via clear definitions and guiding principles/standards

Moderator

James Roe, Partner, A&O Shearman 

Panellists

Vanessa Havard-Williams, Chair, The Transition Finance Market Review

Councillor Irem Yerdelen, Lead Member for Sustainable Finance, City of London Corporation

Simone Utermarck, Senior Director, Sustainable Finance, International Capital Market Association (ICMA)

10:15 AM
Case study

Transition finance in action

Daniel Hanna, Group Head of Sustainable and Transition Finance, Barclays

Andrew Cunningham, CEO, GeoPura

10:35 AM
Panel

Scaling up transition finance solutions: general purpose corporate financing vs labelled products, such as green/sustainability-linked (and potentially transition-linked) bonds and loans

Moderator

Caroline Phillips, Partner, Head of Debt Capital Markets, Slaughter and May 

Panellists

Nicola Doria, Centre for Carbon Transition Executive Director, J.P. Morgan

Sean Kidney, Chief Executive Officer, Climate Bonds Initiative

Gemma Lawrence-Pardew, Director - Legal and Head of Sustainability, Loan Market Association (LMA)

11:20 AM
Networking & morning coffee
 
11:40 AM
Panel

The role of public finance institutions in developing blended finance to de-risk transition financing

Moderator

Scott O’Brien, Chief Investment Officer, Innovate UK & Innovate UK Loans Limited

Panellists

James Emmett, Chief Operating Officer, UK Infrastructure Bank

Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE, Chief Executive Officer, Green Finance Institute

Mark Munro, Chief Investment Officer, The Scottish National Investment Bank

12:20 PM
Panel

Market tools to unlock private finance for nascent technologies: including mandatory, voluntary and international carbon markets, insurance and private capital

Moderator

Matthew Townsend, Partner, Global Co-Head of the Environmental, Climate and Regulatory Law Group, A&O Shearman

Panellists

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

Julian Richardson, Chief Underwriting Officer, Green Solutions, Munich Re Specialty

Giulia Carbone, Director, Nature for Climate, The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

1:05 PM
Networking & lunch break
 
2:00 PM
Afternoon chair’s opening remarks

James Roe, Partner, A&O Shearman

2:05 PM
Panel

The role of investors in transition finance

Moderator

Kerry King, Executive Director, Capital Markets, Accounting for Sustainability (A4S)

Panellists

Thomas Tayler, Head of Climate Finance, Aviva Investors

Bridget Beals,Sustainable Finance Advisor, Independent

Annika Brouwer, Sustainability Specialist, Ninety One 

2:45 PM
Panel

Transition plans as an integral element of transition finance, including metrics and KPIs

Moderator

Spencer Powell, Director of Climate Finance, Just Climate

Panellists

Kate Levick, Associate Director, Finance & Resilience, Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G); Co-Head, Secretariat, Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT)

James Close, Head of Climate Change, NatWest

Ion Visinovschi, Senior Research Analyst, Planet Tracker

3:25 PM
Networking & afternoon tea break
 
3:50 PM
Panel

Lessons from international developments in transition finance and the need to work towards international harmonisation of standards reflecting regional and national pathways

Moderator

Mark Manning, Visiting Senior Fellow, Centre for Economic Transition Expertise

Panellists

Chee Hao Lam, Chief Representative, London Office, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)

Pietro Rocco, Head of Sustainable Finance, Carbon Trust

Bridget Beals, Sustainable Finance Advisor, Independent

4:30 PM
Panel

Developing a robust data and disclosure ecosystem

Moderator

Martina Macpherson, Head of ESG Product Strategy and Chair, Sustainability Risks, Products and Services Council, SIX

Panellists

Sue Armstrong-Brown, Director for Thought Leadership, CDP 

Elena Pérez Celis, Head of Policy & Public Affairs, Bankers for Net Zero

5:10 PM
Chair’s closing remarks

James Roe, Partner, A&O Shearman

5:15 PM
Close of proceedings
 

Video recording

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