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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
