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Welcome address: Alderwoman Dame Susan Langley DBE, Lady Mayor of the City of London
Keynote: Albert Cheung, Chief Executive Officer, BloombergNEF
Session 1: Transition Finance
Opening remarks:
Rt Hon Lord Alok Sharma KCMG, Chair, Transition Finance Council
Panel discussion: Country-level action
Moderator:
Councillor Irem Yerdelen, Deputy Chair of the Transition Finance Council, Lead Member for Sustainable Finance at City of London Corporation
Speakers:
Japan: Takako Onitsuka, Director of the Environmental Finance Office, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
UK: Vanessa Havard-Williams OBE, Chair, Transition Finance Market Review
Indonesia: Dr Friderica Widyasari Dewi, Chairperson of the Board of Commissioners, Indonesia Financial Services Authority
Panel discussion: Corporate-level action
Moderator:
Faith Ward MBE, Chair, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)
Speakers:
Angel Beltrán, Head of Sustainable Capital Markets & Solutions, Santander CIB
Ben Daly, Global Head of Transition Finance and Advisory, Standard Chartered
Jonathan Dunn, Vice President Climate, Anglo American
Keynote: Rachel Blake MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury
Session 2: From fragile to financeable – de risking carbon credit markets
In collaboration with The Coalition to Grow Carbon Markets
Moderator:
Jamie Fergusson, Global Climate Director, World Bank Group
Speakers:
Oi-Yee Choo, Chief Executive Officer, Climate Impact X
Rachel Kyte, United Kingdom’s Special Representative for Climate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Andrew Wilson, Deputy Secretary General - Policy, International Chamber of Commerce
Bill Winters CBE, Group Chief Executive, Standard Chartered
Mike Zehetmayr, Chair, UK Carbon Markets Forum
Closing remarks:
H.E. Raja Juli Antoni, Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia
Session 3: Adaptation, Resilience and pricing physical risk
In collaboration with UK Government Office for Science
Moderator:
Dr Nina Seega, Director, Centre for Sustainable Finance, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Speakers:
Professor Dame Angela McLean, UK Government Chief Scientific Advisor, Government Office for Science
Meryam Omi, Chief Executive, Arc
Claudia Prates, Director of Sustainability, CNseg
Swenja Surminski, Managing Director Climate and Sustainability, Marsh
Keynote: HE Minister Simsek, Minister of Finance, Republic of Turkiye
Session 4: City-level finance
In collaboration with C40 Cities
Opening remarks:
Mete Coban MBE, Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy, Mayor of London’s Office
Moderator:
Eugénie Birch, Member of the Secretariat, SDSN Global Commission for Urban SDG Finance
Speakers:
Bertrand Millot, Head of Sustainability, La Caisse
Councillor Susan Aitken, Leader of the Council, Glasgow City Council
Session 5: Nature Finance
In collaboration with Conservation International
Opening remarks:
Xiye Bastida, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Re-Earth Initiative, Lead Contributor for How to Live on Earth
Moderator:
Sebastian Troëng, Chief Executive Officer, Conservation International
Speakers:
Caitlin Clarke, Director of Policy & External Affairs, BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group
Tony Goldner, Chief Executive Officer, Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)
Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity
Closing remarks: James Thomson CBE, Deputy Chair of Policy, City of London Corporation