Sustainability Week 2021: How do you unlock investment for the transition to net zero?

The Sustainability Week online event will explore how you can unlock investment for the transition to net zero. It will take place during Sustainability Week March 22 -25, 2021.  This event will help you to understand what it will take for investors to reallocate sufficient funds to achieve the energy transition. It will examine the structures and instruments are needed to support climate-friendly investing. It will also consider whether we need to redesign the financial system to fight climate change?

Christopher Ailman, the Chief investment officer at CalSTRS will address the question: “How do you unlock investment for net zero?” Andrew Bailey, the Governor at the Bank of England will speak to How the Bank of England is supporting the green recovery and Bill Winters the Chief executive at Standard Chartered will discuss “moving to a low-carbon future – why banks and companies need to step up”. 

Full Speaker List

• Bill Winters, Chief executive, Standard Chartered PLC
• Nico Rosberg, Sustainability entrepreneur and investor
• Andrew Bailey, Governor, Bank of England
• Christopher Ailman, Chief investment officer, CalSTRS
• Alok Sharma, Secretary of state, Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy PiaIKEA
• Pia Heidenmark Cook, Chief sustainability officer, Ingka Group
• Kwasi Kwarteng, Minister of state, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Carine Smith Ihenacho, Chief governance and compliance officer, Norges Bank Investment Management
• Marc Engel, Chief supply chain officer, Unilever
• Emma Howard Boyd, Chair, Environment Agency
• Tanya Steele, Chief executive, WWF-UK
• Eggsab inBev, Ezgi Barcenas
• Global vice president of sustainability, AB InBev
• Lucas Joppa, Chief environmental officer, Microsoft
• Andrew Morlet, Chief executive, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
• Chris Stark, Chief executive, UK Committee on Climate Change
• Jane Ewing, Senior vice president, sustainability, Walmart
• Nicholas Stern, Chair, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE
• Joe Sczurko, Executive president consulting, Wood AdamChurch of England
• Adam Matthews, Director, ethics and engagement, Church of England Pensions Board
• Kristen Sullivan, US sustainability services leader and global audit & assurance climate services leader, Deloitte
• Janine Guillot, Chief executive, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
• Halide Alagöz, Chief supply chain and sustainability officer, Ralph Lauren Corporation
• Jim O’Neill, Chair, Chatham House
• Virginijus Sinkevičius, Commissioner, environment, oceans and fisheries, European Commission
• Michael Cappucci, Director for compliance and sustainable investing, Harvard Management Company
• Lutfey Siddiqi, Managing director, CFA Institute, and visiting professor in practice, LSE IDEAS
• Olga Smirnova, Manager non-financial reporting, Heineken
• Peter McGuinness, President and chief operating officer, Chobani
• Colleen Vien, Sustainability director, Timberland
• Paul Dickinson, Executive chair, CDP
• Tom Delay, Chief executive, The Carbon Trust
• Corli Pretorius, Deputy director, UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre
• Peter Bakker, President and chief executive, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
• Maria Zuber, Vice president for research and E. A. Griswold professor of geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Dries Acke, Director, Energy Systems Programme, European Climate Foundation
• Laura Vicaria, CSR manager, Mud Jeans
• Carol Adams, Professor of accounting, Durham University
• Brendan Edgerton, Director, circular economy, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
• Paul Druckman, Chair, World Benchmarking Alliance Supervisory Board
• Daniel Franklin, Executive and diplomatic editor, The Economist
• Andrew Palmer, Executive editor, The Economist
• Charlotte Howard, New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor, The Economist
• Jan Piotrowski, Business editor, The Economist
• Kenneth Cukier, Senior editor, The Economist
• Peter Kiernan, Lead analyst, energy, The Economist Intelligence Unit, Economist Events, 
• Simon Wright, Industry editor, The Economist, Economist Events
• Helen Joyce, Executive editor, The Economist