Climate Capital Live 2022 - Hybrid | Financial Times | 7 March 2022 | Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane, Hamilton Pl, London W1J 7DR, UK

Accelerating Climate Action to Achieve Net-Zero

As we move beyond the pandemic, it is clear that climate change is the most pertinent and existential crisis facing the world. As the latest IPCC report highlighted it is an all encompassing challenge, impacting all spheres of life and every region of the world and unless there are rapid, sustained and large-scale reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C will be beyond reach. Whilst the Paris Agreement has been in place for six years now, there has been a lot of talk and little action. It is clear the time for action is now.

FT Climate Capital Live 2022 is a platform for politicians, business leaders and financiers to evaluate the risks and opportunities they face in light of the climate crisis. Providing actionable insights on how regulatory changes, business strategies and innovative financing structures are moving the world forward to achieve net-zero goals and rapidly reduce GHG emissions through action rather than talk. Building on the success of the 2021 event, FT Climate Capital Live is growing to reflect the scale of the climate challenge.

Key themes will include:

• Gender & Climate Change
It is widely accepted that climate change disproportionately disadvantages women and girls. On International Women’s Day we are hosting a session that considers strategies on how to mitigate the impacts of climate change on women, as well as how to put women at the centre of strategy and implementation of climate projects.

• Decarbonising Our World
Sessions will include a regional spotlight on whether the EU carbon border tax should be extended to be made a global one, evaluate the impacts of the energy transition, as well as host a debate on whether carbon offsetting is a solution or a con?

• Using Capital to Protect Our Climate
As the investment community raises trillions of dollars to combat climate change we will evaluate what is the best use of that capital, how do you measure its impact and can you protect the public from bearing the cost of the transition to net zero?

• Global Food Systems & Nature Based Solutions
With almost a quarter of global GHG emissions from agriculture and land misuse it is clear that the opportunity nature based solutions pose has to be ceased. Sessions will consider how we can rapidly improve biodiversity, modernise global food systems and reduce agricultural waste. The future of global food systems will debate whether fake meat is the future?

• Standardising & Benchmarking Targets
Climate related disclosures have become a critical element in businesses day to day; but what they should consist of, what level of detail they should provide and how they should be standardised is still a point of confusion and debate.

• Supporting the Global South’s Adaptation Progress
Following a year of even more devastating climate events it is critical to evaluate what emerging nations are doing to adapt to climate change and what support is needed to protect communities from future climate related disasters.

2022 Speakers

Mia Mottley
Prime Minister, Government of Barbados

Laurence Tubiana
CEO, European Climate Foundation

Alok Sharma
President, COP26

Rania Al-Mashat
Minister of International Cooperation, Arab Republic of Egypt

Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Lord Adair Turner
Chair, Energy Transitions Commission

Stephanie von Friedeburg
Senior Vice President, Operations, IFC

Minister H.E Aminath Shauna
Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Technology, Government of the Maldives

Alison Rose
CEO, NatWest

Alexandra Farmer
Head of ESG & Impact Practice, Kirkland & Ellis

Anders Porsborg-Smith
Managing Director & Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Andrew Steer
President, Bezos Earth Fund

Angel Hsu
Director, EnviroPolicy Lab

Bahare Haghshenas
Global Head of Sustainable Transformation, EQT

Barry Parkin
Chief Procurement & Sustainability Officer, Mars

Bianca Pitt
Co-Founder, SHE Climate Changes

Bill McKibben
Activist and Founder, Third Act

Charlotte Degot
Managing Director & Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Chiara Medioli
Chief Sustainability & Communications Officer, Fedrigoni

Constance Chalchat
Head of CIB Company Engagement & Global Markets Chief Sustainability Officer, BNP Paribas

Curtis Ravenel
Founding Member & Secretariat, Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures

Cyndi Rhoades
Founder, Worn Again Technologies

David Sandalow
Inaugural Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University

Debbie Luffman
Founder, ThinkCircular

Dennis Woodside
President, Impossible Foods

Michal Meidan
Director of the Gas Research Program, Oxford Institute For Energy Studies

Hugh Sealy
Co-Chair, Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market

Parag Khanna
Founder, FutureMap

Stefanos Fotiou
Head, UN Food Systems Coordination Hub, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN.’

Thomas Hale
Founder & CEO, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Elio Leoni Sceti
Co-Founder and Chief Craftor, The Craftory

Elizabeth Lewis
Managing Director and Deputy Head of ESG, Blackstone

Eriola Beetz
Managing Director & Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Filip Engel
Senior Vice President of Sustainability and Public Affairs, Orsted

Fiona Frick
CEO, Unigestion

Francesco Curto
Global Head of Research, DWS

Gonzalo Sáenz de Miera,
Global Director of Climate Change and Alliances, Iberdrola

Graeme Cooper
Head Of Futures Markets, National Grid

Greg Jackson
CEO & Founder, Octopus Energy

Guilia Carbone
Director, Natural Climate Solutions Alliance, WBCSD

Helen Mountford
President & CEO, Climateworks Foundation

Henry Gordon-Smith
CEO, Agritecture

Huw van Steenis
Senior Advisor to CEO, UBS

Ita Kettleborough
Deputy-Director, Energy Transitions Commission

Jack Harries
CoFounder & Creative Director, Earthrise

Jean Case
Case Impact Network, CEO

Jennifer Bisceglie
CEO, Interos

Jennifer Grancio
CEO, Engine No.1

Louisa Casson
Executive Director, Greenpeace International

Jerome Foster II
Executive Director & Founder, OneMillionOfUs

Jill Duggan
Executive Director, Environmental Defense Fund Europe

Johanna Fager Wettergren
Head of Sustainable Finance, Finansinspektionen Sweden

Jonah Goldman
Breakthrough Energy, Managing Director

Jonathan Sims
Senior Analyst, Carbon Tracker Initiative

Jonathan Winer
CO-CEO, Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners

Katya Akulinicheva
CFO, ZeroAvia

Ken Murphy
CEO, Tesco

Kim Stanley Robinson
Author, The Ministry of the Future

Kingsmill Bond
Energy Strategist, RMI

Laetitia De Marez
Director, CFAN

Laura Tozzi
Chief Energy Modeller, International Energy Agency

Leslie Johnston
CEO, Laudes Foundation

Lubomila Jordanova
CEO & Co-Founder, planA

Mafalda Duarte
CEO, Climate Investment Funds

Magali Anderson
Chief Sustainability and Innovation Officer, Holcim

Magi Richani
CEO, Nobell Foods

Marc Engel
Chief Supply Chain Officer, Unilever

Maria Kozloski
Senior Vice President of Innovative Finance, The Rockefeller Foundation

María Mendiluce
CEO, We Mean Business Coalition

Marilyn Waite
Managing Director, Climate Finance Fund

Mark Watts
Executive Director, C40 Cities

Martin Pei
Executive Vice President & CTO, SSAB AB

Matt Brittin
President, EMEA, Google

Michel Fredeau
Managing Director & Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Nathan Fabian
Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Principles for Responsible Investment

Pamela MacDougall
Senior Manager, Grid Modernisation Engineering and Strategy, Environmental Defense Fund

Preeti Sinha
Executive Secretary, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

Rachel Kyte
Dean, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Rebecca Shaw
Chief Scientist, WWF

Renaud Bettin
Head of Climate Action, Sweep

Richard Black
Senior Associate, Energy & Climate Change Intelligence Unit

Robyn O'Brien
Co-Founder and Managing Director, rePlant Capital

Rodney Ferguson
CEO, Winrock International

Ruth Knox
Partner, ESG & Impact, Kirkland & Ellis

Salome Galjaard
Strategist Circular Economy, City of Amsterdam

Sarah Ladislaw
Managing Director, RMI

Stanley Kwong
EMEA Head of Sustainable Investing, KKR

Stephan Sicars
Director, Directorate of Environment and Energy, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation

Sue Szabo
Director General, Innovative and Climate Finance, Global Affairs Canada

Sylvain Vanston
Executive Director, Climate Change Investment Researcher, MSCI

Tanya Steele
CEO, WWF

Tom Jensen
Co-Founder & CEO, FREYR Battery

Tom Szaky
Founder & CEO, Terracycle/Loop

Tom Williams
Senior Director, WBSCD

Vanessa Nakate
Climate Activist

Vivek Pathak
Director and Global Head of Climate Business, IFC

Walter Stahel
Founder & Director, Product-Life Institute

Yuika Okuda
International Business Development, Spread

MODERATORS:

Pilita Clark
Associate Editor and Business Columnist, Financial Times

Leslie Hook
Environment and Clean Energy Correspondent, Financial Times

Emiliya Mychasuk
Climate Editor, Financial Times

Roula Khalaf
Financial Times

2022 Sponsors and Partners

LEAD SPONSORS:
• Boston Consulting Group
• Iberdrola
• The Rockefeller Foundation
• Spencer Stuart

LEGAL PARTNER:
• Kirkland & Ellis

SUSTAINABLE FINANCE PARTNER:
• BNP Paribas

ASSOCIATE SPONSORS:
• Blackstone
• DWS
• Fedrigoni
• MSCI
• NatWest
• Sweep
• Tesco