Net Zero Festival 2022 | Incisive Media | 27 September 2022 | The Mermaid, Puddle Dock, London EC4V 3DB, UK

The 2021 Net Zero Festival brought together some of the world's foremost thinkers on what it takes to accelerate and expand the net zero transition. We'd urge business executives, investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and campaigners to watch back on demand to explore how to navigate the defining economic, political, and technological trend of the age.

The Net Zero Festival will return with a live face to face event this year!

The net zero transition is the defining economic, technological, and geopolitical trend of the age. It will create markets, catalyse innovations, and reshape societies. Every business will have to engage with it. The best businesses will lead it.

Because ‘business as usual’ is no longer an option. The climate crisis presents a real and present danger to global development and stability. With around 90 per cent of global GDP covered by net zero targets, the political and corporate consensus is that building a net zero emission economy is not just an era-defining opportunity, it is an all-encompassing necessity.

Inspire - Connect - Act
At the Net Zero Festival we understand that the demand now is for action and delivery.

The net zero transition is so broad and so rapid that it represents an enormous challenge to businesses of all shapes and sizes. As such, it is critical that organisations come together to jointly explore how best to accelerate climate action on multiple fronts and learn about the companies and projects that are demonstrating how a net-zero emission economy could be built inside 30 years.

Faster, Together.

2022 Speakers

James Murray
Editor-in-Chief, BusinessGreen

Lucy Siegle
Writer, Broadcaster and Environmentalist

Chris Stark
CEO, Climate Change Committee

Mark Campanale
Founder & Executive Chairman, Carbon Tracker

Bas Sudmeijer
Managing Director & Partner, BCG

James Ashall
Transformation Director, Spirit of Progress, Diageo

Julia Giannini
Group Head of Environment and Climate Action, Bupa

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

Maria Teresa Zappia
Chief Impact and Blended Finance Officer, Deputy CEO, BlueOrchard (Member of the Schroders Group)

Richard Lacaille
Executive Vice President & Global Head of ESG Initiatives, State Street

James Close
Head of Climate Change, NatWest Group

Alice Bell
Head of Climate and Health Policy, Wellcome Trust

David Halpern
CEO, The Behavioural Insights Team

Lorraine Whitmarsh
Professor of Environmental Psychology, University of Bath

Paul Dickinson
Co-host, Outrage + Optimism

Vanessa Nakate
Ugandan Climate Justice Activist; Founder of Youth for Future Africa

Matt Bell
Co-founder of the Young London Print Prize & chair of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.

Beverley Gower-Jones
Founder & Managing Partner / CEO, Clean Growth Fund / Carbon Limiting Technologies

Solitaire Townsend
Chief Solutionist & Co-Founder, Futerra

Emma Harvey
Programme Director, Green Finance Institute

Andrew Spencer
Energy and Carbon Services Director, EQUANS UK & Ireland

Colin White
Senior Housing Renewal Officer, Newcastle City Council

Jeremy Mathieu
Head of Sustainability, ITV

Gaby Hornsby
TV Lead for Sustainability, BBC

Carys Taylor
Director, Albert

Rachel Groenendijk
Senior Responsible Business Manager, Sky

Sam Jones
Head of Climate and Sustainability GB, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners

Gavin Ellis
Director & Co-founder, Hubbub

Helen Bird
Head of Business Collaboration, WRAP

Timiko Cranwell
Director of Legal and Corporate Affairs, Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I

Andrew Simms
Author, Analyst & Co-Director, New Weather Institute

Alexis Eyre
Sustainable Marketing Consultant, Green Eyre

Gemma Butler
Chief Community Officer, WeAre8

James Best
Chair of the Climate Action Working Group and of the advertising industry’s think tank, Credos.

Dr Matt Winning
Environmental researcher, comedian and author

Tom Rivett-Carnac
Founding Partner, Global Optimism

Christiana Figueras
Founding Partner, Global Optimism

Nina Hossain
Journalist and Broadcaster

Chris Skidmore
MP for Kingswood, & Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment

Tzeporah Berman
Chair, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

Dr Sally Uren
Chief Executive, Forum for the Future

Rain Newton-Smith
Chief Economist, Confederation of British Industry

Tim Lord
Head of Climate Change, Phoenix Group

Thomas Lingard
Global Head of Sustainability - Environment, Unilever

Beverley Cornaby
Programme Director, CISL

Freya Burton
Chief Sustainability Officer, LanzaTech

Mark Kenber
Executive Director, VCMI

Thomas Ball
Head of Business Advocacy, WWF

Isabel Hagbrink
Director of Communications, South Pole

Mairi McAllan
Minister for Environment and Land Reform

Joanne Etherton
Head of Climate, ClientEarth

Farhana Yamin
Lawyer, Author, Activist

Heather Buchanan
Co-founder, Bankers for NetZero

Bob Gordon
Director, Zero Carbon Forum

Henry Mance
Chief Features Editor, Financial Times

David Shukman
Speaker, Consultant, Writer

Wolfgang Blau
Co-Founder, Oxford Climate Journalism Network

Josephine Moulds
Finance and fossil fuels reporter, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Angela Hepworth
Commercial Director for Innovation, Drax

Jonathan Shopley
Managing Director of External Affairs, Climate Impact Partners

Rebekah Braswell
Co-founder & Chief Commercial Officer, Land Life Company

Alison Midgley
Senior Policy Analyst, WWF

Emma Woods
Director of Policy, Natural History Museum

Carolyn Ball
Director for Delivery of Net Zero, Compass Group

Dr Helena Wright
Policy Director, FAIRR

Robin Sundaram
Responsible Sourcing Manager, Nestlé UK & Ireland

Dustin Benton
Policy Director, Green Alliance

Shaun Spiers
Executive Director, Green Alliance

Gaia Vince
journalist, writer and broadcaster, and an honorary senior research fellow, UCL

2022 Partners

LEAD PARTNERS:
• BCG
• Schroders

COMMERCIAL PARTNERS:
• Bryt Energy
• Carbon Intelligence
• Coca Cola
• Clean Growth Fund
• Drax
• Equans
• National Grid
• Natwest Group
• Phoenix
• Schneider Electric
• South Pole
• Climate Impact Partners

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
• IEMA
• Rage To Zero
• Science Based Targets
• Sustainable Markets Intelligence
• We Mean Business
• WWF
• Aldersgate Group
• CDP
• University of Cambridge
• Forum for the Future
• Green Alliance

PARTNERS:
• A4s
• Albert
• Bankers for NetZero
• Carbon Tracker
• Conservative Environment Network
• Ceres
• Chapter Zero
• Fairr
• The Great Big Green Week
• Grantham Institute
• IIGCC
• Investment Week
• Little Sun
• London & Partners
• Netzeronow
• Share Action
• The Chancery Lane Project
• UK GBC
• Global Compact Network UK
• UN
• Wrap
• Zemo Partnership
• Zero Carbon Forum