Agenda

7 March 2023 | BAFTA (All times in GMT)

11:00am–12:30pm

Registration

11:30am–12:30pm

Lunch

12:35pm–12:45pm

Welcome Remarks

Sandra A. Urie, Chair Emeritus, Cambridge Associates

12:45pm–1:30pm

Ownership in Action Through Effective Engagement

Carola van Lamoen, Head of Sustainable Investing & Managing Director, Robeco
Victoria Sant, Investment Committee, The National Trust
Moderated by Marie Ang, Director, Sustainable & Impact Investing, Cambridge Associates

How can investors put forth their views on biodiversity action, DEI or corporate governance? Engagement is an integral part of both investment and stewardship activity. It is purposeful dialogue with a specific and targeted objective to achieve change, enabling asset owners and asset managers put stewardship into practice. This conversation will show how asset owners have applied their values and mission, sought to enhance the value of their assets and effectively brought their voice to the table. The panel will include discussion of asset owner actions, asset managers programmes and collaborative industry groups that work to move the needle on material issues.

1:30pm–2:15pm

Tackling the Hard Questions

Caroline Cook, Head of Climate, Ballie Gifford
Nazmeera Moola, Chief Sustainability Officer, Ninety One
Evelina Olago, Managing Director, Client Strategy, Just Climate
Moderated by Simon Hallett, Head of Climate, Cambridge Associates

The energy transition offers attractive investment opportunities in exciting new technologies that leverage renewable energy. But as we bring on the new, we must contend with the old since realistic decarbonisation depends on tackling  some knotty problems: How to support decarbonisation of the ‘hard to abate’ heavy industrial sectors and less developed economies while enabling a just transition? And what to think about exposure to fossil fuels? This panel discusses how investors may navigate this time of industrial ‘re-tooling’, making attractive returns while driving real world change where it is most needed.

2:15pm–2:55pm

Coffee Break

2:55pm–3:40pm

Asset Owner’s Perspective – How to Maximise Impact

Dame Caroline Mason, Chief Executive Officer, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Mark Preston, Chief Executive Officer, Skagen Conscience Capital
Joanna Wright, Head of Responsible Investment, The Health Foundation
Moderated by Annachiara Marcandalli, European Head of Sustainability and Impact, Cambridge Associates

This session will explore how asset owners can use multiple levers to accelerate their impact.

We will hear from a panel of three asset owners who will share what they have learned in their journey so far. Each will share their unique perspective, from helping to shape their organisation’s impact focus, to how to engage with managers and measure their progress over time through to describing their efforts at collaborating with other asset owners and with collective groups to maximise impact.

3:40pm–4:10pm

Nature Restoration as an Asset Class

Ben Goldsmith, Chief Executive, Menhaden Resource Efficiency Plc
Introduction by Annachiara Marcandalli, European Head of Impact, Cambridge Associates

4:10pm–4:55pm

What Really Works?

Dr. Ellen Quigley, Special Advisor to the Chief Financial Officer, Senior Research Associate, Climate Risk and Sustainable Finance at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), University of Cambridge

Introduction by Simon Hallett, Head of Climate, Cambridge Associates

4:55pm–5:00pm

Closing Remarks 

Simon Hallett, Head of Climate, Cambridge Associates

5:00pm–7:00pm

Networking Reception

*Agenda is subject to change

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