NET ZERO CARBON CONFERENCE 2022

The Rt. Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben, set up and now runs Sancroft, a Corporate Responsibility consultancy working with blue-chip companies around the world on environmental, social and ethical issues.  Lord Deben is Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, Valpak Limited, and the Personal Investment Management & Financial Advisers Association. He was the longest serving Secretary of State for the Environment the UK has ever had (1993-97).  His sixteen years of top-level ministerial experience also include Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries & Food, Minister for London, Employment Minister and Paymaster General in HM Treasury.  He has consistently championed an identity between environmental concerns and business sense.

Peter Uhlenbruch is interim Director of Financial Sector Standards at ShareAction, where he overseas financial sector research, campaigning and engagement workstreams that aim to deliver higher responsible investment standards across the asset management, insurance and banking sectors. Since joining ShareAction in 2018 he has established the leading practice workstream for investors and is the lead author of Winning Climate Strategies (covering asset owners), Insuring a Low Carbon Future (covering insurers) and co-author of ShareAction’s leading practice guide for asset managers on responsible investment. Prior to joining ShareAction, Peter taught business ethics at various Australian universities, and since the mid-2000s has worked across the ESG space in varying roles from proxy voting analyst for Ownership Matters, ESG analyst for MSCI and climate governance consultant for CDP.

Richard is a Science Fellow and manages work on generating and applying regional climate information and modelling systems with a focus on international development. Lead author of the Regional Context chapter (21) and the Summary for Policy Makers of the IPCC Working Group 2 contribution to Assessment Report Five focusing on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. He was a lead author of the regional climate information chapters of IPCC Assessment Reports Three (Chapter 10) and Four (Chapter 11). He led the development of the regional climate modelling system PRECIS and has worked with institutes across all continents in the fields of climate prediction and climate scenario development.

Charlene is founder of Economy of Good, a platform to help people make ‘good money’ a non-negotiable feature of a clean, green and kind lifestyle. She is also Finance Associate at the regenerative economy think tank and advisory firm, Volans. Charlene is chartered in sustainable investment and finance and has worked across the industry for nearly a decade in campaigns, policy, research and education roles at UKSIF and Eurosif. Interests include climate action, active ownership in retail, financial literacy and seeing more truly sustainable options for our investments and finances.

Natalie Kenway is global head of ESG insight for ESG Clarity and has been an investment journalist for 16 years. She won Editor of the Year at the Aviva Investors Sustainability Media Awards 2021, and was Winner of Aegon Asset Management’s Institutional Journalist of the Year for 2020 and 2021.

Elisabeth leads content strategy at fintech Util, which uses machine learning to uncover relationships between companies and social and environmental themes. Her newsletter on sustainable finance and data—the Week in Impact—reaches an audience of over 5,000 investors, and she has authored research featuring in major titles including the FT. Elisabeth has previously held writing positions at global asset managers LGIM and T. Rowe Price, focusing on sustainability and structural trends in technology, energy and demographics. She tweets about fintech and investments @Elisabeth_Steyn