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IIGCC 2003 Conference

IIGCC Conference 26 November 2003
Gibson Hall, London
Supported by the Carbon Trust

Agenda

8.40 Registration & Coffee
9.00 Welcome
Raj Thamotheram, Chair, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change
9.15 Climate change: The wider implications for UK plc and the long-term investor
  This session will provide a broader picture of the climate change debate and what it could mean for companies and investors.
Chair
Raj Thamotheram, Chair, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change
  Key Note Address
Climate Change - What Next?
Lord Browne of Madingley, Group Chief Executive, BP
View Key Note Address
  Speakers
Martin Parry, Co-Chair, Impacts & Adaptation Working Group, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - View Presentation

Robert Napier, Chief Executive Officer, WWF-UK - View Presentation

Sir Graeme Davies, Chairman, Universities Superannuation Scheme Ltd - View Presentation

Ariane van Buren, Investor Network on Climate Risk - View Presentation - View Handouts
10.45 Coffee Break
11.15 Informing investor decisions: Identifying risks and opportunities from carbon exposure
This session focuses on how various players in the investment sector are responding to climate change. It will outline actions to date and lessons learnt.
  Chair
Peter Scales, Chief Executive, London Pensions Fund Authority
  Speakers
Pamela Heck, Property & Casualty Business Group - Climate Adviser, Swiss Re View Presentation

Chris Rowland, Head of Utitlities Research, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein View Presentation

Sue Livingston, Director of SRI, Schroder Investment Management View Presentation, View IIGCC Sector Reports

James Cameron, Chair, Carbon Disclosure Project

Paul McNamara, Director, Head of Research, Prudential Property Investment Managers View Presentation, View Public Policy Timeline
13.00 Lunch
14.15 Climate change policy: The implications for investors
  The session will introduce the public policy debate and as its main focus will provide the Secretary of State with an opportunity to outline the Government's views on climate change as an investment issue. There will be opportunity for questions to be taken from the floor.

Chair
Tom Burke, Environmental Policy Adviser, Rio Tinto
  Speakers
Nick Robins, Head of SRI Research, Henderson Global Investors View Presentation

Robin Batchelor, Director, Energy and Energy Technologies, Merrill Lynch Investment Managers View Presentation
  Key Note Address
Climate Change Policy - why it matters to investors
The Rt Hon Margaret Beckett MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) View Speech
15.30 Tea Break
15.50 Plenary discussion: Outcomes and actions
  This final panel will reflect on the days' discussions and consider further steps to encourage the market to take climate change into account more fully.

Chair
Tom Delay, Chief Executive Officer, The Carbon Trust
  Panellists
Ann Robinson, Board Member, London Pensions Fund Authority, and former Director General, National Association of Pension Funds

Philippe Lespinard, Chief Investment Officer, BNP Paribas Asset Management

Mark Brown, Global Head of Research, ABN Amro
16.30 Concluding Remarks
  Tom Delay, Chief Executive Officer, The Carbon Trust

Raj Thamotheram, Chair, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change
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