Carbon Conference: Abate and Compensate

Explore how off setting your unavoidable emissions could be a viable option for you to advance your net zero progress. Join Make UK and ICE at Broadway House, Westminster on the 14th November at 13:30 – 17:30 for an in-person event to support manufacturers and other companies in making decisions regarding purchasing nature-based carbon sequestration projects with real confidence around integrity and value

This event is aimed at any business, small or large, seeking to advance on their net zero pathway and will help in making decisions regarding purchasing nature-based carbon sequestration projects with real confidence around integrity and value. Attendance is ideally suited for anyone in an environmental, sustainability, finance, or purchasing role.

Agenda:

– 13:30 Refreshments & Networking

– 14:00 The Imperative – Stephen Phipson CBE, CEO, Make UK

– 14:10 How can U.K companies help lead the world in the mitigation of climate risk and deliver a net zero pathway? Nigel Topping (CMG, Business Champion for the UK Climate Change Committee, former UN Climate Change High-Level champion) & Gordon Bennett, Managing Director, ICE

– 14:30 Panel: How to measure carbon footprints and why compensation may drive the best abatement

o Girish Narula, Head of Sustainable Finance, ICE

o Guy Turner, Founder and CEO, Trove Research

o Dr Mirabelle Muûls, Associate Professor in Economics & Co-Director of the Hitachi-Imperial Centre for Decarbonisation and Natural Climate Solutions, Imperial College Business School

o John MacArthur, Visiting Professor Net Zero Energy Transition, Imperial College (Moderator)

– 13:10 Panel: How to get comfortable compensating through investing in carbon credits

o Tommy Ricketts, Co-Founder & CEO, BeZero Carbon

o Ed Mitchard, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Space Intelligence

o Clive de Ruig, President, ICE Benchmark Administration

o Brazilian Carbon Markets Initiative – TBC

o Steve George, Regulatory Affairs and Sustainability Manager, Numatic International

o Brigitte Amoruso, Sr Energy Climate Change policy lead, Make UK (moderator)

– 13:50 Coffee Break

– 16:00 – Examples of high quality scientifically validated carbon credits

– 17:20 How to buy the best credits here and now: Permian Global Auction

– 17:30 – Event Close / Networking Drinks