Participants
ABN AMRO is an international bank with European roots. We have a clear focus on consumer and commercial clients in our local markets and focus globally on select multinational corporations and financial institutions, as well as private clients. Our business mix gives us a competitive edge in our chosen markets and client segments.
Acclimatise is the market leader in climate risk management consultancy and intelligence services.They help governments and businesses assess and manage the risks and opportunities of inevitable climate change.
Bank Sarasin’s core activities include investment advisory and asset management services for private and institutional clients, as well as an investment funds business. In addition to its headquarters in Basel , the Bank has offices in Zurich , Geneva and Lugano in Switzerland . Internationally, the Sarasin Group has offices in Dubai , Guernsey , Hong Kong , London , Luxembourg , Munich , Paris and Singapore. Bank Sarasin pioneered sustainable investment in 1989 and launched the world’s first investment fund based on the concept of eco-efficiency back in 1994. Today its sustainable investment team of 19 employees is one of Europe’s largest and most experienced.
Barclays is a UK-based financial services group, with a large international presence in Europe, the USA, Africa and Asia. It is engaged primarily in banking, investment banking and investment management. In terms of market capitalisation, Barclays is one of the largest financial services companies in the world. It has been operating for more than 300 years with 27 million customers and 122,600 employees in over 50 countries.
The Cambridge Centre for Energy Studies will examine some of the key issues affecting energy security worldwide including: developments in Russia; the growing trade in natural gas; the gradual emergence of alternative and renewable forms of energy supply; and the need for new international institutional frameworks to manage the stabilization of carbon emissions.
Canaccord Capital Inc (CCI) is a leading independent full service investment dealer in Canada with capital markets operations in the United Kingdom and the United States of America . Canaccord Capital is publicly traded on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange’s AIM. Canaccord has operations in private client services and capital markets. Together, these operations offer a wide range of complementary investment products, brokerage services and investment banking services to Canaccord's private, institutional and corporate clients. Canaccord has over 1,500 employees worldwide in 30 offices, including 23 Private Client Services offices located across Canada.
The Center on International Cooperation at New York University works to enhance international responses to humanitarian crises and global security threats through applied research and direct engagement with multilateral institutions and the wider policy community. It has an international reputation for agenda-setting work on post-conflict peacebuilding, global peace operations, and UN reform.
A leading European equity broker, Cheuvreux offers a full range of brokerage services - research, sales, execution - to an impressive international client base.
Credit Suisse is a world-leading financial services company, advising clients in private banking, investment banking and asset management.
Glitnir is a growing financial services group with strong foundations in its Nordic home markets, Iceland and Norway, offering universal banking and financial services. Services include retail, corporate and investment banking, stock trade/brokerage and capital management.
Herbert Smith is a leading and full-service international legal practice with a 1,200-lawyer network across Europe and Asia. They are acknowledged as being in the top tier in the areas of transactions, projects and disputes. Their international capability is enhanced by their alliance with Gleiss Lutz and Stibbe, the leading Western European law firms with whom they have worked on many major cross-border matters.
JPMorgan Chase & Co is a leading global financial services firm with operations in more than 50 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management, and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase has its corporate headquarters in New York and its US retail financial services and commercial banking headquarters in Chicago. Under its JPMorgan and Chase brands, the firm serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients.
Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies, with offices in 38 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately $1.7 trillion. As an investment bank, it is a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide.
Since its founding in 1935, Morgan Stanley and its people have helped redefine the meaning of financial services. The firm has continually broken new ground in advising our clients on strategic transactions, in pioneering the global expansion of finance and capital markets, and in providing new opportunities for individual and institutional investors.
Founded by the Herzl family
in 2007, NextEarth Foundation is dedicated to developing, advancing, and supporting innovative and systemic solutions to critical sustainability challenges. As a catalyst and a direct agent for change, the Foundation works with partners across sectors to design and implement its initiatives.
River Path is an organisational pathfinder. They work by challenging perceptions, building evidence for change, and mapping the future using a range of techniques, including strategic consulting, research, and the development of creative solutions. They work in the public, private and not for profit sectors, and in multiple professional fields – ranging from demography to communications technologies, and from international relations to retail.
The Santa Fe Institute is devoted to creating a new kind of scientific research community, one emphasizing multi-disciplinary collaboration in pursuit of understanding the common themes that arise in natural, artificial, and social systems.
SG CIB is one of the three core businesses of the Société Générale Group, alongside Retail Banking and Global Investment Management Services. It is the 3rd largest corporate and investment bank in the euro zone by net banking income, present in some 45 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, and it employs around 10,000 staff worldwide, with more than 50% of them based outside France. It is a reference bank in its three areas of focus in: euro capital markets; derivative products; and structured finance. SG CIB aims to be a leading European corporate and investment bank, offering excellence of service to its clients, strong profitability to the Group and its shareholders, and to be an employer of choice for its employees. Combining innovation, industry expertise and quality of execution, SG CIB offers value-added integrated financial solutions to corporates, financial institutions and investors.
Sustainable Forestry Management was established in 1999 to demonstrate that attractive returns can be generated by investment in the world’s tropical and subtropical forests. SFM is building a global portfolio of forest-based enterprises with the help of commercial, financial, not-for-profit and multilateral partners including leading participants in forestry, bio-prospecting and eco-tourism. SFM's principal revenues will be derived from supplying and trading carbon dioxide emission credits and offsets in the carbon market and from the harvest of environmentally certified timber. SFM's Board of Directors and Advisory Board include world leaders in business, financial markets, conservation, emerging market investment, science and human rights. SFM intends to be both a first mover in the carbon marketplace and to set the world standard for investment in tropical and subtropical forest areas.
WestLB AG is a European commercial bank with firm roots in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s largest federal state. It is one of Germany’s leading financial services providers. It is the central institution for the savings banks in North Rhine-Westphalia and Brandenburg, and as an internationally operating commercial bank it acts as their link to the global financial markets. Working in close partnership with the savings banks, WestLB offers the full range of products and services of a universal bank, focusing on lending, structured finance, capital market and private equity products, asset management, transaction services and real estate finance. WestLB employs over 5,000 staff.
Sponsors
 The City of London Corporation provides first class local government services for the Square Mile, the financial and commercial heart of Britain. The City Corporation is committed to maintaining and enhancing the status of the business City as the world’s leading international financial and business centre through its policies and services. Its responsibilities also extend far beyond the City boundaries and include management of the Barbican Centre, Central Criminal court at the Old Bailey, Epping Forest, Hampstead Heath, three wholesale food markets, as well as acting as the London Port Health Authority.
 BP is one of the world's largest energy companies, providing its customers with fuel for transportation, energy for heat and light, retail services and petrochemicals products for everyday items.
 The Climate Conservancy is an independent, non-profit group with no financial ties to the companies whose products we assess, and we do not profit from our product assessments or use of our logo. Our Climate Conscious Assessment has been peer-reviewed by top scientists, economists and engineers (Science Advisory Board). We scrutinize not just the manufacturing process, but the entire life-cycle of a product from the source of raw materials, transportation of products to stores and even the disposal of product packaging. All of this goes into our calculation and certification of just how Climate Conscious the product is.
 Forum for the Future is the UK’s leading sustainable development charity. They aim to show that a sustainable future is both possible and desirable by working with forward looking organisations in business and the public sector, to find practical ways to build a future that is environmentally viable, socially just and economically prosperous. Forum for the Future's financial markets programme works with others to find ways in which more capital can be allocated to sustainable activities, through innovative financial structures and instruments and through more effective valuation of social and environmental risks and opportunities.
Gresham College, founded by Sir Thomas Gresham in 1597, is an independently funded educational institution based in Barnard's Inn, Holborn.
 Z/Yen is the City of London's leading think-tank and research organisation. Z/Yen uses risk/reward management to implement strategy, finance, systems, marketing and intelligence projects for clients in financial services, technology, government, the voluntary sector and many other fields.
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