Agenda
*Agenda is subject to change
Time (EST) | Session |
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8:00 - 9:00 | Registration and welcome refreshments |
9:00 - 9:20 | Welcome and Opening Remarks from the Organizing Committee |
9:20 - 9:40 | Welcome from Credit Suisse Emma Crystal, Chief Sustainability Officer, Credit Suisse |
9:40 - 10:10 | Fireside Chat: Role of public and private capital to facilitate natural climate solutions Frederick Teo, CEO, GenZero Host: Imene Moussa, Director, Global Sustainability, Credit Suisse |
10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee Break |
10:40 - 11:30 | Panel: Debate: Carbon markets & carbon reality: how to scale nature-based solutions while maintaining market integrity Jeffrey Briggs, Managing Director, North America, New Forests Gabe Sheets-Poling, Sr. Vice President, Ripple Labs Moderator: Sara Kuebbing, Director of Research, Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program, The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment |
11:30 - 12:15 | Panel: The Conservation Forestry Sector: The Growing Importance of Institutional Private Investment David Brand, Founder and Executive Chair, New Forests Joan Larrea, CEO, Convergence Blended Finance Rene Zamora Cristales, Senior Manager, Restoration Policy at the World Resources Institute Moderator: Peter R. Stein, Managing Director, The Lyme Timber Company |
12:15 - 13:35 | Lunch |
12:20 - 12:40 | Lunch presentation - Feeding the Future through Investments in Climate-Smart Regenerative Food Systems Britt Groosman, Vice-President Climate-Smart Agriculture, Environmental Defense Fund Dana Gunders, Executive Director, ReFed |
13:35 - 14:20 | Panel: Scaling Institutional Investment in Environmental Infrastructure? Bryan Garcia, President and CEO, Connecticut Green Bank Todd Gartner, Director, Cities4Forests & Natural Infrastructure Initiative, World Resources Institute Eric Hallstein, Managing Director, Macquarie Linda Krueger, Director, Biodiversity and Infrastructure Policy, TNC Moderator: Ana Olaya, Managing Director of CK BlueShift |
14:20 - 14:50 | Coffee Break |
14:50 - 15:40 | Panel: Biodiversity Credits: Will this new market recapitulate the carbon market’s ontogeny? Steven Liberatore, Senior Managing Director/Head of ESG/Impact – Global Fixed Income, Nuveen Ingo Puhl, Co-Founder, South Pole Laura Waterford, Director, Pollination Moderator: Timothy Male, Executive Director, Environmental Policy Innovation Center |
15:40 - 16:00 | Deans' dialogue: Research, policy, and the deals: The growth of the biodiversity conservation markets Ingrid C. "Indy" Burke, Ph.D., Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean, Yale School of the Environment (YSE) Andrew Karolyi, Charles Field Knight Dean, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Moderator: Matthew McKenna, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business |
16:00 - 16:30 | Keynote: Scaling Finance for Nature Lauren Ferstandig, Managing Director, NatureVest Host: David Chen, CEO, Equilibrium Capital |
16:30 - 16:45 | Closing Remarks David Chen, CEO, Equilibrium Capital |
16:45 - 18:30 | Networking Drinks Reception |