Event Details
Key Audiences
If you work in any of the following companies, this event will be of interest to you:
- Investment Management Companies
- Investment Banks
- Private Equity Companies
- Venture Capital Companies
- Investment Consultancies
- Independent Financial Advisors
- Investment Research Firms
Date
11th November 2008
Agenda
18:30 Drinks and canapé reception
19:10 Welcome remarks by Nigel Winser (Executive Vice President, Earthwatch) Penny Shepherd MBE (Chief Executive UKSIF)
19:20 Professor Stuart Haszeldine: Carbon Capture and Storage - How investment in CCS technologies could play a crucial role in enabling the UK to meet its carbon emissions targets.
19:35 Panel debate
19:50 Annelisa Grigg: Ecosystem Services - How a market might be developed for ecosystem services - those services that natural systems provide to society, such as water filtration, insect pollination and flood control.
20:05 Panel debate
20:20 Professor Vivian Moses: Genetically Modified Organisms - How GMOs might mitigate food scarcity, make agricultural practices less input intensive and relieve pressure on land conversion for farming.
20:35 Panel debate
20:45 Sum up: the risks and rewards of each investment opportunity
20:55 Final audience vote
21:00 Closing remarks