Sustainability & Impact Summit: Where Capital Drives Change
This summit brought together leaders from finance, business, and policy to explore how capital can accelerate a greener and fairer future. The programme will explore three key themes:
Driving the climate transition
People and place-based investing
Nature as our biggest asset
The Sustainability Salon
29acacia transforms agricultural waste into high-performance, low-impact textiles for the future of fashion. Its next-generation fabrics offer a scalable alternative to cotton and viscose, using banana waste to create soft, breathable materials with a transparent, plastic-free supply chain.
Resting Reef transforms cremated ashes into beautiful memorial reefs that help restore marine life. Its award-winning memorial service creates lasting tributes for people and pets, turning remembrance into a living foundation for ocean regeneration.
Journeys With Purpose is an award-winning travel designer creating rare, purposeful experiences in wild nature. Its private, hosted and learning journeys connect travellers with conservation leaders, local changemakers and pioneering projects across the world.
Farm Urban is a Liverpool-based vertical farming organisation growing a healthier future for people and planet. It produces sustainable leafy greens for communities facing food poverty, while delivering education, research and consultancy to support healthier, fairer urban food systems.
Fauna & Flora is an international conservation charity working with local partners in more than 40 countries to protect nature for people and planet. Through practical, on-the-ground conservation, it helps safeguard threatened species, vital habitats and the ecosystems we all depend on.
Ada Ventures is an inclusive pre-seed venture capital firm backing ambitious European founders building businesses for a better human future. It invests early, with impact assessed in every investment decision, and focuses on areas including climate equity, economic empowerment and healthy ageing.
Watch the recordings of the seven sessions below
Introduction and Welcome
Oliver Gregson, CEO, Wealth Management
Driving the climate transition part 1
Hayley Fowler, Professor of Climate Change Impacts
Catherine Hampton, Head of Sustainable Investment, Cazenove Capital
Mintal Patel, CEO, Schroders Greencoat
Kimberly Lewis, Head of Active Ownership, Schroders
Dr James Richardson, Director of Analysis and Chief Economics, Climate Change Committee
Driving the climate transition part 2
Dan Prawda, Founding Partner, GEF
Oliver Gregson, CEO, Wealth Management
Nature as our biggest asset
Robert Gardener, CEO & CO-Founder, Rebalance Earth
Stephanie Williams, Research strategy, Schroders
David Craig, Co-Chair of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
Emma Toovey, Chief Nature Officer, Environment Bank
Julie Dimitrijevic, Biologist, Fauna & Flora
Sir Charles Burrell, Founder of Knepp Wildland
People and place-based investing
Emilie Shaw, Head of Sustainable Solutions, Cazenove Capital
Maria Teresa Zappia, Deputy CEO, BlueOrchard
Eric Collins, CEO, ImpactX
Jeremy Rogers, CIO, Better Society Capital