Sustainability & Impact Summit: Where Capital Drives Change
Thursday 11th June, 1.00pm - 5.30pmWe are delighted to invite you to the Sustainability & Impact Summit: Where Capital Drives Change, taking place on Thursday 11 June.
This summit will bring 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
We are especially pleased to welcome Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever, as our keynote speaker. Paul led Unilever for ten years from 2009-2019 and pioneered the company’s sustainability strategy, the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, which became one of the most cited corporate sustainability strategies of the last decade given its ambitious goals. These included to help more than a billion people improve their health and well-being by 2020, to halve the environmental footprint of their products across the value chain by 2030, and to enhance the livelihoods of millions of people by 2020 through its value chain (e.g. small-scale distributors and farmers).
The summit will be held in person at 1 London Wall Place, with a virtual attendance option available.
Agenda:
1.00pm: Introduction and Welcome
1.10pm: Driving the Transition
2.10pm: People and place-based investing
3.10pm: Break
3.40pm: Nature as our biggest asset
4.40pm: Keynote Speaker: Paul Polman
5.30pm: Close
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.
Speakers