Transition Finance: The Path From Carbon-Intensive to Carbon-Free

Name: Transition Finance: The Path From Carbon-Intensive to Carbon-Free
Start: 2023-02-15T13:30:00-08:00
End: 2023-02-15T14:30:00-08:00
Location: Breakout Tent 1

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

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Breakout Tent 1

Transition finance aims to address one of the major economic roadblocks to decarbonization by mobilizing the financing that heavy-emitting industries need. What's preventing private sector financiers from financing the transition? What solutions are now in the works? What are early successes?

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Session Speakers

Fernando

Reiter

Corporate Finance Director

CEMEX

Fernando

Reiter

Corporate Finance Director

CEMEX

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Fernando joined CEMEX in 2002 and has been leading CEMEX’s Corporate Financing team since 2019 where he is responsible for debt and equity financing, derivatives, financial risk management, rating agencies and banking relationships. Prior roles at CEMEX include Treasurer of US Operations and International Financing Manager. He is currently a member of CEMEX’s Global Pension Governance Committee and CEMEX’s Corporate Development Committee. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, and a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in Humanities from Universidad de Monterrey.

Sessions

Transition Finance: The Path From Carbon-Intensive to Carbon-Free

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Brad

Sparks

Executive Director

The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S)

Brad

Sparks

US Director

The Prince of Wales’s Accounting for Sustainability CFO Leadership Network

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Brad Sparks is Executive Director of A4S (Accounting for Sustainability), part of The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation. He leads the US Chapter of the A4S CFO Leadership Network, supporting Fortune 500 CFOs and their finance teams in embedding sustainability into strategy and business decision-making. He also leads A4S activities across the US, including working with asset managers, asset owners and the wider finance community. Brad previously served as an Executive Director with KPMG focused on ESG issues. Brad is a lecturer at UCLA Anderson and an Executive-in-Residence at Cornell University’s Center for Global Sustainable Enterprise.

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Transition Finance: The Path From Carbon-Intensive to Carbon-Free

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Courtney

Thompson

Executive Director, Global Sustainable Finance

Morgan Stanley

Courtney

Thompson

Executive Director, Global Sustainable Finance

Morgan Stanley

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Courtney Thompson is an Executive Director and Head of Products & Solutions in Morgan Stanley’s Global Sustainability Office, supporting the development of sustainable finance products and solutions across the firm’s Institutional Securities, Investment Management and Wealth Management divisions. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Courtney worked in strategic advisory at Next Street and economic consulting at Analysis Group. Courtney graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in Economics and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. She also serves as Board Co-Chair of Microlumbia, a student-led impact investing fund.

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Transition Finance: The Path From Carbon-Intensive to Carbon-Free

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Melissa

Gray

Supply Chain ESG & Corporate Services

Equinix

Melissa

Gray

Supply Chain ESG & Corporate Services

Equinix

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Melissa Gray is Equinix’s Director of Supply Chain ESG and Corporate Services where she passionately drives the equitable decarbonization of the supply chain. A two-time CSO, she has held several roles building and executing industry leading sustainability programs: for Google, Avnet, and Rackspace Hosting. As a renewable energy pioneer, she helped Rackspace become one of the first six internet companies to commit to 100% renewable energy, developed the responsible electronics disposal metric, EDE, and was a founding member of OpenStack, OpenCompute and OpenPOWER in collaboration with co-founders NASA, Facebook, Google, Goldman Sachs & IBM.

Gray started her career integrating $184B in acquisitions for rebranded global communications company, AT&T where she transformed their call center operations, earning three software patents.

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Transition Finance: The Path From Carbon-Intensive to Carbon-Free

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Mike

Ferguson

Americas Team Leader - Sustainable Finance

S&P Global

Mike

Ferguson

Americas Team Leader - Sustainable Finance

S&P Global

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Michael Ferguson is the Americas Analytical Manager for the Sustainable Finance group at S&P Global Ratings. He manages a team of 20 North American and LatAm Sustainable Finance Analysts. He has been involved in the development, roll-out, and updating of our ESG Evaluation, and is responsible for the inclusion of ESG risks into our credit ratings. He also supports our efforts on Sustainable Financing Opinions (SFOs). He is responsible for developing the learning curriculum on ESG throughout S&P Global Ratings. Much of his thought leadership research revolves around environmental regulation and energy policy, especially in the United States.Michael joined S&P Global Ratings in December 2011 and was in the North American Energy Infrastructure practice as a credit analyst for approximately seven years, covering project financings and power companies. Previously, he worked as a forensic accounting consultant with FTI Consulting in Washington, DC. He worked on a wide array of cases, ranging from stock option backdating and revenue recognition to embezzlement and ponzi schemes. Michael also worked in the Financial Services Assurance practice at Ernst & Young LLP; he audited hedge funds, insurers, and banks, as well as government agencies.Michael graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2005 with a bachelor of business administration degree in Finance and a bachelor of arts degree in Political Science. He also received an International Business Certificate. He received a master of science degree in Accountancy from the University of Virginia in 2006 and a master of business administration degree from Duke University in 2011. Michael is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a Certified Public Accountant, a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He is currently pursuing at Masters Degree in Sustainability at Harvard University.

Sessions

Transition Finance: The Path From Carbon-Intensive to Carbon-Free

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Tracks

Finance & ESG

Session Type

Breakout