Green Monday: March 2011

The International Policy Framework: The evolving policy framework - the drivers, corporate strategies and leadership

Arrive: 6:00pm / Start 6:30pm / Networking: 8:15pm / Close: 9:00pm

7th March 2011

Bank of America Merrill Lynch: King Edward Hall
2 King Edward Street City of London London EC1A 1HQ

Lord Anthony Giddens
Professor London School of Economics

Bernice Lee OBE
Research Director for Energy, Environment and Resource Governance Chatham House

Russel Mills
Global Director of Energy & Climate Change Policy Dow Chemicals

Mark Schofield
Global Leader, Sustainability & Climate Change, Tax Partner PricewaterhouseCoopers

Event overview:

The International Policy Framework: The evolving policy framework - the drivers, corporate strategies and leadership

If Lord Stern is right to describe climate change as the “greatest market failure the world has seen”, then policy is the natural solution to the problem. Consumers, investors, employees are all influencing the strategic agenda, but in the December 2010 Green Monday survey 66% of you said policy has a high impact on your strategy, marginally ahead of consumer pressure.

The last few years has seen a high degree of policy innovation, from emissions trading schemes, to Feed-in-Tariffs to state-funded banks, with varying success and different costs and impacts on the corporate community. Whilst great uncertainty remains, especially around the emergence of a global trading scheme, the direction of travel is becoming clearer and corporate strategies easier to draw up.