The WEF's Objectives:

• Convene expert practitioners in climate risk and energy transition by invitation.
   
• Share strategic information on the challenges and opportunities of decarbonisation policy, investment and innovation.
   
• Inform political and corporate decisions in support of Net Zero goals and ambitions.

Operationally, the WEF functions like a small think tank delivering two complementary workstreams, to a network of 150 organisations in the UK and overseas. Established in 2004, the two WEF workstreams now comprise eight or more high level events by invitation per year:

> Climate Risk & Resilience Assessments

> Energy System Transition Assessments

Agenda:

1 – Current Trends in, and the latest Economics of, the Energy Transition: Primary Risks & Uncertainties

Mike Bradshaw, Prof. of Global Energy WBS, & Co-Director, UK Energy Research Centre

Gautam Mukherjee, Head of Gas Analytics, BP

2 – Climate Risks: Trends in Capital Flows, Related Corporate Risks, and their Implications

Tara Schmidt, Sustainability & ESG Finance Director, Lloyds Banking Group 

Andrew Herring, CEO, Energy & Power, Marsh

3 – The Status of the European Energy Landscape and the Imperative of Political Coordination

Sophie Westlake, Deputy Director - International Energy Unit, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Andrea Amelio, First Counsellor – Competition & Energy, Delegation of the European Union to the UK

Mariko Higuchi, Deputy Head of Department for Economic & Global Affairs, Embassy of Germany

4 – UK Energy Strategy & Sector Transformation – Challenges facing Industrial Delivery 

Sam McKilligin, Director - Energy Transition, AECOM

Abhi Kohok, Subsurface Director, Ineos