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Climate transition financing: identifying investment opportunities

ICE and Deutsche Bank delved into the complexities of analyzing corporate level climate transition plans, evaluating the linkage to decarbonization targets. Our expert panel provided insights into the current state of companies' transition plans, discuss the role of existing taxonomies, and highlight examples of best-in-class transition plans.

Topics that were discussed include:

Challenges of analyzing climate transition plans - how are companies’ transition plans currently implemented
Identifying costs of financing transition plans - linking actions to targets
Discussion of effective transition plans - identifying investment opportunities
Innovative solutions that can help with modelling and assessment of capital expenditure requirements for companies to achieve their decarbonization ambitions

Speakers

Monika Sabolova

Product Owner, Sustainable Finance, ICE

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Monika is a Product Owner overseeing the development and implementation of ICE Sustainable Bonds solutions. Previously, she worked as a Product Engagement Manager, responsible for managing client relationships and providing technical and content expertise on Climate Transition Finance products and services.

Before joining ICE, Monika was a Fixed Income Responsible Investing Product Manager at Alliance Bernstein, where she supported clients and internal business partners with reporting, product content, competitive analysis, and education.

Girish Narula

Head of Sustainable Finance, EMEA & APAC, ICE

Speaker

Girish came to ICE through its recent acquisition of Urgentem, a start up in climate analytics, where he was the CEO. Girish has a keen interest in building solutions and products that enable the financial services industry to manage the transition to a low carbon economy and maximize opportunities presented by decarbonisation to net zero future.

He has a track record of driving success and innovation in risk analytics, portfolio management and strategic business planning across different geographies including India, US, UK and Africa. His outlook is entrepreneurial, and technology driven with a B.Tech. in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Executive training in Artificial Intelligence from MIT Sloan and an MBA from the University of Oxford.

Kalpana Seethepalli

Director of Sustainable Finance, APAC, Middle East, and Africa Deutsche Bank

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Dr. Kalpana Seethepalli is the Director of Sustainable Finance for Asia Pacific (APAC), Middle East and Africa (MEA). She is a global expert on transition and sustainable finance, and leads the work on results frameworks, measurement and monitoring for SF transactions aligned with sustainable finance taxonomies. She brings 25 years of sustainable development and finance experience across 15 countries over a long career with The World Bank Group, private equity markets and banking, and aims to achieve positive impact through commercially viable investments. She has strengthened dialogue with NGOs and global civil society on sustainability issues on live investments. A recognized thought leader, she is a frequent speaker at global fora convening private investors, advisors and thought leaders, including the World Economic Forum, International Summits on climate finance, carbon markets and blended finance.

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