BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN URL:https://lectures.london/london-school-of-economics/net-zero-strategies -from-commitments-to-accountability-in-the-real-economy/calender.ics NAME:Lectures London X-WR-CALNAME:Lectures London TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0a2ed8b4-37aa-4e33-8ac6-2666c533de04 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260619T213124 DTSTART:20260623T173000 DTEND:20260623T190000 SUMMARY:Net zero strategies: from commitments to accountability in the rea l economy LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (Ma laysia Auditorium\, Centre Building) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 23 June 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakersVanessa Havard-Willia ms OBEKate McGrathPeter MetcalfeSeyed Alireza ModirzadehChairProfessor Car men NuzzoAs the urgency of climate action intensifies\, moving from target setting to transition planning has become a defining challenge for compan ies\, investors\, policymakers and regulators. Companies across high-emitt ing sectors have published net zero commitments and decarbonisation strate gies\; yet the critical question is whether climate targets will be transl ated into concrete decarbonisation levers\, low-carbon business models and \, ultimately\, real-world action.Are corporate transition plans credible? How can industries\, policymakers\, investors\, and academia distinguish genuine decarbonisation strategies from commitments that lack substance? A nd what role can rigorous\, independent assessment play in holding compani es accountable and driving meaningful climate action?This event will revie w the state of corporate transition plans in the oil & gas and diversified mining sectors\, what credible sectoral transition plans look like and wh y they matter from policy\, investor and industry perspectives.Meet our sp eakers and chairVanessa Havard-Williams OBE is a member of the Transition Finance Council steering group and chaired the UK Transition Finance Marke t Review published in 2024. She worked on the TPT Delivery Group and co-ch aired the oil and gas sector work stream. She is the senior independent di rector at UK Export Finance and a vice-chair of the Green Finance Institut e Transition Finance Lab. Prior to this she was a partner at Linklaters an d led their sustainability practice until 2023.Kate McGrath is Head of ESG \, Fixed Income at Aberdeen. She has been part of the Fixed Income ESG te am since 2020\, responsible for ESG oversight across sustainability-focuse d strategies including the Sustainable range\, ethical mandates\, and clim ate transition themes. She leads ESG strategy\, client engagement and inve stment frameworks within Fixed Income\, sitting on the Global Fixed Income Senior Leadership Team. In 2024\, she was awarded Investment Week's Women in Investment Rising Star Award.Peter Metcalfe is an Executive Committee Member\, Ipieca and Vice President for Climate\, Sustainability and Energ y Policy at Woodside Energy. He is an experienced executive in climate\, s ustainability and external affairs\, having held leadership roles at Woods ide since 2017. He represents Woodside on the executive committee of Ipiec a\, the oil & gas industry's global association for environmental and soci al issues. He previously served as Director of External Affairs at BP.Alir eza Modirzadeh (Modir) is Project Lead at the TPI Global Climate Transiti on Centre (TPI Centre) at LSE. Modir is responsible for the Net Zero Strat egies (NZS) project\, carrying out research and analysis on assessment fra meworks for sectoral transition plans and contributing to Carbon Performan ce assessments and sectoral methodology development. Modir has a MSc in En vironmental Management and a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Tehran.Carmen Nuzzo is Professor in Practice and Executive Director of the TPI Centre\, which she joined in 2023. She leads the Centre's strateg y\, research\, and operations. A macroeconomist with 20+ years in financia l industry research\, her career spans Salomon Brothers\, Citigroup\, Morg an Stanley\, and the UN-supported PRI\, where she headed Fixed Income and led ESG integration across sovereign and private debt. She holds a Ph.D. i n Capital Markets from the University of Bergamo\, Italy\, as part of whic h she was a visiting scholar at the NYU Stern School of Business.More abou t this eventThe event will start with a presentation of the NZS framework and the latest NZS assessment results. It will be followed by a moderated panel discussion with investor\, industry and policy representatives\, bef ore opening the floor to a Q&A session from the in-person and online audie nce. If you can't attend live\, a video will be made available shortly aft erwards on the TPI Centre's YouTube channel.Established in June 2022\, the TPI Global Climate Transition Centre (TPI Centre) is an academic research centre at LSE dedicated to producing independent and forward-looking rese arch and data on the progress of corporate and sovereign entities in the t ransition to a low-carbon economy. Its assessments use publicly disclosed information and its research outputs and datasets are publicly accessible. 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