Board directors play a vital role in ensuring their companies are making robust strategic decisions around engaging with carbon markets in a high-integrity manner. Join Chapter Zero, the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) and the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) on Wednesday 28 May for a webinar designed to equip boards with the level of understanding needed to provide this crucial guidance.
This online event will explore the role that carbon market mechanisms and decarbonisation approaches can have in corporate climate transition planning and residual emissions reductions. We will be joined by expert speakers with a range of experience in the carbon space to share their knowledge and answer your questions on this complex topic.
Our confirmed speakers currently include:
- Doris Honold, Board Director at ICVCM with 25 years of board-level experience in finance, risk and change management, who will share ICVCM’s core carbon principles and how ICVCM is working to ensure high quality and integrity in this space.
- Mark Kenber, Executive Director at VCMI, who will delve into the role carbon credits can play in addressing unabated emissions alongside direct emissions reduction strategies, and how carbon credits fit within the current compliance requirements and policy.
Further guest speakers will be announced soon.
Doris Honold
Board Member, ICVCMDoris Honold is a Board member at ICVCM, Vice Chair at SEFE Energy and Non-Executive Director at Encompass Corporation and Aion Bank. Doris also has more than 25 years’ senior leadership experience in international financial markets, including roles as Group Chief Operating Officer and Head of Market Risk at Standard Chartered Bank.
Mark Kenber
Executive Director, VCMIMark Kenber is Executive Director of VCMI and has worked for nearly three decades on market-based instruments for environmental protection, with a particular focus on carbon markets. His previous roles include positions at Fundación Natura in Ecuador, WWF’s International Climate Change Program, The Climate Group, Mongoose Energy Ltd, and Climate Advisers. He has also served as Climate Change Advisor to the Ecuadorian Government, and is currently a board member of ICVCM, C:C Brighton and Brighton and Hove Energy Services Cooperative.
Guy Turner
Managing Director of Carbon Markets, MSCIGuy Turner is the Managing Director of Carbon Markets at MSCI, where he is responsible for overseeing the provision of investor-grade data and analytical tools designed to bring greater transparency and integrity to the global carbon credit market. With over 30 years of experience in climate policy, sustainability, and the energy transition, he is regarded as a leading authority on carbon markets.
Related Events
Geopolitics, Resilience and Strategic Courage: How Boards Can Lead Through Uncertainty
In collaboration with McKinsey & Company, this in-person seminar will explore how boards can turn uncertainty into long-term advantage by embedding geopolitical foresight, scenario planning, and high-performance execution models to accelerate innovation, improve efficiency, and deliver growth and competitive advantage.
What does the future hold? A conversation on governance, sustainability and AI
As a pilot in our new series ‘What does the future hold? Boards and the future of climate action’, we bring together Vicky Moffatt, Chapter Zero CEO, and Emily Chien, Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School, with our members, for a thought-provoking dialogue at the intersection of AI governance and climate action.
Scenario Analysis & Planning in Financial Firms: Strengthening Board Oversight and Governance
This online session, delivered in partnership between the Climate Governance Initiative (CGI) and Chapter Zero, is designed for financial services Non-Executive Directors. Combining expert insights with interactive discussions, it will equip NEDs of financial services firms, particularly from banks, asset managers and asset owners, to scrutinise scenario models, challenge assumptions, and understand how scenario models inform transition planning and influence financing and risk management decisions.
