Two weeks to Policies for the Planet 2024 🌍 here’s the final speaker line-up

With exactly two weeks to go until the Policies for the Planet conference, we wanted to update you on the final (and truly stellar) line-up of speakers, who’ll share valuable insights on the policies and projects that are leading the way to a better, more sustainable world.

A reminder of the details:

• 14 March 2024

• Starting time 10:00 GMT+2 (SAST)

• Online via Zoom

NB: Please ensure you’ve added the Zoom event to your calendar so you don’t miss it.

If you can’t join us for the full day, feel free to drop in and out and tune into the sessions most relevant to you.

Speaker line-up:

• Morning keynote: Nick Smith, former executive director of the South Australian department of energy and mining’s growth and low-carbon unit, and currently MD of Global Decarbonisation Advisory

• Afternoon keynote: Ramón Méndez Galain, Uruguay’s former national director of energy, and currently executive director of Ivy, an association that works to accelerate Latin America’s clean energy transition

• Petter Haugneland, assistant secretary general of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association

• Marcelo Mena-Carrasco, former environment minister of Chile, and currently CEO of The Global Methane Hub

• Sanna Markkanen, head of policy analysis at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

• Morten Kabell, Copenhagen’s former mayor for technical and environmental affairs

• Dr Racheal Adedokun, lecturer in management at Robert Gordon University

• Jon Kornik, CEO of Plentify

• Mandy Rambharos, vice president for global climate cooperation at the Environmental Defense Fund, and former head of Eskom’s just energy transition strategy

• Andrew Middleton, CEO of GoSolr

• Chris Bellingham, head of project development at JUWI Renewable Energies (South Africa)

• Andy O’Brien, co-director of the Bristol Energy Cooperative

• Panel moderator: Ramona Mohanlall, chief operating officer of RustMo1 Solar Farm (the first renewable energy independent power project to connect to South Africa’s grid, in 2013)

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A big thank you to the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s South African arm for collaborating with us on this, and to our sponsors: GoSolr, JUWI Renewable Energies (South Africa) and Plentify.

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See you on 14 March!

Nick Hedley

Editor of The Progress Playbook

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