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Investor Day 2024 — Water under pressure

Greenbank’s 27th annual Investor Day ‘Water under pressure’ focused on risks and opportunities in a water scarce future.

28 February 2024

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Article last updated 5 June 2024.

Our Investor Day 2024 focused on the social, environmental and economic risks posed by water scarcity, and the potential for companies and investors to offer solutions to these challenges. We discussed how technology and innovation can help, how companies are responding by managing their own freshwater impacts, and how investors can engage with companies on water use and management.

Speakers:

Kate Elliot, Head of ESI Research, Greenbank
Kai Johns, Senior ESI Researcher, Greenbank
Claire Elsdon, Director of Capital Markets, CDP
Jason Shingleton, Group Materials Science and Innovation Director, Genuit
Martin Gisbourne, Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, Genuit
Professor Nick Voulvoulis, Professor of Environmental Technology and Deputy Director of the Centre of Environmental Policy, Imperial College London

Click here to watch the presentations.

Speakers

Kate Elliot

Greenbank

Head of Ethical, Sustainable and Impact Research

Kate Elliot

Head of Ethical, Sustainable and Impact Research

Greenbank

Kate oversees the development and implementation of the team’s sustainability assessment framework, analysing investments against a range of environmental, social and governance criteria.  She also monitors emerging sustainability themes, sets priorities for Greenbank’s stewardship and engagement activities and has developed the team’s systems for measurement and reporting of portfolio sustainability and impact performance.  She joined Greenbank in 2007 after graduating from the University of Bristol with a Masters in Philosophy and Mathematics. 

Kate oversees the development and implementation of the team’s sustainability assessment framework, analysing investments against a range of environmental, social and governance criteria.  She also monitors emerging sustainability themes, sets priorities for Greenbank’s stewardship and engagement activities and has developed the team’s systems for measurement and reporting of portfolio sustainability and impact performance.  She joined Greenbank in 2007 after graduating from the University of Bristol with a Masters in Philosophy and Mathematics. 

Kai Johns

Greenbank

Senior Ethical, Sustainable and Impact Researcher

Kai Johns

Senior Ethical, Sustainable and Impact Researcher

Greenbank

Kai conducts analysis of investments against a range of environmental, social and governance criteria for both new ideas and companies in Greenbank’s investment universe. Kai’s focus is on climate impact and risk assessment across the investment portfolios Greenbank manages and his areas of interest include climate solutions, net zero and smart cities. Kai joined the ethical, sustainable and impact research team in March 2019 after graduating from the University of Cambridge with a BA in Law and he is a CFA Charterholder. 
 

Kai conducts analysis of investments against a range of environmental, social and governance criteria for both new ideas and companies in Greenbank’s investment universe. Kai’s focus is on climate impact and risk assessment across the investment portfolios Greenbank manages and his areas of interest include climate solutions, net zero and smart cities. Kai joined the ethical, sustainable and impact research team in March 2019 after graduating from the University of Cambridge with a BA in Law and he is a CFA Charterholder. 
 

Claire Elsdon

CDP

Director of Capital Markets

Claire Elsdon

Director of Capital Markets

CDP

Claire Elsdon leads the Capital Markets team at CDP, the non-profit that runs the world’s environmental disclosure system. She defines engagement strategy with financial institutions and other capital markets actors including institutional investors, banks, insurers and private equity and debt houses on a global basis, enabling them to request, utilise and apply critical climate, water and forest impact data from the companies they finance.  Claire led CDP's role in delivering disclosure solutions for the Bank of England's CBES exercise and has spearheaded CDP's highly innovative sustainable supplier financing solution, most recently culminating in the Vodafone/Citi collaboration. Claire is also passionate about the need for TCFD aligned disclosure amongst SMEs and is championing the first SME disclosure exercise for banks and anchor buyers this year.

Prior to CDP, Claire worked for over a decade broking Pan-European Equities to UK based Institutional Investors at HSBC, Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan before moving to Tanzania to establish Africa's leading social enterprise focussing on community motorcycle safety solutions. 
 

Claire Elsdon leads the Capital Markets team at CDP, the non-profit that runs the world’s environmental disclosure system. She defines engagement strategy with financial institutions and other capital markets actors including institutional investors, banks, insurers and private equity and debt houses on a global basis, enabling them to request, utilise and apply critical climate, water and forest impact data from the companies they finance.  Claire led CDP's role in delivering disclosure solutions for the Bank of England's CBES exercise and has spearheaded CDP's highly innovative sustainable supplier financing solution, most recently culminating in the Vodafone/Citi collaboration. Claire is also passionate about the need for TCFD aligned disclosure amongst SMEs and is championing the first SME disclosure exercise for banks and anchor buyers this year.

Prior to CDP, Claire worked for over a decade broking Pan-European Equities to UK based Institutional Investors at HSBC, Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan before moving to Tanzania to establish Africa's leading social enterprise focussing on community motorcycle safety solutions. 
 

Jason Shingleton

Genuit

Group Materials Science and Innovation Director

Jason Shingleton

Group Materials Science and Innovation Director

Genuit

Jason Shingleton is Director of R&D and Material Science at Genuit Group. He holds a degree in chemistry and PhD in polymer chemistry from Loughborough University and has over 26 years’ experience of product and materials innovation. Jason has spent most of his career developing products which either address the consequences of climate change or some of its causes, focusing on how Genuit can make the built environment more resilient and more circular. During his 15 year tenure as Marketing and Development Director in Genuit’s Civils and Green Urbanisation business, he led a team of engineers in innovating sustainable stormwater management solutions to tackle the challenge of increasingly excessive surface water run off caused by changing weather patterns and urbanisation.

Jason Shingleton is Director of R&D and Material Science at Genuit Group. He holds a degree in chemistry and PhD in polymer chemistry from Loughborough University and has over 26 years’ experience of product and materials innovation. Jason has spent most of his career developing products which either address the consequences of climate change or some of its causes, focusing on how Genuit can make the built environment more resilient and more circular. During his 15 year tenure as Marketing and Development Director in Genuit’s Civils and Green Urbanisation business, he led a team of engineers in innovating sustainable stormwater management solutions to tackle the challenge of increasingly excessive surface water run off caused by changing weather patterns and urbanisation.

Martin Gisbourne

Genuit

Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer

Martin Gisbourne

Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer

Genuit

Martin joined the Group in September 2019 as Group Strategy & Marketing Director. After a functional background in a variety of commercial and marketing roles with brands such as Bosch and Geberit, Martin has over twenty years’ experience of leading businesses in the construction products sector, most recently as part of the Belgian Aliaxis group where he was responsible for businesses in the UK, Middle East, South Africa and Nordic markets. Martin was appointed as Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer in April 2023. He has a BSc in Financial Management from Loughborough University.

Martin joined the Group in September 2019 as Group Strategy & Marketing Director. After a functional background in a variety of commercial and marketing roles with brands such as Bosch and Geberit, Martin has over twenty years’ experience of leading businesses in the construction products sector, most recently as part of the Belgian Aliaxis group where he was responsible for businesses in the UK, Middle East, South Africa and Nordic markets. Martin was appointed as Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer in April 2023. He has a BSc in Financial Management from Loughborough University.

Professor Nick Voulvoulis

Imperial College London

Professor of Environmental Technology and Deputy Director of the Centre of Environmental Policy

Professor Nick Voulvoulis

Professor of Environmental Technology and Deputy Director of the Centre of Environmental Policy

Imperial College London

Professor Nick Voulvoulis is a Professor of Environmental Technology and Deputy Director of the Centre of Environmental Policy at Imperial College London. He is an international expert in environmental management and sustainability, especially where science and engineering interface with public policy. Trained as an environmental scientist, his research focuses on the interactions and interdependencies between human and natural systems, through several projects funded by research councils, international bodies and commercial and charitable organisations. Current research activities are exploring the potential of system approaches for reaching Net Zero, and tools and policies for the sustainability transformation of urban water systems. He is the principal investigator of the NERC funded project Defining the AMR Burden of Antimicrobial Manufacturing Waste, as well as leading a research programme funded by the UN FAO on Global Resources Fragility and Vulnerability to Droughts. He also co-leads Imperial’s contribution to the Global Hydrogen Production Technologies Centre funded by the US NSF and UKRI. In the UK, ongoing work on the risks associated with combined sewer overflows has attracted some public interest, helping the water industry demonstrate the need for capital investment in infrastructure that is often taken for granted but is critical to our future prosperity.

Professor Nick Voulvoulis is a Professor of Environmental Technology and Deputy Director of the Centre of Environmental Policy at Imperial College London. He is an international expert in environmental management and sustainability, especially where science and engineering interface with public policy. Trained as an environmental scientist, his research focuses on the interactions and interdependencies between human and natural systems, through several projects funded by research councils, international bodies and commercial and charitable organisations. Current research activities are exploring the potential of system approaches for reaching Net Zero, and tools and policies for the sustainability transformation of urban water systems. He is the principal investigator of the NERC funded project Defining the AMR Burden of Antimicrobial Manufacturing Waste, as well as leading a research programme funded by the UN FAO on Global Resources Fragility and Vulnerability to Droughts. He also co-leads Imperial’s contribution to the Global Hydrogen Production Technologies Centre funded by the US NSF and UKRI. In the UK, ongoing work on the risks associated with combined sewer overflows has attracted some public interest, helping the water industry demonstrate the need for capital investment in infrastructure that is often taken for granted but is critical to our future prosperity.

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