Speakers highlighted the growing importance of ESG strategy within CVC investments and how CVCs can help their respective parent firms’ green goals, particularly after COP26.

Corporations need to allocate more funding to startups and take a long-term view despite shaky markets, says VC partner Saul Klein.

Nato’s Phillip Lockwood and In-Q-Tel’s Nat Puffer speak to governments’ growing appetite for deep tech investments in the security sector.

Investors from ABB, BP, ArcelorMittal, Baker Hughes and Engie on how their strategy of building renewables portfolios is evolving.

BP Ventures’ Erin Hallock explored the difficulties in getting a syndicate together for transformative technologies where financial returns could be far away.

Corporate venture capitalists can do more to help sustainability initiatives, Btomorrow Ventures managing director Lisa Smith said in her keynote speech.

Eco-shaper’s Tracey Carr, Brill Power’s Christoph Birkl and Henkel Tech Ventures’ Paolo Bavaj shared their insights into sustainable investing.

OSI portfolio company First Light Fusion’s co-founder and CEO, Nicholas Hawker, explained how his company’s nuclear fusion technology could contribute to net-zero targets.

GCV’s James Mawson interviewed Energy Transitions Commission chair Lord Adair Turner on the hydrogen space.

Brown Rudick’s Neil Foster moderated a discussion between National Grid Partners’ Ian Cooper, Baker Hughes’ Luca Maria Rossi and ZeroAvia’s Katya Akulinicheva on the fuels of the future.

Lord Gerry Grimstone, UK minister for investment, gave a keynote on the development of a fertile environment for the growth of decarbonisation technologies.

Sir Ronald Cohen, chair of the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group, gave a keynote on impact investing and what he described as the impact revolution.

Mach49’s Paul Holland spoke with BlackRock Alternatives Investors’ Jim Barry on the latter’s firm’s climatetech strategy.

Representatives from University of Strathclyde, Conception X, SETsquared and Oxford University Innovation discussed how university ventures can spearhead sustainable innovation and deliver impact.