With my personal hat on, Martin Chilcott (MC at one point in the day) gave me an opportunity to express my frustrations at the potential (if not actual) conflicts between the UK Governmental energy policy priorities of security of supply, minimisation of bills to customers and enhancement of the environment (aka "Natural Capital"). In my humble opinion, there is too much emphasis currently being placed (in the UK and many other countries) on economic growth, and not enough on green growth. I could have been even more controversial and gone on to talk about steady-state economics, where green growth in some sectors would be allowed but degrowth in other sectors would be required in order to keep the whole system in sustainable equilibrium, but I had limited time on the microphone so tried to 'quit while I was ahead'.
The best speaker of the day was Julia Groves from Trillion Fund - entertaining, witty, optimistic and inspirational. Like myself (with my former work in BP) she is, in some sense, 'poacher turned gamekeeper' because of her past life in British Airways. All I can say is that she's atoning for her past carbon-emission-sins in great style.
Here are a couple of pics from the event. The first features Robert Rabinowitz from Pure Leapfrog. The second (apologies for blurriness) is Julia Groves (Trillion Fund), Malcolm Ball (Green Investment Bank) and Bill Edrich (Bristol City Council).