Centre for Financial Accountability in partnership with Indo-German Centre for Sustainability, IIT-Madras and Climate Trends presents its 4th edition of Energy Finance Conference India.
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Day 1:
Keynote speaker: Ajay Shankar
Distinguished Fellow, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), and former Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Govt of India
Topic: Contours of India’s Net Zero Ambition
Ajit Pandit
Founder Director, Idam Infrastructure Advisory Pvt Ltd
Topic: Where are we on RE and Storage?
Ashwini Chitnis
Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment
Topic: What’s ailing the power distribution sector?
Shuboday Ganta
Vice-President – Power & Utilities, Ernst & Young
Topic: Trends in financial flows in energy sector, post the pandemic
Sathya Narahyana
DGM, Renewables Business, Larsen & Toubro
Topic: New Frontiers of Utility Scale Solar
Ashok Rao
Former President, All India Power Engineers Federation
Topic: Challenges faced by PSUs in Energy sector
Swathi Seshadri
Team Lead – Energy, CFA
Topic: Financiers of Oil & Gas sector in India
Vibhuti Garg
Director, South Asia – IEEFA
Topic: Global shift in investments from fossil fuels
Gaurav Dwivedi
Director – Research, CFA
Topic: Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds in Energy Sector
Soumya Dutta
Convener of South Asian People’s Action on Climate Crisis
Topic: Energy Market in India
Sagar Asapur
Sustainable Finance, Climate Risk Horizon
Topic: Financing and de-risking mechanisms for India’s energy sector
Day 2:
Kankana Das
Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment
Topic: Prospects of ESG from a governance perspective
Shantanu Srivastava
Energy Finance Analyst, IEEFA
Topic: ESG & India’s Ambitious RE targets
Priyadharshini
Sr. Program Associate, CFA
Topic: ESG in the context of mandatory Environmental and Social Safeguard Policies
Srinivasan Viswanathan
CEO – Vibrant Energy Holdings
Topic: Infrastructure for the next generation technologies in Energy sector
Dattatraya Nimbolkar
Chief internal auditor and company secretary, Praj Industries Ltd.
Topic: Financial Challenges in Bio-energy Sector
Sebastian Morris
Professor, Goa Institute of Management
Topic: Designing Electricity Markets for India -Key Considerations
Ramya MA
WRI transport
Topic: India’s pathway to a climate-resilient, low-carbon Transport sector
Ranjit Gadgil
Director – Programs, Parisar
Topic: Sustainable Transport – Looking beyond Electric Vehicles
Ravi Gadepalli
Consultant World Bank & The International Association of Public Transport – UITP
Topic: Financing Sustainable Public Transport
Utkarsh Patel
Associate Fellow (Climate Change and Energy Transition), CSEP
Topic: Financing Climate Change Adaptation in India
Rohit Azad
Assistant Professor of Economics, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU
Topic: The Indian Green Deal
Ashwini Swain
Centre for Policy Research
Topic: Domestic Energy Targets and their Implications for Net-Zero