ISL Environmental Economics Panel Discussion

Register now to join us on Monday 30 March 2026 from 17:30 to 19:00 for a dynamic Environmental Economics Forum featuring an exceptional panel of international experts working at the forefront of climate, finance, and environmental policy.

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Organised by the Natural sciences Department and the ISL Impact Hub

The panel brings together leaders from global institutions, investment firms, scientific organisations, and sustainability consultancies.

The discussion will explore pressing questions at the intersection of environment and economics.
The forum will highlight real-world applications of Environmental systems and societies and Economics classroom concepts such as market failure, externalities, circular economy, regulation, and sustainable development.

You will also have the opportunity to pose your questions during a dedicated Q&A session.

This promises to be a lively and thought-provoking debate between experts who approach environmental challenges from different professional perspectives—finance, science, policy, business, and civil society—offering participants a rare opportunity to witness systems thinking in action.

Can carbon pricing drive real change?

What role should governments play in markets?

How do subsidies, trade policies, and environmental monitoring shape global outcomes?

Is green growth realistic?

How do we distinguish genuine corporate sustainability from greenwashing?

Our Guest Speakers

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Shivin Kohli

Financing for Nature and Climate at the World Economic Forum

Karen E. Wilson

Kevin McGeeney

CEO at SCB Group

Dr Arthur Lyon Dahl

President of the International Environment Forum

Paul Edmunds

CEO at Aquascope

Anne-Cécile Turner

bloomUp sustainability agency co-Founder | Chalet Aïkoa ecolodge co-founder | President of Sustainable Marine Alliance and Sustainable Mountain Alliance

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Shivin Kohli is Lead, Financing for Nature at the World Economic Forum's Centre for Nature and Climate. In this role, he coordinates finance related activities across the centre, and also leads the Forum's programme on natural capital. Prior to this, he co-led global sustainability research and engagements for the economics consulting firm AlphaBeta in Singapore. He has worked extensively with international organisations, governments, industry associations, private sector firms, investors, philanthropies, and non-profits, including the WEF, Singapore government, Temasek, the ADB, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Food Industry Asia, Google and Netflix. Mr. Kohli is an experienced economist and has co-authored a number of agenda-setting reports on business and biodiversity, including the Future of Nature and Business and Finance Solutions for Nature. He previously worked in banking, digital media, and news.

Karen works with companies and investors on sustainability and impact strategies. She bridges the private, public and academic sectors, focusing on finance. She serves on the Pictet Group’s Impact & Sustainability Advisory Board, Columbia Threadneedle’s UK Social Bond Fund Social Advisory Group, and the World YMCA’s Impact Investing Advisory Group, among other board & advisory roles. Since 2022, she has been a Global Impact Leader at the Sorenson Impact Institute.

Since 2007, SCB has been developing markets for environmental products from waste cooking oils, to battery materials to the virtual assets of carbon credits. Prior to the establishment of SCB Group, he spent 15 years as an investment banker in London, New York and Tokyo.

Dr Lyon Dahl is also President of the International Environment Forum, and a retired Deputy Assistant Executive Director of UNEP, where he was Deputy Director of Oceans and Coastal Areas in Nairobi, and Coordinator of the UN System-wide Earthwatch in Geneva. In the secretariat of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, he was responsible for the final drafting of Chapter 17 of Agenda 21. An environmental systems scientist specialising on coral reefs, he spent many years in the South Pacific organising the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).

Paul is a passionate and resilient entrepreneur, earth scientist, and geospatial data professional with over 20 years of experience.
Second time founder, I specialise in building teams who apply data science, digital mapping, and remote sensing to support projects at the intersection of energy, agriculture, nature and water. With extensive experience on projects from local to global scales, I have built hands-on field expertise, executed multiple projects from the desktop and made strategic decisions in the boardroom. I bring an interdisciplinary systems based approach, combining technical, business, and leadership skills to help governments and industries leverage earth observation and data science solutions for climate resilience and adaptation from source to sea.

Anne-Cécile is the co-founder of bloomUp a global sustainability consultancy, driving positive change through sustainability, innovation, and the promotion of active lifestyles. She is an award-winning sustainability expert. Experienced in driving positive change through international platforms, her work is supported by her impressive qualifications and training from The Tavistock Institute, Harvard’s Executive Leadership Program and WWF. With more than twenty years of experience on a global scale in marketing, sponsorship and management, she has worked with some of the world’s biggest names including NGOs, media outlets, sporting events and international brands.