Responsible Investment Forum 2023: Europe

Workshop: Executing decarbonisation plans to drive value creation

Alaric is a Partner in ERM's EMEA Corporate Sustainability ＆ Climate Change team and focuses on unlocking value for private markets clients through decarbonisation. His work focuses both on GPs, as well as their Portfolio companies, and involves the development of the ‘case for change’ for decarbonisation, identification of decarbonisation levers, quantifying costs and benefits, selecting value accretive investments through MACC analysis, and securing PortCo buy-in to execute decarbonisation plans. His work typically focuses on clients in private equity and infrastructure funds. Alaric has a near 30-year career in consulting, focused on climate change strategy, low carbon infrastructure and enabling the energy transition.

Workshop: Making biodiversity and natural capital relevant to PE investing

Kerstin Pfliegner is a partner for corporate sustainability and climate change with ERM leading these advisory services in Central and Eastern Europe. As international expert for biodiversity and nature-based solutions, she drives ERM’s work on nature-related strategy and disclosure as well as carbon markets and offsetting. She is advising PEI clients, finance sector and industry clients on these emerging topics and runs trainings for portfolio companies. Kerstin previously worked with The Nature Conservancy and the WWF developing corporate nature-based solutions and impact investment projects as well as a climate and biodiversity advisor to the German Ministry of Environment and the United Nations.