Past 2009 Carbon Finance Events

Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long Term Performance, co-edited by Cary Krosinsky, Vice President of Trucost, and Nick Robins, head of the HSBC Climate Change Centre of Excellence, highlights how an approach to investing driven by long-term environmental, economic and social factors could help finance a resurgent and more resilient global economy.

Mr. Robins is Head of the Climate Change Centre of Excellence at HSBC in London.  Launched in October of 2007, the Center's mission is to analyze the commercial consequences of climate change for the HSBC Group and its clients.  Prior to joining HSBC, Nick was head of SRI Funds at Henderson Global Investors, designing the strategy for its Industries of the Future portfolio fund and launching the world's first carbon audit of an investment fund.

Mr. Krosinsky is Vice President and lead North American representative for Trucost.  Trucost has built the world's most extensive time series database of over 700 emissions and pollutants as are generated by more than 4,500 public companies around the world.  Cary was a member of the Expert Group in 2005 that created the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) of the United Nations, which has since been committed to by more than $15 trillion of fund managers and asset owners.

The sustainability-minded funds, which integrate environmental factors into management strategies or use best in class or sustainability themed approaches, generated superior returns as part of long-term value creation.  The findings of their book are particularly significant for long- term investors who need to address the carbon risks and opportunities in their portfolios now more than ever, as Governments strive to agree future limits on greenhouse gas emissions at the milestone UN climate change talks in Copenhagen.

 

Recommended Readings

• S&P Launches U.S. Carbon Efficient Index
• The Climate Principles - HSBC Adopts on December 2, 2008
• Climate Confidence Monitor 2008
• HSBC Climate Partnership
• A Climate for Recovery: The Colour of Stimulus Goes Green - by HSBC on February 25 , 2009

Course Recommendations - recommended spring coursework for Yale students interested in this field

• Managing Forests for Carbon Sequestration: Science, Business, Policy
• Agroforestry Systems: Productivity, Environmental Services and Rural Development
• The Economics of Environment and Sustainable Development
• Strategies for Land Conservation
• Institutions and the Environment
• Law of Climate Change
• Economics of Climate Change
• Energy Issues in Developing Countries
• Economics of Natural Resource Management
• Environmental Law and Policy
• Transportation and Urban Land Use Planning: Shaping the 21st Century City
• Transportation, Energy and the Economy
• Microfinance and Economic Development

Event Documents

 

Netcast - Coming Soon

 

Transcription - Coming Soon

 

Presentation - #1 (HSBC), and #2 (Trucost)

 

Event Photos - Coming Soon

 

Event Poster

 

This event is organized in collaboration with the Connecticut chapters of the Trust for Public Land and The Nature Conservancy. CEU Credits will be granted by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (Division of Forestry)- click here for a Certificate of Attendance form.

 

Funding for the Carbon Finance Speaker Series was made possible by a generous grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and the Henry P. Kendall Foundation.