Sentences with phrase «at climate change capital»

Lord Turner, who is also chair of the Financial Services Authority, was a trustee of the World Wildlife Fund, and a member of the Board of Advisors at Climate Change Capital, an «investment manager and advisor specialising in the opportunities created by the transition to the low carbon economy».

From 2007 - 2009, Anna worked in London's carbon markets, as Vice President at Climate Change Capital, a specialist investment manager and advisor dedicated to raising and deploying capital for low carbon activities.

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«More capital at the early stage is going to drive the breakthroughs that will drive costs down,» said Brian Deese, Obama's senior adviser on climate change who announced the private - public sector initiative to reporters in Washington.

[2011 paper — 211 cites] Assessing climate change impacts, sea level rise and storm surge risk in port cities: a case study on Copenhagen This study illustrates a methodology to assess the economic impacts of climate change at a city scale and benefits of adaptation, taking the case of sea level rise and storm surge risk in the city of Copenhagen, capital of Denmark.

The multibillion - dollar announcement will come at the opening day of landmark U.N. climate change negotiations in the French capital, and is expected to inject significant momentum to the talks.

A fact sheet distributed at the launch event offered statements of support from Unilever CEO Paul Polman, Mondolēz International Vice President Christine McGrath, and Climate Change Capital CEO Alfred Evans.

The studies show no trends in losses, corrected for changes (increases) in population and capital at risk, that could be attributed to anthropogenic climate change.

Essentially, it requires that spending to prevent climate change should yield at least the same rate of return, in terms of reduced damages from warming, as any other capital investment.

Katherine Vincent specialising in «Social Capital and Climate change» at the UEA, only began her PhD thesis in October 2003.

If you're looking for evidence that — even with the climate deniers in the US Congress and capitals around the world determined to look past the facts just outside their windows — a global shift is underway and momentum for real action to stop climate change is building at every level, just look at what happened at the Climate Summit of the Amclimate deniers in the US Congress and capitals around the world determined to look past the facts just outside their windows — a global shift is underway and momentum for real action to stop climate change is building at every level, just look at what happened at the Climate Summit of the Amclimate change is building at every level, just look at what happened at the Climate Summit of the AmClimate Summit of the Americas.

«I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change... no longer than a decade, at the most,» Hansen said Wednesday at the Climate Change Research Conference in California's state cclimate change... no longer than a decade, at the most,» Hansen said Wednesday at the Climate Change Research Conference in California's state cachange... no longer than a decade, at the most,» Hansen said Wednesday at the Climate Change Research Conference in California's state cClimate Change Research Conference in California's state caChange Research Conference in California's state capital.

McKibbin, W.J., M.T. Ross, R. Shackleton and P.J. Wilcoxen (1999), Emissions Trading, Capital Flows and the Kyoto Protocol, Presented at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III Expert Meeting on the Economic Impacts of Annex 1 Mitigation Policies on non-Annex 1 Countries, 27 - 28 May, The Hague.

And if you look at the water, climate change and depletion issues associated with both oil shale and coal production, you'll see that these energy resources do not provide an ounce of energy security... but just prolong the inevitable, while destroying even more of our natural capital.

Although Brooks favored using the tax revenues to make tax cuts on dividends and capital gains permanent, a stance at odds with CTC's progressive - tax - shift position, he at least grasped the need to reflect climate - change costs in fuel prices.

At Ernst & Young, she started as a consultant in the Venture Capital group, including working on the Entrepreneur of the Year program, and helped the firm to launch and grow both the Cleantech and Climate Change & Sustainability business units.