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Session 23: Energy Policy: The Nascent Role of Environmental Finance and Climate Exchanges in Achieving Energy and Environmental Security
With the issue of global warming and CO2 emissions looming large, the question arises: How can we have both energy and environmental security? Investment banks like JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, as well as GE and Ford, are launching environmental initiatives given the "sustainability" imperative. Any meaningful reduction in emissions would need significant financial, technological, and economic adjustments. The dilemmas are clear, but what are the policy choices and their implications?
Presentations
Hans Tammemagi's slides (PDF)
Links of Interest
Canadian Centre for Energy Information
Speakers
Ellen Hughes Cromwick
Chief Economist
Ford Motor Company, presiding
Mindy S. Lubber
President
Ceres
Mindy S. Lubber is the President of Ceres, the leading U.S. coalition of investors and environmental leaders working to improve corporate environmental, social and governance practices. She also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), an alliance that coordinates U.S. investor responses to the financial risks and opportunities posed by climate change.
INCR activities include organizing the Institutional Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the UN Headquarters, hosting fiduciary training programs for pension fund trustees, producing research reports to improve investor understanding of climate risk, and coordinating engagement of its members with companies, money management firms, and policy makers.
Ms. Lubber has held leadership positions in government as the Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; in the financial services sector as Founder, President and CEO of Green Century Capital Management, an investment firm managing environmentally screened mutual funds; in the private sector as the President of an environmental law and policy consulting group; and in the not-for-profit sector for more than a decade leading environmental and public interest law organizations, including the National Environmental Law Center, which she founded. She was the Senior Advisor and Communications Director to former Governor Michael Dukakis, and for a decade, held leadership positions with the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG), including Chairwoman of the Board of Directors.
Ms. Lubber holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration.
Hans Tammemagi Ph.D.
Canadian Centre for Energy Information
Hans Tammemagi is a writer and environmental consultant located in Pender Island, British Combia. His nuclear interest began when studying the radioactivity of Cornish granites while a research fellow at Imperial College, UK. In 1975 he joined AECL to work on the high-level waste disposal program. He is a member of the Canadian Nuclear Society and served for many years as Chair of the Canadian Nuclear Association's Safety and Environment Committee.
Hans joined the consulting business in 1981 and from 1994 to 2004 operated his own company, Oakhill Environmental in St. Catharines, Ontario. He was an Adjunct Professor at Brock University from 1994 to 2003 where he occasionally lectured in the environmental sciences. He also owned and managed a publishing firm, Oakhill Publishing House. In 2005 he moved to Pender Island to pursue writing on a full-time basis.
Hans is the award-winning author of six books specializing in the environment, science and travel. He had an environmental column in the Downtowner, Niagara’s largest circulation magazine, a monthly travel page in the three Niagara newspapers, and writes regular newspaper and magazine articles. His books include:
- Winning Proposals: How to write them and get results, Self-Counsel Press, 1995. This was a national best-seller.
- Landfills, Incinerators and the Waste Crisis: The search for a sustainable future, 2000. This won the 2000 Niagara Book Prize.
- Exploring Niagara: The complete guide to Niagara Falls and vicinity, Oakhill Publishing House, 1997.
- Unlocking the Atom: The Canadian book on nuclear technology, with David Jackson, McMaster University Press, 2002.
- Exploring the Hill: A guide to Canada’s parliament past and present, Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2002.
- Compelling Communication: Developing the tools for successful and persuasive communication. This was used at Niagara College to teach a communication course, Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2005.
A seventh book on air pollution is in press.
