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Climate Change & Evolving Investment Strategies


Date & time
Friday, October 23, 2015
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Speaker(s)

Cary Krosinsky

Cost

Free

Contact

Tejaswinee Jhunjhunwala
514-848-2424 ext. 2863

Where

John Molson School of Business Building
1450 Guy
Room
MB 6.240 (sixth floor)

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

The David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at the John Molson School of Business presents Cary Krosinsky, Lead Consultant, Principles of Responsible Investing.

Cary Krosinsky, Lead Consultant, Principles of Responsible Investing

Although Montreal has long been a leading city in sustainable investing, the rest of North America and Europe are now waking up to the new investment imperative being imposed by climate change. This is manifesting in ways that were largely not predicted, including, for example, the lower price of oil affecting Alberta operations, student calls for divestment, Pope Francis speaking to a Joint Session of the US Congress and Millennials inheriting money seeking a better way to invest. Large asset owners, banks and fund managers are responding in some cases for the first time, with great implications for students seeking future careers, and for those who risk being left behind if not adjusting to these modern realities. We will also consider the future for the design of sustainable financial systems, on the back of the landmark reports of the UNEP Inquiry having been just released at the World Bank's Annual Meeting in Lima, Peru.

About Cary Krosinsky

Cary Krosinsky is an independent author, editor, advisor and educator on the subject of business, sustainability and investing.

He teaches two seminars at Yale: a Residential College Seminar, Business and Sustainability, and co-teaches a graduate seminar, Climate and International Energy within YCEI (Yale Climate and Energy Institute), as well as an MBA class at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. He has taught and designed similar courses at Columbia University since 2009 including through a partnership with Kerry Kennedy’s RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights and has advised to Cambridge’s Investment Leaders Group, with over $20T in assets under management across these groups.

His books include Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long Term Performance and Evolutions in Sustainable Investing. He helped develop the Value Driver Model body of work in late 2013 for the UN Global Compact including a paper, case studies and toolkit, and is co-author in 2014 of A New Vision of Value for KPMG. In 2015, he is lead consultant to PRI on their new Climate Change Asset Owner Project with a first paper out in June and is also consulting to the UNEP Inquiry for the Design of a Sustainable Financial System and is a Director of the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets. He also oversees and provides content for About.com regarding Sustainable Investing, and acts as Sustainability/ESG Advisor for RLP Wealth Management, Editor of the Journal of Environmental Investing, and is Co-Founder of the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

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