Posted on by Christopher K. Merker, Ph.D., CFA

Climate Week NYC – September 24, 2020

Amazing agenda for our upcoming 3rd event – in addition to recapping the barrage of recent reports, we will be featuring our friends Mark Lewis of BNP Paribas on the future of hydrogen and carbon pricing, Sophie Purdom on her excellent Climate Tech VC, Gerard Barron on the critical importance of ethical deep sea mining, Stewart Investors on Why Climate Measures Don’t Make Sense and How to Fix them, Christopher K. Merker, Ph.D., CFA and Matt Orsagh of the CFA Institute on “Shortermism,” Jyoti Banerjee on placing a regenerative lens on investment and my own call for working with China on climate change Modern China: Financial Cooperation for Solving Sustainability Challenges

https://www.climateweeknyc.org/event/you-missed-tldr-best-new-ideas-sustainable-finance

Author: Christopher K. Merker, Ph.D., CFA

Christopher K. Merker, PhD, CFA, is a director with Private Asset Management at Robert W. Baird & Co. He holds a PhD in investment governance and fiduciary effectiveness from Marquette University, where he has taught the course “Sustainable Finance” since 2009. Executive director of Fund Governance Analytics (FGA), an ESG research partnership with Marquette University, he is a member of the CFA Institute ESG Working Group, an international committee currently exploring ESG standards, publishes the blog, Sustainable Finance, which covers current topics around governance and sustainability in investing, and is co-author of the book, The Trustee Governance Guide: The Five Imperatives of 21st Century Investing.
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