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 VCGerard 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. and executive-in-residence and co-director of the Marquette S-Lab. He is also founder and chair of the board of Water + Energy Forward, a green bank focused on market-based climate solutions. He holds a PhD in investment governance and fiduciary effectiveness from Marquette University, where he has taught “Sustainable Finance” since 2009. He publishes Sustainable Finance and is co-author of The Trustee Governance Guide: The Five Imperatives of 21st Century Investing.