Marquette S-Lab Annual Report

Each year, the Marquette Sustainability Lab, led by Christopher K. Merker, Ph.D., CFA, produces a report on the state of the sustainability economy. This report identifies the root causes of our current sustainability recession and offers tangible guidance to CFOs, utility planners, engineers, investment managers, city managers and procurement leads.

The report is timed to coincide with the Nexus Sustainability Leaders Summit each year, which gathers sustainable economy professionals together each October in a joint event between Marquette Business and The Water Council.

We hope there are insights in this report that can help your organization combine what’s good for business with what’s good for the Earth.

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.