On Wednesday at the School of Management, James Cameron, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy Executive Fellow and partner at Systemiq, will discuss the lessons he learned as chairman of Climate Change Capital and offer a vision for how finance can drive progress in addressing resource management challenges and global climate change. Lunch will be served.
James Cameron:
An Executive Fellow with the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy. He was previously Vice Chairman of Climate Change Capital, responsible for strategic and sector development, and Chairman of the Advisory Board, representing the firm at the highest levels of business and government. James is one of the world’s pre-eminent experts in developing market-based policy responses to climate change. Prior to CCC, he was Counsel to Baker & McKenzie and was the founder and the head of their Climate Change Practice. James has spent much of his legal career working on climate change matters, including negotiating the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol as an adviser to the Alliance of Small Island States. He has held academic positions at Cambridge, London, Bruges and Sydney. As a barrister, he appeared in several of the leading cases in environmental law. He was also previously the Chairman of the Carbon Disclosure Project and a treasurer of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP). He is a member of the board of GE Ecomagination.