About Us
Global Footprint Network is a research organization that bridges science, policy, and economics to change how the world manages its natural resources. We’ve engaged with more than 50 nations and 70 global partners to deliver scientific insights that have driven high-impact policy and investment decisions.
Global Footprint Network’s Finance for Change Initiative was launched to more deeply analyze and expose the links between climate change, resource constraints, economic performance, and sovereign credit ratings. Our methodology taps the national and trade resource accounting metrics that Global Footprint Network has been calculating for more than a decade.
Meet Our Team
Our Partners
Global Footprint Network and South Pole Group created the Carbon Disclosure Working Group to support asset owners and managers by developing a clearer framework for climate assessment and carbon disclosure in sovereign debt and facilitating greater disclosure to improve risk management. While methodologies have been developed to measure and manage the carbon footprint for corporate equity and debt, no standards for carbon disclosure of sovereign bond investments exist yet. The Working Group aims to address this gap.
Members of the working group currently include:
BlackRock (US)
MN (Asset owner in the Netherlands)
Alliance Bernstein (US)
Degroof Petercam Asset Management (DPAM) (Belgium)
Vontobel (Switzerland)
Aegon Asset Management (Netherlands)
BT Pension Scheme (UK)
Nippon Life Global Investors (Singapore)
Facilitating Organizations:
2° Investing Initiative
Sustainable Finance Programme, University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
For more information, please contact Jag Alexeyev, jag.alexeyev@footprintnetwork.org, +1-510-839-8879.
The Advisory Council has been created to guide Global Footprint Network’s Finance for Change Initiative.
Members currently include:
Charles Anderson
Charles has served in a number of CEO roles across the financial services sector with a strong focus on sustainable business practice and organization development. His most recent roles were as the Director General of UNEP FI and as the CEO of Sovereign (New Zealand’s largest life and health insurance business). He now serves on a number of boards related to finance and the environment.
Ben Caldecott
Ben Caldecott is the Founder and Director of the Sustainable Finance Programme at the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He is concurrently an Adviser to The Prince of Wales’s Accounting for Sustainability Project, an Academic Visitor at the Bank of England, and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. Ben specialises in environment, energy, and sustainability issues and works at the intersection between finance, government, civil society, and academe, having held senior roles in each domain.
Darius Nassiry
Darius specializes in climate finance and investment in sustainable development. He is a senior research associate at the Overseas Development Institute, where he focuses on finance for implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change, and is also a member of Climate Bonds Initiative’s recently formed advisory team.
John Fullerton
John is the Founder and President of Capital Institute; a non-partisan think-tank working to explore and effect the economic transition to a more just, regenerative, and thus sustainable way of living on this earth through the transformation of finance. Jon is also the Owner and Principal of Level 3 Capital Advisor’s LLC whose investments are focused on sustainable, regenerative land use, food and water issues. John writes the “Future of Finance” blog which is widely syndicated on platforms such as The Guardian and The Huffington Post.
Anthony Hobley
Anthony has been CEO of the Carbon Tracker Initiative since February 2014. Previously he was a partner and Global Head of the Sustainability & Climate Finance Practice at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. Formerly he was General Counsel to the Climate Change Capital Carbon Fund. Anthony specialised in climate change and clean energy law as well as international environmental law. He has been heavily involved in designing carbon markets in the UK, EU, Australia and Asia. Anthony holds a First Class Honours Degree in Chemistry & Physics and a LLM in Environmental Law. He writes and speaks widely on climate risk and the financial sector.
Moritz Kraemer
Moritz is the Global Chief Rating Officer of Sovereign Ratings at S&P Global. In this role he focuses on coordinating global analytics and leading research and market outreach for S&P sovereign ratings. Prior to joining S&P, Moritz was a Country Economist with the Inter-American Development Bank, working with governments in Latin American in the design and implementation of economic policy reforms.
Richard Lewney
Richard is the Chairman of Cambridge Econometrics which has provided rigorous, accessible and relevant independent economic analysis to support strategic planners and policy-makers in business and government since 1978. Richard specializes in the application of economic modelling to policy analysis, policy evaluation and forecasting, for government and private sector clients.
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