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Any doubt about how far the eviros have infiltrated should be answered.

IT’S ALL ABOUT MONEY.

They want us to bail out the European Union. OH HELL NO.

IIGCC Constitution
Background
The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) was established in 2001 as an opportunity for collaboration between asset owners and asset managers to address the investment risks and opportunities associated with climate change.

In 2005, IIGCC merged its operations with The Climate Group (TCG) to become a semi-autonomous programme within TCG, retaining its identity through the Steering Committee but with day-to-day management carried out by TCG under a Memorandum of Understanding. IIGCC has appointed a programme director in association with TCG to strengthen operational capability.

Strategic Aim
To identify, promote and demonstrate competence throughout the investment process in assessing and actively managing the risks and opportunities relating to climate change and the transition to a secure climate system.

Strategic Objectives
To equip members with the knowledge and tools to assess, engage and actively manage the investment implications of climate change on the assets they own in order to preserve and enhance their value.

To act as champions for the integration of climate risk and opportunities into the everyday functioning of the investment community.

To advocate public policy and market solutions that ensure an orderly and efficient transition to a secure climate system which is consistent with long-term investment objectives.

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The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) is a collaboration of Australian and New Zealand investors focussing on the impact that climate change has on the financial value of investments.

The IGCC recognise that the financial return of an investment is impacted by climate change. As such, the IGCC aims to ensure that the risks and opportunities associated with climate change are incorporated into investment decisions for the ultimate benefit of individual investors.

The IGCC will achieve this by building a forum through which it will:
Raise awareness of the potential impacts, both positive and negative, resulting from climate change to the investment industry, corporate, government and community sectors;

Encourage best practices approaches to facilitate the inclusion of the impacts of climate change in investment analysis by the investment industry; and

Provide information to assist the investment industry to understand and incorporate climate change into the investment decision.

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The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, founded in 1991, is a unique global partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the private financial sector. UNEP works with more than 160 financial institutions and organizations to develop and promote linkages between the environment, sustainability and financial performance.
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Mindy S. Lubber JD, MBA
Director

Email: lubber@ceres.org

Mindy S. Lubber is the Director of the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), as well as the President of Ceres, a leading U.S. coalition of investors and environmental leaders working to improve corporate environmental, social and governance practices.

Lubber has held leadership positions in government as the Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in the financial services sector as Founder, President and CEO of Green Century Capital Management, an investment firm managing environmentally screened mutual funds, in the private sector as the President of an environmental law and policy consulting group and in the not-for-profit sector for more than a decade leading environmental and public interest law organizations, including the National Environmental Law Center, which she founded. Lubber is an attorney and holds an MBA degree.

Dan Bakal
Director, Electric Power Programs

Email: bakal@ceres.org

Dan Bakal is responsible for INCR’s work with electric power companies, overseeing research, working with shareholders on corporate negotiations, and furthering the understanding of environmental risks - with a particular focus on climate risk - faced by the electric power sector.

In 2002, Bakal developed and launched the Electric Power Dialogue, a working group of electric power companies, institutional investors, environmental NGOs, and analysts that focuses on taking action on climate change by reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector. In 2003, the Dialogue published a report containing several recommendations, including a mandatory nationwide cap on carbon dioxide.

Bakal also coordinates Ceres’ Northeast & Canada program, aimed furthering awareness of and action on climate change in Northeastern states and Canada.

Prior to his current position, Bakal served as Ceres’ Director of Outreach, encouraging companies to endorse the Ceres Principles, our ten-point code of conduct on environmental performance.

Before joining Ceres, Bakal worked for several nonprofit environmental and social service organizations, including Rocky Mountain Institute, the Colorado Center for Environmental Management, and Northeastern Family Institute. He has experience consulting with companies to improve their environmental performance, researching trends in corporate social responsibility, and using collaborative decision-making processes to help diverse parties reach consensus. Bakal graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology.

Rob Berridge
Senior Manager, Investor Programs

Email: berridge@ceres.org

Rob is Program Manager in the investor team at Ceres, where he assists investors and companies in addressing the risks and opportunities posed by climate change. Rob helps coordinate various projects of the Investor Network on Climate Risk. Prior to Ceres, Rob served as a board member and Vice President of Green Century Capital Management and as a staff member of US EPA’s Green Lights and Energy Star Programs. He has also worked in commercial lending, as an environmental consultant, and for various recycling organizations. Rob has a degree in Environmental Studies from Brown University and a Masters in Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Betsy Boyle
Manager, Real Estate Programs

Email: boyle@ceres.org

Betsy is responsible for developing the program content for Ceres’annual conference, including plenary sessions and workshops. In addition, she coordinates Ceres’ work to promote energy and resourceefficiency in buildings by working with real estate investors and companies to change the way buildings are designed, constructed, and operated. Prior to this position, Betsy directed the first phase of development of Nexus, a green building resource center in downtown Boston, and from 2000 to 2005 was the director of operations at Ceres and managed finances and administration for the organization. Before that, she worked at the Harvard School of Public Health for seven years in development and administration.

Betsy recently received a Master of Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where she was a Public Service Fellow. She has been a LEED Accredited Professional since 2004.

Jim Coburn
Senior Manager, Investor Programs

Email: coburn@ceres.org

Jim Coburn is a Program Manager at Ceres. He works with institutional investors to improve corporate environmental practices, organizes training workshops for investors, and produces Ceres publications on climate risk. In addition, he manages campaigns to promote mandatory corporate climate risk disclosure and to help investors engage with asset managers to address this risk.

Before joining Ceres, Jim worked for Morgan Stanley, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Co-op America. He holds a BA in Government from Cornell University, a JD from Boston College Law School, and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar.

Peyton Fleming
Communications Director

Email: fleming@ceres.org

Peyton Fleming oversees external communications, media relations, outreach materials and the website for INCR. He joined Ceres in fall 2004, after working for six years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s New England Office in Boston. He has an extensive background in journalism, covering the environment, business and various other issues for more than a decade at such newspapers as the Providence Journal and the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass. He has won several environmental and business reporting awards. Fleming has a B.A. in Intercultural Studies from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

Chris Fox
Director, Investor Programs

Email: fox@ceres.org

Chris Fox is Director of Investor Programs for INCR. Fox has played a central role in organizing the Institutional Investor Summits on Climate Risk at United Nations Headquarters in both 2003 and 2005, and in coordinating Summit follow-up activities. He is co-author of Questions and Answers on Climate Risk for Investors (2004). Fox has overseen the production of several Ceres reports, including “Value at Risk: Climate Change and the Future of Governance” (2002) and “Corporate Governance and Climate Change” (2003). He has coordinated Ceres’ programs aimed at organizing shareholders on climate change since 1998. In addition, in 1997 and 1998, Fox led the development team for the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) project of Ceres.

Before joining Ceres, Fox served as a program associate at the Heinz Family Foundation in Washington, D.C. and was executive director of the Center for Environmental Citizenship. Fox’s professional experience includes working for the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Harvard University Committee on the Environment, the Environmental Leadership Program, and organizing the international Campus Earth Summit at Yale. Fox has conducted research on the responses of the world’s religions to the ecological crisis and received a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree from Harvard University. Fox graduated with honors from Yale University (B.A.).