Mark Campanale is an award winning Sustainable Investment expert, the Founder & Executive Director of the Carbon Tracker Initiative and conceived the ‘unburnable carbon’ capital markets thesis. He has twenty-five years experience in sustainable financial markets working for major institutional asset management companies. 

Please listen to the episode to be inspired beyond any boundaries and read the “More about Mark Campanale” section at the end of these notes to learn more about his outstanding career and contribution to the financial markets and our society at large.

Highlights:

Time Stamp:

[01:14] Who is Mark Campanale - An introduction to his Bio

[05:25] What is sustainable and impact investing? Intention and boundaries?

[08:03] What ignited Mark’s passion in sustainable finance?

[17:50] Background 10 years story of how Carbon Tracker started and materialised - including funding

[24:00] Wasted Capital and Stranded Assets: coining the phrase together with Unburnable Carbon

[26:00] Ideas are a cursed and the purpose of markets

[28:00] Working with investors and educating the market, including Pension Trustees

[31:00] Bill McKibben, Mark Carney, and their impact

[34:00] The role of the private sector: investors, shareholder, fiduciary duties and pension funds

[36:00] The network of initiatives linking into Planet Tracker and measuring the impact on Ecological boundaries

[40:00] Supply chain: Fish stock as natural capital, deforestation, agriculture and meat production

[42:00] Climate Action 100 and its $46trn coalition and the change on valuations

[45:00] The need for a forceful intervention to close the Fossil Fuels sector

[46:00] The role of firms such as Share Action and Litigation Funds

[48:00] Using AI to create transparency and accountability on Carbon Emissions reporting

[49:20] What impresses Mark about Impact Leaders

[52:00] Call to action





Useful links:

Mark Campanale - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-campanale-1886203/

Carbon Tracker - https://carbontracker.org/

Unburnable Carbon - https://carbontracker.org/resources/terms-list/

Planet Tracker - https://planet-tracker.org/

Robin Millington - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-millington-60036817

Robin Millington - https://planet-tracker.org/about-us/the-team/

Tear Fund - https://www.tearfund.org/

University of York - https://www.york.ac.uk/

Tessa Mary Tennant OBE - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa_Tennant

Jupiter Ecology Fund - https://www.jupiteram.com/UK/en/Individual-Investors/Funds-and-Prices/Jupiter-Ecology-Fund

Stop The City protests - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_the_City

Anne Simpson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-simpson-a3024328

CalPERS - https://www.calpers.ca.gov/page/investments/about-investment-office/investment-office-senior-team/anne-simpson

Climate Action 100 - http://www.climateaction100.org/

Waste Recycling Group (Now FCC Environment) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_Environment

Asia Energy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCM_Resources

Xtrata - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xstrata

Glencore - https://www.glencore.com/

Jeremy Leggett - https://jeremyleggett.net/

Rockefeller Brothers Fund - https://www.rbf.org/

Joseph Rowntree Foundation - https://www.jrf.org.uk/

Green Peace - https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/

Friends of the Earth -  https://friendsoftheearth.uk/

Christian Aid https://www.christianaid.org.uk/

James Arbib https://uk.linkedin.com/in/james-arbib-6883973a

Nic Hurd - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Hurd

Zac Goldsmith - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zac_Goldsmith

Lord Stern - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Stern,_Baron_Stern_of_Brentford

Financial Times article: “A profound contradiction at the heart of climate change policy” https://www.ft.com/content/52f2709c-20f0-11e1-8a43-00144feabdc0

Bill McKibben - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McKibben

Rolling Stone magazine article: “Global Warmings Terrifying New Math” -  https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-188550/

Mark Carney - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Carney

Mark Carney’s Tragedy of the Horizon Speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5c-eqNxeSQ

Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures - https://www.fsb-tcfd.org/

Ellen Dorsey, Wallace Global Fund - http://wgf.org/ellen-dorsey/

Natasha Landell-Mills, Sarasin & Partners - https://sarasinandpartners.com/stewardship/

Saker Nusseibeh CBE - https://www.hermes-investment.com/ukw/team-members/saker-nusseibeh/

https://www.icgn.org/speakers/saker-nusseibeh-chief-executive-officer-hermes-investment-management

Oak Foundation - https://oakfnd.org/

Frederick Mulder Foundation - http://www.frederickmulderfoundation.org.uk/

Steve Waygood, Aviva Investors - https://www.avivainvestors.com/en-gb/about/our-people/s/steve-waygood/

Tzeporah Berman, Fossil Fuel Non-proliferation Treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzeporah_Berman

Aristata Capital - Litigation Fund - https://www.aristata.co.uk/

Watt Time - https://www.watttime.org/

Gavin McCormick - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinmccormick





Key Articles:

Financial Times article: “A profound contradiction at the heart of climate change policy” https://www.ft.com/content/52f2709c-20f0-11e1-8a43-00144feabdc0

Rolling Stone magazine article: “Global Warmings Terrifying New Math” -  https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-188550/

Bloomberg article: Stranded Assets’ Risk Rising With Climate Action and $40 Oil. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-11/why-climate-action-40-oil-create-stranded-assets-quicktake

How AI and satellites can help cut emissions | The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation - https://www.leonardodicaprio.org/how-ai-and-satellites-can-help-cut-emissions/

Al Gore and Gavin McCormick - CEO of WattTime - announced the launch of a New coalition called “CLIMATE TRACE”  — which stands for “Tracking Real-time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions” - https://medium.com/@algore/we-can-solve-the-climate-crisis-by-tracing-pollution-back-to-its-sources-4f535f91a8dd





More about Mark Campanale:



Mark was a co-founder of some of the first responsible investment funds, firstly at Jupiter Asset Management in 1989 with the Ecology Funds, NPI with Global Care, the AMP Capital Sustainable Future Funds, and Henderson Global Investor’s Industries of the Future Funds.



Mark served on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development working group on capital markets ... leading up to the 1992 Earth Summit; was a Member of the Steering Committee of UNEP Financial Sector Initiative (1999-2003) and continues to advise a number of financial institutions including Tribe Impact Capital and Consilium Capital.  



Mark is a Founder Director of the UK Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum (UKSIF), 1990-2006, is a member of the Advisory Council of ImpactBase.org; a member of the Advisory Board of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s ‘Conservation and Markets Initiatives’; a member of UNCTAD’s Sustainable Stock Exchange’s Green Finance Advisory Group; and is the Hon Treasurer of The Rainforest Foundation UK. 



Mark was also Founder of the Social Stock Exchange, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and more recently Big Society Capital.

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