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Membership
The list of academic and research staff for the Business and Climate Change group is available in the People section.
Introduction
In 2008 the Business School decided to make business and climate change one of its key areas for development, and has established the Centre for Business and Climate Change to lead activities in this area. This is in recognition of the likely impact of climate change and climate change policy for the business community in the coming decades, and the vital role companies have in helping society mitigate and adapt to climate change.
With this in mind, it has a successful MSc programme in Carbon Management, in collaboration with the School of Geosciences and has recently launched an additional MSc in Carbon Finance; it is involved in the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at the London School of Economics; it has created a successful spin-out research company, ENDS Carbon; it supports the development of FTSE4Good the FTSE CDP Carbon Strategy Index; and has been instrumental in the development of the Association of Carbon Professionals.
The Centre is staffed by: Dr Craig Mackenzie who focuses on carbon indices and benchmarking, and sustainable investment and shareholder activism; Dr Lise Tole conducts research into environmental economics and management, Francisco Ascui who is working in Carbon Markets and Carbon Finance, and Sarah Ivory is a Research Fellow specialising in Climate Change Strategy. Several other academics in the School are involved in climate change teaching and research. The School also collaborates with a substantial network of academics focused on climate change who work throughout the University.
The Centre is uniquely positioned in three respects: its very high level of corporate engagement and knowledge transfer; its development of innovative empirical impact assessment methodologies for shareholder activism and sustainable investment; and its unique level of cross-disciplinary collaboration, particularly with the School of Geosciences, but also at the national and regional level via its connections with the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and the cross-disciplinary, multi-university Edinburgh Climate Change Centre.
