Mark Campanale
Mark Campanale is the Founder and Executive Director of Carbon Tracker Initiative, a non-profit financial think tank, and Co-Founder of Planet Tracker, a non-profit think tank aligning capital markets with planetary boundaries. He is responsible for management strategy, board matters and developing the capital markets framework analysis. He is also the creator of the "unburnable carbon" capital markets thesis, now a commonplace in climate finance language. Mark has over 25 years of experience in sustainable financial markets working for major institutional asset management companies. He is a Co-Founder of some of the first responsible investment funds at Jupiter Asset Management, NPI, AMP Capital, and Henderson Global Investors.
Mark Campanale Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder and Executive Director
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Investment Analyst
Academic History
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M.S., Agricultural Economics
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B.A., Politics and Economic History
Under his leadership, Carbon Tracker has grown cementing further terms such as carbon budgets and stranded assets in the financial and environmental lexicon.
The firm is best known for its work on "stranded assets" and the "carbon bubble."
The firm also provides transition analysis for the members of Climate Action 100+.
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Member of the Advisory Council, SASB
Member of the Advisory Council, ImapctBase.org
Member of the Advisory Council, UNEP-WRI
Advisor, Faith Invest
Advisory Board Member, GFANZ
Advisory Board Member, Glasgow Finance Alliance for Net Zero
Member of the Advisory Council, Moore Foundation’s Conservation & Markets Initiative
Visiting Lecturer, University of Cambridge's Sustainable Finance Program
EARLY CAREER
Mark is 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 between 1994 and 1999, the AMP Capital Sustainable Future Funds, and Henderson Global Investors Industries of the Future Funds from 1999-2008.
He was a Non-Executive Director of Emerald Bioenergy and Princeton Cogeneration, Director of Impact Investment Consultants, and Founder of The Social Stock Exchange.
Mark served on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development working group on capital markets leading up to the 1992 Earth Summit.
He was a Member of the Steering Committee of UNEP Financial Sector Initiative and continues to advise a number of investment funds.
SPEAKING & PUBLICATIONS
He is a popular speaker on climate finance, energy transition and investor risks and opportunities.
He speaks widely on the work of Carbon Tracker across the world to governments, policy makers, investor groups, energy industry and academic audiences at COPs, climate action weeks, investor and energy industry conferences.
He commissioned and was editor of Unburnable Carbon – Are the World’s Financial Markets Carrying a Carbon Bubble? report.