Eco Talks at BRLSI: Sustainable finance and transition momentum

How do we build a sustainable future? If you’re looking for something to inspire you this season ‘Eco Talks at BRLSI ‘ delivers inspiring and thought provoking content on the issue of climate change and conservation. Continuing with Sustainable finance and transition momentum with author and expert on Sustainable finance Cary Krosinsky, BRLSI will deliver monthly talks and films exploring how to best futureproof the planet against rising global challenges. 

Societal challenges are becoming more serious and complex.  Whether the effects on jobs from the rise of AI, or looming climate change effects and extreme weather among other environmental realities being experienced on the ground around the world, the need for successful transitions is clear. 

Necessary progress, however, has been lacking and is politically stymied; how can essential progress become fully enabled? Transition Momentum, the latest offering from Cary Krosinsky, provides critical insight into ways forward that can usher in a new age of transition sufficiency.

The book explores New Measures and Mechanisms, including a better GDP, which we call Transition Momentum.  GDP goals are insufficient for helping guide country level strategies with the need for simultaneous environmental and social outcomes in mind.   The future of knowledge is also considered, as well as how to truly enable transitions, with learnings from early attempts at corporate, investor and country level progress as well as the future of the COP Process in mind. We also provide insight from leading thinkers we greatly respect, as there are many important perspectives to consider when it comes to getting transitions right and no one person or country likely has the full answer.  We are stronger when learning from each other, listening and collaborating for mutually achieved success, including economically and financially.

BIO

Cary Krosinsky is a widely respected educator, leading author and advisor on sustainable finance whose ongoing teaching includes popular courses at Brown, Yale and NYU. He also acts as an Adjunct Professor at SIPA in spring 2022 to help oversee a capstone projects sponsored by the World Bank since 2020 on Greening Global Pension Funds.

His fifth book was on Modern China and the need for better relations to solve societal challenges, from 2020. His first book was published in 2008, Sustainable Finance, The Art of Long Term Performance with Nick Robins. He is also Co-Founder and Director of the Sustainable Finance Institute, which hosted its first event on the Future of Sustainable Finance in China at Peking University HSBC Business School in Shenzhen in January 2019, featuring leading investors with emerging investment solutions across asset class, many of whom are profiled in this upcoming new book.

He is also Co-Founder of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, its parent Investor Watch and was a member of the NY State Common Decarbonization Advisory Panel appointed by Governor Cuomo and Comptroller DiNapoli 2018-19 leading to the fund’s $20B Climate Action Plan, and author/co-author of many previous papers including for the China-UK Green Finance Taskforce, for the UNEP Inquiry on the Value of Everything and for PRI in 2015 developing a framework for asset owners on climate change strategy