38: Mark Campanale - Sustainability, Planetary Boundaries, and Changing Capitalism

<div>Mark Campanale is an award winning Sustainable Investment expert, the Founder &amp; 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. </div> <div><br> </div> <div>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.</div> <div> <br> <br> Highlights:</div> <ul> <li>How can we change financial Markets for good? </li> <li>“There is an old saying: How do you change capitalism? You need to take control of the capital.”</li> <li>Mark’s (career) evolution and path to founding Carbon Tracker:<ul> <li>Going to The University of York</li> <li>Crossing the Sahara Desert</li> <li>Becoming an analyst assessing projects for Live Aid</li> <li>Working on the first fairtrade coffee in Tanzania in1988</li> <li>Pioneering green finance alongside Tessa Tennant founder of Merlin Ecology Fund</li> <li>Being one of the first “green analyst” in the City of London</li> <li>Investing in the first renewable energy business</li> </ul> </li> <li>Knowing what you don’t like: Stop the city protest</li> <li>Inspiring women leaders in the industry</li> <li>How global warming motivated Mark to find solutions through the world of finance.</li> <li>Xtrata’s IPO and the lack of sustainable impact information on their documentation.</li> <li>The long list of supporters, advocates and funders of this movement</li> <li>“In the same way that Bill McKibben with the divestment movement managed to change everything, Mark Carney carried this message into the world of financial markets regulation has changed everything.”</li> <li>Re-thinking the purpose of finance: The future of the planet, the security of the financial system and pension schemes.</li> <li>Paris Clima