NY Lecture Series: The New Climate Economy Featuring Jeremy Oppenheim

The New Climate Economy Featuring Jeremy Oppenheim On Wednesday, April 8, 2015, North Shore Land Alliance held its sixth annual New York Lecture Series event at the Explorers Club in New York City. This year’s featured speaker was Jeremy Oppenheim, Program Director of the New Climate Economy Project. Oppenheim, a distinguished speaker on global resource productivity and sustainability and author of Resource Revolution: Meeting the World’s Energy, Materials, Food and Water Needs, led an engaging and important discussion on how to combine economic growth with the protection of irreplaceable environmental assets. Jeremy presented an overview of The New Climate Economy Project which provides independent and authoritative evidence on the relationship between actions which can strengthen economic performance and those which reduce the risk of dangerous climate change. For the last five years, Jeremy has led McKinsey & Co’s Sustainability and Resource Productivity Practice. He is on sabbatical from his role as a Director of McKinsey to head up his project. Jeremy has worked with a wide range of private, public and social sector clients in many different countries. He has advised both developed and developing countries on ways in which they can combine robust economic growth with the protection of irreplaceable environmental assets, and has worked with leading corporations across the energy, mining, consumer goods, engineering and finance sectors. Jeremy has also served many of the world’s public international institutions, with a focus on their sustainable development and resource productivity strategies. We thank Mr. Oppenheim for coming to New York from the UK to talk to Land Alliance members and friends about this important topic. We also thank those who attended in support of the Land Alliance! Special Thanks to Event Sponsors: Suzy and Carter Bales * Roberta and Steve Denning * Alison and Tom Franco * Edward Nelson & Gibson, Dunne and Crutcher Georgia and Donald Gogel * Anne and Michael Golden * The Stewart and Constance Greenfield Foundation Lawrence Linden Adrianna Ma * Anne and Vincent Mai * Bridget and John Macaskill * Avanti and Juno Madan Hollis Russell & the William C. & Joyce C. O’Neil Charitable Trust Kim Elliman and the Open Space Institute * Elizabeth and Douglas Paul * Carol and Nicholas Paumgarten * The Robins Island Foundation * Victoria Shaw and Edwin Cohen * Silda Wall Spitzer * Missie and Zach Taylor

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