UBS Carbon Capture & Storage Seminar
The Environment Council is engaged in a unique collaboration with UBS, facilitating a series of thematic seminars to increase engagement and knowledge sharing between Institutional Investors, SRI and NGO communities.
The Environment Council is engaged in a unique collaboration with UBS, facilitating a series of thematic seminars to increase engagement and knowledge sharing between Institutional Investors, SRI and NGO communities. SRI fund managers have to take account of a constantly changing set of issues and NGO positions are often a key factor in the level of risk around such issues. Campaigners’ perspectives are taken into account through individual meetings and research, but this information stream can be much improved through a regular forum for investors to meet with environmental and social NGOs, establish relationships, develop understanding and discuss issues.
The Environment Council has, in partnership with UBS, established this forum as an innovative way of helping to improve decision-making and increase clarity around difficult investment issues. In April 2008, The Environment Council organised the first in the series of seminars, hosted by UBS Socially Responsible Investment, on the investment opportunities and environmental benefits of developing Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies.Speakers including: Dr Jeff Chapman (Chief Executive, Carbon Capture and Storage Association), Neil Crumpton (Energy Specialist, Friends of the Earth), Dr Jon Gibbins (Senior Lecturer, Imperial College Energy Technology for Sustainable Development Group), and Nick Mabey (Founding Director & CEO, E3G) addressed the following issues:
| > | Is CCS a solution to the conflicting needs of power generation and CO2 reduction? |
| > | What are companies doing in CCS? Which technology is likely to prevail? |
| > | What are the barriers and opportunities for success? How is legislation likely to impact on its development? |
To download the full report from The Environment Council please click here. If you would like a copy of the audio CD-rom with the speaker presentations please contact Shirley Knott at UBS SRI and Sustainability Research. For further information about the SRI-NGO engagement project with UBS please contact Winsome Grigor (020 7632 0108).