Christopher Walker

Articles written by Christopher Walker

• Investors call on big pharma to link executive pay to vaccine equity

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  • Investment,
  • Social impact

  

  Investors call on big pharma to link executive pay to vaccine equity

  Posted in category:

  • Investment,
  • Social impact

  18 Jan 2022

  A €3 trillion investor coalition led by Achmea is asking the main Covid-19 vaccine manufactures – Pfizer (BioNTech), Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and Astra Zeneca – to link executive pay to increased availability of vaccines across the globe…

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Profile: Jane Burston is fighting a killer

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment

  

  Profile: Jane Burston is fighting a killer

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment

  12 Jan 2022

  A near-death experience prompted Jane Burston to devote her life to climate change. Now the founder of Clean Air Fund is fighting a killer: air pollution. CV Jane Burston Executive Director, Clean Air Fund 2018-present Member, Global Future Council on Energy, WEF 2016-2019; Co-Chair, Global Future Council on Clean Air, WEF, 2020-present Head of Energy […]

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Profile: Katherine Lucey is chasing away the dark, one ‘solar sister’ at a time

  Posted in category:

  • Energy access

  

  Profile: Katherine Lucey is chasing away the dark, one ‘solar sister’ at a time

  Posted in category:

  • Energy access

  04 Jan 2022

  Katherine Lucey tells us how she is bringing light to sub-Saharan Africa with an army of female entrepreneurs: “No one should go to bed just because the lights go out.”

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Book review: ‘The Business of Less’ by Roland Geyer

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment

  

  Book review: ‘The Business of Less’ by Roland Geyer

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment

  04 Jan 2022

  Professor Geyer asks plenty of pointed questions. If corporate greening is really making such tremendous strides, then why is the world’s health deteriorating? In his book he argues for a new, ‘net-green’ paradigm.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Book review: ‘Impact – Reshaping capitalism to drive real change’ by Ronald Cohen

  Posted in category:

  • Investment

  

  Book review: ‘Impact – Reshaping capitalism to drive real change’ by Ronald Cohen

  Posted in category:

  • Investment

  21 Dec 2021

  Leading the ‘Impact Revolution’ – now in paperback, Ronald Cohen’s classic remains a best seller for good reason.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Profile: Why impact investors must join the diversity battle

  Posted in category:

  • Gender equality,
  • Social impact

  

  Profile: Why impact investors must join the diversity battle

  Posted in category:

  • Gender equality,
  • Social impact

  21 Dec 2021

  Diandra Soobiah, the new co-Chair of the 30% Club, calls for our support as she expands the gender equality group’s mission: “This is still a fight for some. We still have a long way to go.”

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Why investors are increasingly betting on greening the maritime fleet

  Posted in category:

  • Energy transition

  

  Why investors are increasingly betting on greening the maritime fleet

  Posted in category:

  • Energy transition

  13 Dec 2021

  With the maritime sector agreeing to a 40% cut in emissions by 2030, private investors are increasingly betting on greening the maritime fleet, a market that may be worth up to $4tn.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Why Gresham House is betting the farm on growing plants indoors

  Posted in category:

  • Agri-food

  

  Why Gresham House is betting the farm on growing plants indoors

  Posted in category:

  • Agri-food

  06 Dec 2021

  Gresham House, one of London’s oldest asset managers, is betting big on vertical farming. Peter Bachmann, its head of sustainable infrastructure, believes this high-tech agriculture is at a “breakthrough point”.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Under a new name, UK development bank prioritises clean infrastructure investments

  Posted in category:

  • Development finance,
  • Investment

  

  Under a new name, UK development bank prioritises clean infrastructure investments

  Posted in category:

  • Development finance,
  • Investment

  30 Nov 2021

  In an exclusive interview Nick O’Donohoe, the CEO of CDC, the UK development finance institution, reveals details of the bank’s new strategy, a new Chair, and even a new name.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Macquarie: The energy transition is changing infrastructure investment

  Posted in category:

  • Energy transition

  

  Macquarie: The energy transition is changing infrastructure investment

  Posted in category:

  • Energy transition

  25 Nov 2021

  “In some ways, wind and solar investments are old news,” says Chris Leslie, Global Head of Sustainability at Macquarie Asset Management. “The focus now is on technologies that enable the energy transition.”

  

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  • Christopher Walker