Friday March 3, 2023 at 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM PT
Virtual Event
Join Crowdsourcing Sustainability, As You Sow, Atmos Financial, and BankFWD (a primary contributor to the Carbon Bankroll Report!) for a panel discussion about climate-positive banking and investing, and how you can make sure your money is supporting climate solutions rather than climate collapse.
We know the mainstream banking and investment industries are bankrolling the climate crisis through their continued funding of fossil fuel exploration, infrastructure, and development. But what can we do about it? Reclaim our money!
Through this panel with experts from various perspectives in the sustainable banking and investing space, you'll learn:
How your and/or your organization's money is currently supporting fossil fuels through the mainstream banking and investing industry.
What you and your organization can do to change your money's impact, and affect the financial industry overall.
Why it all matters — the difference in impact between the status quo and climate-positive financial solutions so you feel clear about why making the switch is so important.
Panelists:
Andrew Behar - CEO of As You Sow
Andrew Behar is CEO of As You Sow, the nation’s leading non-profit practitioner of shareholder advocacy and engagement. With a 30-year track record of success, As You Sow advances values-aligned investing and uses shareholder power to compel companies to reduce material risk on issues including climate change; toxins in the food system; ocean plastics; diversity, equity, and inclusion; racial justice; and wage equity. Previously Andrew was a documentary filmmaker and entrepreneur founding start-ups developing an innovative physiological monitoring medical device and grid-scale fuel cells. He is currently on the board of the Responsible Sourcing Network. His book, The Shareholders Action Guide: Unleash Your Hidden Powers to Hold Corporations Accountable, was published in November 2016 by Berrett-Koehler.
Vanessa Fajans-Turner - Executive Director of BankFWD
Vanessa Fajans-Turner is a climate leader and ocean enthusiast. She’s the executive director of BankFWD, an organization accelerating climate action by the banking sector. She’s a principal with Investable Oceans, a fundraising platform for sustainable ocean start-ups and an advisor to the City of Ithaca’s nation-leading Green New Deal. She’s previously worked for various UN agencies around the world and helped lead filmmaker James Cameron’s climate-focused foundation, the Avatar Alliance, and media projects, like the Emmy-winning series Years of Living Dangerously. She’s a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was known as the “climate candidate” during her recent run for congress in upstate New York.
Ravi Mikkelsen - Cofounder & CEO of Atmos Bank
Ravi is the Co-founder and CEO of Atmos Financial where he works to transform every bank into a climate bank. Ravi has been working in clean energy since 2000 when he had a moment of epiphany that his mission in life is to move the world off of fossil fuels. He switched from energy generation to finance in 2015 in order to help scale low-capital deployment into the trillions needed to stop climate change.