Cary Krosinsky

Cary Krosinsky is a leading teacher, author and advisor on sustainable finance. His five books include the recent Sustainable Investing: Revolutions in Theory and Practice, selected by the People’s Bank of China for translation into the government’s official Green Finance Series in 2018. His teaching includes a popular class on sustainable investing at Brown, as Lecturer, Yale School of Management on Sustainable Finance including within the Executive MBA program, on Energy Studies at Yale College where he is also serves on the Faculty Advisory Committee, and he was co-designer/teacher within the RFK Human Rights Sustainable Investing Program at the Earth Institute with $15T of assets represented among participants.

He is also Co-Founder and Director of the Carbon Tracker Initiative and Real Impact Tracker, Editor of the Journal of Environmental Investing, and a member of the NY State Common Decarbonization Advisory Panel, appointed by Governor Cuomo and Comptroller DiNapoli. His most recent paper contribution was to the China-UK Green Finance Taskforce on Delivering a Greener Tomorrow; with other recent papers including those published by the the PRI and the UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System in 2015 including a Framework for Asset Owner Strategy on Climate Change.

Books include Sustainable Investing: Revolutions in Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2017), a look at the present and future of investing where financial success requires a sustainability focus, and at the same time, desired outcomes require a business case, following two previous books with Nick Robins among other leading contributors.

He is also Senior Advisor to BlueSky Investment Management, Principal at NPV Associates, Co-founder and Director of Real Impact Tracker and the Carbon Tracker Initiative, and Editor of the Journal of Environmental Investing, now in its 8th year. The next issue and a related symposium on The State of ESG Data and Metrics are being guest edited and hosted at Yale on September 21-22, 2017.

He also co-created Systems Finance at Yale in 2016, led a Working Group in 2015 for the Principles for Responsible Investment developing its Climate Change Asset Owner Strategy framework and advised to the UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System authoring papers that include The Value of Everything among other papers following earlier careers in environmental and institutional investment analytics and technology.