Zero Carbon the Climate Justice Way
Speakers
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Foreign Secretary's Special Representative for Climate Change, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Sir David King is The Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change and Chairman of the Futures Cities Catapult.
Sir David King was Senior Scientific Advisor to UBS, Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, Chair of the UK National Oceanography Advisory Board and NED of Midatech Limited, as well as Adviser to President Kagame of Rwanda.
He was the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser 2000 - 2007. He served as Founding Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University, 2008 – 2012, Head of the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University, 1993 – 2000, and Master of Downing College Cambridge 1995 – 2000.
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991; Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002; knighted in 2003; made “Officier dans l’ordre national de la Légion d’Honeur” in 2009.
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Tasso Azevedo is a social entrepreneur in the field of forests, sustainability and climate change and Technical Coordinator of the Climate Observatory. Tasso is the general coordinator of MapBiomas (land cover and land use change monitoring initiative) and the Brazilian Greenhouse Gas Estimation System (SEEG). Forest engineer graduated from ESALQ/USP, he was founder and general director of the Forest and Agricultural Management and Certification Institute (IMAFLORA), Secretary General of the National Forestry Commission and the first General Director of the Brazilian Forest Service. Tasso was one of the architects of the Amazon Fund and Co-Coordinator of the Plan to Prevent and Combat Deforestation in the Amazon (PPCDAM). He is a research associate at the Brazil Lab at Princeton University, an Ashoka Senior Fellow (2021), a Skoll Award Fellow (2022), a Mulago Foundation Henry Arnhold Fellow (2022) and a member of the board and committees of several organizations such as Imaflora, IEMA,
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Managing Principal, Capricorn Investment Group
Ion Yadigaroglu has been Managing Partner at Capricorn Investment Group since 2004, and is an early investor in iconic technology companies including Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, QuantumScape and Saildrone. Capricorn was born from the desire to demonstrate the huge investment potential that resides in breakthrough commercial solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, and as such is one of the original impact investors. Prior to Capricorn, Ion was a Director with Koch Industries, executing a range of acquisitions and investments. Prior to Koch, he was a founder and Chief Executive Officer at Bivio, a software startup in Colorado, and the second employee of Olsen & Associates, a foreign exchange analytics company. Ion was a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University and holds a Masters in Physics from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich in Switzerland and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Stanford University.
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Chair of The Elders, The Elders
Mary Robinson is Adjunct Professor for Climate Justice in Trinity College Dublin and Chair of The Elders. She served as President of Ireland from 1990-1997 and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002. She is a member of the Club of Madrid and the recipient of numerous honours and awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the President of the United States Barack Obama. Between 2013 and 2016 Mary served as the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy in three roles; first for the Great Lakes region of Africa, then on Climate Change leading up to the Paris Agreement and in 2016 as his Special Envoy on El Niño and Climate. Her Foundation, the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, established in 2010, came to a planned end in April 2019.
A former President of the International Commission of Jurists and former chair of the Council of Women World Leaders she was President and founder of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative from 2002-2010 and served as Honorary President of Oxfam International from 2002-2012. She was Chancellor of the University of Dublin from 1998 to 2019.
Mary Robinson serves as Patron of the International Science Council and Patron of the Board of the Institute of Human Rights and Business, is an Ambassador for The B Team, in addition to being a board member of several organisations including the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and the Aurora Foundation. Recently she became joint Honorary President of the Africa Europe Foundation. Mary’s memoir, ‘Everybody Matters’ was published in September 2012 and her book, ‘Climate Justice - Hope, Resilience and the Fight for a Sustainable Future’ was published in September 2018. She is also co-host of a podcast on the climate crisis, called ‘Mothers of Invention’.
