New Mexico State Treasurer Tim Eichenberg is one of the conveners of the 2018 Investor Summit on Climate Risk: Capturing the Investment Opportunities of the Paris Agreement, to be held on January 31, 2018, at the United Nations in New York City. The summit is co-hosted by Ceres, the United Nations Foundation, and the United Nations Office for Partnerships. Ceres is an organization that works to advance sustainability leadership among investors, companies, and capital market influencers to drive solutions and take stronger action on the world’s biggest sustainability challenges, including climate change, water scarcity and pollution, and human rights abuses.
The 2018 summit’s purpose is to highlight growing climate-related investment risks and opportunities, and to accelerate global investor, business, and policy action on climate change needed to align global investment with the market opportunities created by the Paris Agreement. The high-level, invitation-only summit, which has been held every two years at the United Nations since 2003, will convene more than 500 investor, business, and capital market leaders.
In addition to Treasurer Eichenberg, the 21 summit conveners include these state and municipal leaders:
- California State Treasurer John Chiang
- California State Controller Betty Yee
- California Public Employees’ Retirement System CEO Marcie Frost
- California State Teachers’ Retirement System CEO Jack Ehnes
- Connecticut State Treasurer Denise Nappier
- Iowa State Treasurer Michael L. Fitzgerald
- Maryland State Treasurer Nancy K. Kopp
- Massachusetts State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg
- New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer
- New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli
- Oregon State Treasurer Tobias Read
- Rhode Island General Treasurer Seth Magaziner
- Vermont State Treasurer Elizabeth Pearce
Other conveners are: Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; Emily Chew, Chair, Asia Investor Group on Climate Change; Peter Damgaard Jensen, Chair, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change; Frank Pegan, Chair, Investor Group on Climate Change; Mary Kay Henry, President, Service Employees International Union; Richard L. Trumka, President, AFL-CIO; Michael Sabia, President and CEO, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.