By Pip Wheaton on March 30, 2021
Pip Wheaton

Pip Wheaton

Pip is the Country Director of Ashoka in the UK. Australian by birth, she has spent the majority of her career in South Africa. Prior to moving to the UK, Pip founded a youth development organisation in South Africa, enke: Make Your Mark. In early 2015, after six years as enke’s CEO, she handed over the reigns to study an MBA at Saïd Business School, Oxford. In addition, she has also consulted on innovative finance at the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship; mapped the entrepreneurial support landscape across Africa for the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trading; and facilitated strategy development. For her work in social innovation she’s been awarded a Skoll Scholarship, an Ashoka Fellowship; and she was a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. She currently still serves on the board of enke as a non-executive director.

We’re Living Through A Carbon Bubble—Here’s What We Can Do About It

Source: Ashoka

As part of Ashoka’s Welcome Change series, Pip Wheaton spoke with Ashoka Fellow Mark Campanale (U.K.) about how climate change impacts financial markets, and how investors can support a sustainable future.

Mark started the Carbon Tracker Initiative in 2009 that ended up placing terms like “carbon bubble”, “unburnable carbon” and “stranded assets” into the financial and environmental lexicon. More recently, he founded Planet Tracker that focuses on agriculture, seafood, forestry, water and textiles. Mark worked for 25 years for major asset management companies, and co-founded some of the UK's first responsible investment funds in late 1980s. 

Read highlights from this conversation on Forbes.com

 

Financial services / markets Green business Green consumption Social Entrepreneurship