CFO to Announce Climate Change Action Plan

Florida Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) Alex Sink is scheduled to speak today, February 14, 2008, at the United Nations as part of a panel of leading institutional investors at an all-day conference entitled “Investor Summit on Climate Risk.”

CFO Sink will join her colleagues in presenting a “Climate Change Investor Action Plan” during a press conference scheduled today at 1:30 p.m.

Additional information about the event and the entirety of the day’s proceedings is available via live Webcast by clicking here.

A press release from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer regarding CFO Sink’s participation in the event is reprinted below.

Should you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact this office.

 

Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink To Announce Climate Change Investor Action Plan On February 14

Investor Action Plan will be announced at the Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the United Nations 

NEW YORK, NY – Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and other leading institutional investors will be announcing a climate change Investor Action Plan at a press conference at 1:30 p.m. ET on February 14, 2008, at the United Nations immediately following CFO Sink’s participation in a panel discussion, Factoring Climate Change into Institutional Investment Strategies.  
 
The press briefing is taking place during an all-day Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the UN, which will include 450 investors, Wall Street executives and CEOs representing over $10 trillion gathering to consider the risks and opportunities from climate change. The summit is a result of growing participation in the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), an initiative organized by Ceres, which now includes more than 60 institutional investors with assets totaling more than $4.5 trillion.
 
Investors speaking at the 1:30 p.m. ET news conference are:
 
•           Denise Nappier, Treasurer, State of Connecticut
•           Alex Sink, Chief Financial Officer, State of Florida
•           John Chiang, Controller, State of California
•           Donald MacDonald, Trustee Director, British Telecom Pension Scheme
•           Mindy S. Lubber, President of Ceres and Director of Investor Network on Climate Risk
 
The press briefing is open to media in Briefing Room 226 at the United Nations.  UN press passes may be requested by contacting Peyton Fleming at Ceres (fleming@ceres.org, 617-247-0700 x20 or 617-733-6660 cell).
 
Media can also listen to the press conference by calling:

National: 1-888-577-8991, passcode: 9672237
International: 1-210 234 0011, passcode: 9672237
 
The Investor Summit will discuss the far-reaching economic impacts of climate change, the responses of a growing number of U.S. and overseas investors, and the vast financial opportunities that energy efficiency and other technologies offer for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and creating economic growth.  

The meeting will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For full agenda visit https://www.incr.com/NETCOMMUNITY/SSLPage.aspx?pid=764. Please contact Peyton Fleming 617-247-0700 x20 or fleming@ceres.org or Patricia Charles 202-536-5798 or patricia@unfoundation.org for more information. You can also read more about the Investor Summit on Climate Risk a www.incr.com/summit.
 
Summit speakers will include:
 
•           John Holdren, climate change expert and professor at Harvard University
•           Diana Farrell, Director of McKinsey Global Institute
•           Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures
•           Peter Darbee, Chairman and CEO of PG&E Corp.
•           Abby Joseph Cohen, Chief Investment Strategist at Goldman Sachs
•           Russell Read, Chief Investment Officer at California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS)
•           Nobuo Tanaka, Executive director of the International Energy Agency
•           John Sweeney, President of AFL-CIO
 
Please contact Peyton Fleming 617-247-0700 x20 or fleming@ceres.org or Patricia Charles 202-536-5798 or patricia@unfoundation.org for more information. You can also read more about the Investor Summit on Climate Risk a www.incr.com/summit. 
  
 
 
About Ceres and INCR:

Ceres is a leading coalition of investors, environmental groups and other public interest organizations working with companies to address sustainability challenges such as climate change. Ceres direct the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a network of 60 institutional investors with collective assets totaling more than $4 trillion. For more information, visit http://www.ceres.org and http://www.incr.com
 
About the United Nations Foundation:

The UN Foundation was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities. The UN Foundation builds and implements public-private partnerships to address the world’s most pressing problems and also works to broaden support for the UN through advocacy and public outreach. The UN Foundation is a public charity. For more information, visit www.unfoundation.org. 
  
  
  
 

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