Established in 2003, Climate Change Capital is a private investment manager that invests in carbon

Carbon

Carbon is the chemical element with symbol C and atomic number 6. As a member of group 14 on the periodic table, it is nonmetallic and tetravalent—making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds...

 finance

Finance

"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...

 projects in developing countries, Cleantech companies headquartered in Europe and renewable energy

Renewable energy

Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...

 projects and commercial green buildings  in the United Kingdom.

As of December 2010, Climate Change Capital manages $1.5 billion of capital commitments.

Senior Management

Climate Change Capital’s Chairman is Vivienne Cox, the former CEO and Executive Vice President of BP

BP

BP p.l.c. is a global oil and gas company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest company in the world measured by revenues and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors"...

 Alternative Energy and a former member of the BP Executive Management Team.

Climate Change Capital’s Vice Chairman is James Cameron, a member of General Electric's

General Electric

General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...

 ecomagination board, Pepsico

PepsiCo

PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company...

 UK's advisory board, chairman of the World Economic Forum

World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....

 Agenda Council on Climate Change

Climate change

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...

, a trustee member of the UK Green Building Council

UK Green Building Council

The UK Green Building Council is a United Kingdom membership organisation, formed in 2007, which aims to 'radically transform' the way that the built environment in the UK is planned, designed, constructed, maintained and operated....

 and the Carbon Disclosure Project

Carbon Disclosure Project

The Carbon Disclosure Project is an organisation based in the United Kingdom which works with shareholders and corporations to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions of major corporations....

, a member of the UK Prime Minister's Business Advisory Group and a member of the Green Investment Bank

Green Investment Bank

Green Investment Bank is a funding scheme initiated in 2010 by the British government and assigned the task of attracting private funds for the financing of the British private sector's investments related to environmental preservation and improvement....

 Commission.

Advisory

Climate Change Capital’s advisory business provides corporate finance

Corporate finance

Corporate finance is the area of finance dealing with monetary decisions that business enterprises make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions. The primary goal of corporate finance is to maximize shareholder value while managing the firm's financial risks...

, project finance

Project finance

Project finance is the long term financing of infrastructure and industrial projects based upon the projected cash flows of the project rather than the balance sheets of the project sponsors...

, M&A and strategic advice for energy and energy intensive companies, financial institutions, governments and solution providers in the areas of clean fuels, clean

Clean

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 power

Electric power

Electric power is the rate at which electric energy is transferred by an electric circuit. The SI unit of power is the watt.-Circuits:Electric power, like mechanical power, is represented by the letter P in electrical equations...

, Cleantech and carbon finance

Carbon finance

Carbon finance is a new branch of Environmental finance. Carbon finance explores the financial implications of living in a carbon-constrained world, a world in which emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases carry a price....

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Carbon Finance

In 2006, Climate Change Capital raised the world’s largest private sector carbon fund to finance projects in the developing world via the Kyoto Protocol

Kyoto Protocol

The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , aimed at fighting global warming...

's Clean Development Mechanism

Clean Development Mechanism

The Clean Development Mechanism is one of the "flexibility" mechanisms defined in the Kyoto Protocol . It is defined in Article 12 of the Protocol, and is intended to meet two objectives: to assist parties not included in Annex I in achieving sustainable development and in contributing to the...

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Green Buildings

In 2009, Climate Change Capital’s property team was the first to raise a fund to specifically invest in UK commercial property with an emphasis on improving the sustainability credentials of buildings with the aim of reducing their operating costs and increasing their market value. The Climate Change Property Fund has a gross asset value in excess of £150 million.

Cleantech

Climate Change Capital’s €200 million Private Equity Fund is one of the largest Cleantech funds in Europe which invests expansion capital in high growth, later stage companies and buy outs in the areas of clean power, clean transport, energy efficiency, waste recovery and water.

ThinkTank

Climate Change Capital runs its own policy think tank that conducts research into the policies needed to deploy capital into the solutions to climate change and the protection of the natural world. Its stated aim is to help policy makers develop the most effective and efficient policies for the rapid global transition to a low carbon economy.

External links

• Climate Change Capital (Company Website)
• CCC ThinkTank (Company policy research centre)