Green Korea: Financing and Legal Aspects of the Green Climate Fund

Details: Thursday, January 23 , 2014 | 5:30 PM

About the Speaker Title: Green Korea: Financing and Legal Aspects of the Green Climate Fund
About the Speaker: 2014-01-23 17:30:00
Event Name: $10 Members | $20 Guests
Event Time: ../tickets/2014/2014_01_23__GreenKorea__ticket.html
Event Link: Joining JPMorgan Chase in 2005, Granville Martin is based in New York City to manage environmental risk, develop new business with a nexus to environmental protection, and analyse energy and environmental policy trends that have an impact on JPMC clients and businesses.  Granville leads JPMC’s environmental due diligence effort on the oil/gas industry with a particular focus on clients engaged in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.  In addition, he works across JPMC’s lines of business to leverage regulatory and political drivers towards greater energy efficiency and distributed generation in the built environment.  Granville also closely tracks and analyses energy and environmental policy and political trends with an impact on JPMC clients and businesses.     After graduating law school in 1996, Granville joined the Office of the Counsel to Governor George Pataki of New York working on environmental issues such as wastewater treatment, New York City watershed protection and green buildings.  He also worked on local government and mental health issues including negotiating with the Legislature.  After leaving the Pataki Administration, Granville represented the Financial Services Forum prior to joining JP Morgan Chase in 2005.  Granville earned a B.A. from Boston University and a J.D. from University of San Francisco and is admitted to the bar in New York and California.  He is married with two children and lives in Stamford, CT after three years in Washington D.C.        Jon D. Sohn is an experienced climate change, energy  and natural resources public policy leader.  He advises a range of clients on energy, climate change and sustainability matters with respect to corporate sustainability strategy, regulation and permitting under the Clean Air Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, and public policy engagement on emerging sustainability issues with Congress and the Executive Branch.  His clients include shale gas production companies, renewable energy independent power producers, foreign governments, emerging clean tech companies and financial institutions.  He has firsthand experience preparing U.S. domestic and international environmental policy and regulations backed by advocacy and testimony before the United States Congress and Executive Branch.  He represents clients before the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency,  the Department of Energy and the Department of Interior on a broad range of regulatory and policy matters. Prior to joining McKenna Long & Aldridge, Mr. Sohn worked at Climate Change Capital LLC where helped develop their global environmental and social risk management policy and advised their investment funds on carbon markets and clean energy policy.  Mr. Sohn previously worked at the World Resources Institute, working with commercial banks and public financial institutions such as the International Finance Corporation on environmental and social risks and opportunities in the oil, gas and mining sectors.
Custom HTML field content: About the Speakers
Third Tab: http://traffic.libsyn.com/koreasociety/2014-01-24_GreenKoreaFinancingAndLegalAspectsOfGCF.mp3

2014 01 23 GreenKorea icon1

Examine the growth of Green Korea through financing and legal aspects of the new Green Climate Fund. headquartered in Incheon; the UN-mandated GCF aims to mitigate the urgent and serious challenge of climate change. Granville Martin, head of JP Morgan's Office of Environmental Affairs, explores green climate financing and the GCF's evolution. John Sohn of McKenna Long and Aldridge speaks to the development of the GCF's legal structures and the ins and outs for new participants.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

$10 Members, $20 Guests

Explorers and Young Professionals' Network Member tickets are free but registration required here.

5:00 PM | Registration

5:30 PM | Discussion

Of Interest: Korea and the Green Climate Fund