About this presentation

related to ATMOsphere America 2013
published on 17 June 2013
10 pages
3 MB

Amy Larkin, author of Environmental debt - The Hidden Cost Of A Changing Global Economy, spoke about the relationship between environmental destruction and business. She emphasised that damaging the environment will have real monetary costs in the future for people, businesses and/or governement. 

About the speaker(s)

Amy Larkin

 

Amy Larkin is the author of Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy, Palgrave MacMillan, June 2013. In the book, she connects the environmental and financial crises -- both causes and solutions. Amy is an award-winning entrepreneur and environmental activist who has launched cultural institutions, co-founded one of the first affinity-marketing businesses, and was involved with Greenpeace for 30 years -- as a Board member, advisor, and from 2005 -– 2011, Director of Greenpeace Solutions.

Greenpeace Solutions worked with Refrigerants, Naturally! for many years and in 2010, collaborated with the Consumer Goods Forum, a consortium of 400 companies, to eliminate HFCs from all new equipment starting in 2015. This industry transformation can eliminate over 1 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions over the next 30 years. Greenpeace’s work with Refrigerants, Naturally! won the prestigious 2011 Roy Award from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government for public/private partnerships that protect natural resources.

Through her consulting business, she has recently worked with the Agricultural Sustainability Institute of UC/Davis, Greenpeace International, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and the Consumer Goods Forum. Amy currently serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board of BiomimicryNYC and is also the Chair of the Board of the ARChive of Contemporary Music, the largest collection of contemporary music in the world.