The ClimateCare team has been a part of J.P. Morgan's Environmental Markets group since April 2008. Our innovative origination team provides advice and support to companies and project developers in emerging markets to create emissions reduction credits from projects that successfully reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The team has considerable experience and knowledge in developing and executing projects in many sectors including renewable energy, municipal waste management, industrial gases, energy efficiency and forestry.
J.P. Morgan's sales team is dedicated to meeting the needs and requirements of clients by providing environmental products and advisory services that address regulatory and emissions trading compliance risk, which is now being selectively extended into the voluntary market.
The ClimateCare team has dedicated experts based in London, Mauritius, Nairobi, New York, Oxford, Sydney, Santiago and Ankara.
You can Contact Us as normal using our main Oxford numbers.
Biographies
Edward Hanrahan, Executive Director and Head of Global Sales
Formerly Chief Operating Officer of ClimateCare, Edward is now an Executive Director within J.P. Morgan Environmental Markets. As well as working with compliance market clients, Edward has specific responsibility for J.P. Morgan’s presence in the voluntary markets and ClimateCare in particular. He was one of the two founding architects of ICROA – the International Carbon Offset Reduction Alliance – and is an active participant in the development of the voluntary carbon markets within international climate change mitigation frameworks.
Prior to joining ClimateCare, Edward had a career starting and developing international start ups and fast growth businesses in the online space, as a senior executive for brands such as BA, Microsoft and Expedia.
Odin Knudsen, Strategic Advisor, Business Development and Global Head of Origination
Based in Washington DC, Odin is responsible for global business development and origination of carbon assets for Environmental Markets. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 2007, Odin spent 27 years at the World Bank where, among other things, he was head of the World Bank Carbon Fund and a senior adviser in sustainable development. He gave policy and project advice to governments in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, managing carbon funds of $1.8 billion and active projects of $1.2 billion. As such, he brings valuable experience in emerging markets and financial markets including expertise in trade, rural and agricultural policy, natural resource management and project evaluation.
Mike Mason, Managing Director - Innovation
Mike founded Climate Care in 1997 pre-Kyoto and since then the company has become a market leader in the origination, development and retail of voluntary and compliance carbon offsets, pioneering methodologies and project standards in a number of areas and supplying everyone from consumers to some of the world’s largest brands. Mike also founded Biojoule, previously Climate Care’s sister company developing radically new biomass technologies.
Tom Morton, Executive Director
Tom, formerly Managing Director of Climate Care, now works on the origination team, based in Kenya, with a global remit to originate and develop emission reduction projects – both voluntary market and CDM. He has been a major player in building the market for high quality, credible offsets in the UK. Now based in Nairobi, Tom joined Climate Care in 2000 following a Master's degree from the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University, and has 6 years experience of developing and managing carbon reduction projects.
Contact us for additional information
Email: environmental.markets@jpmorgan.com
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Please note that whilst we do have carbon calculators, we do not offer full carbon footprinting services.