Grant Harrison
As Vice President, Sustainable Finance & ESG, Grant leads on program development for GreenFin – the premier sustainable finance and investing event aligning the sustainability, investment and finance communities. Grant works to direct the vigor of capital markets toward the realization of a clean and just economy, and to make GreenFin the launchpad of the ideas, insights and connections that will shift capital allocation to support sustainability. Grant previously served as Senior Account Executive with Trellis, working with clients across financial services, transportation, tech and consulting. Prior to joining Trellis, Grant worked under the auspices of the USDA implementing reforestation projects in fire-affected regions of Northern California. Grant holds a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in Environmental Governance from Oxford University. He is animated by a healthy diet of existential anxiety and an enduring faith in humans’ ability to solve problems together. Grant loves, more than most things, to surf.
Sustainable investors more likely to engage on climate policy, MIT Sloan analysis suggests
MIT Sloan School of Management working paper challenges the idea that sustainable investing detracts from work on climate policy. Read More
The power of clean energy tax credits: A 10-year, $1 trillion opportunity
Under the Inflation Reduction Act, sustainability professionals can tap into tax credits to boost sustainability budgets. Read More
Why COP28 is a pivotal moment for climate finance
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How the financial sector can make 'nature markets' work
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What it takes to pop the ESG job bubble
Headlines abound around the growth of ESG jobs. Why does it seem so hard to get one? Read More
Chair Günther Thallinger: The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance makes its climate impact ‘step by step’
The leader of the financial industry’s biggest effort to advance decarbonization addresses its rapid growth and recent controversial oil and gas position. Read More
COP28 will be a make-or-break moment for climate finance
One thing the finance community really needs to stimulate $100 billion in annual commitments: a better definition for what qualifies as climate projects. Read More
The biodiversity investment thesis is still ill-defined
Investors are chasing biodiversity and nature funds, but the outcomes of those investments remain unclear. Read More
Inside Fidelity International’s fund to invest in biodiversity
The head of Fidelity International’s portfolio of climate and biodiversity funds, Velislava Dimitrova, addresses the rise of nature-related investments. Read More
