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Hugues Chenet
Co-founder 2° Investing Initiative
2° Investing Initiative
Private Sector & Development author
Hugues Chenet is the co-founder of the 2° Investing Initiative and its Scientific Director. He has a doctorate in geophysics and worked in the academic world for seven years before joining OTC Conseil in 2007, where he developed this consultancy's environmental risk practice and led the sustainable development team focused on the financial sector.
2° Investing Initiative
2° Investing Initiative, founded in Paris in 2012, is a multi-stakeholder think tank which conducts research and seeks to stimulate change, aligning financial institutions' investment processes with 2°C climate scenarios. It develops metrics and tools to measure the climate performance of financial institutions and promotes the development of a regulatory framework to incentivise the re-focusing of investments on a low-carbon economy.