Clmt Bnds Adv Panel recruits: CPI's Barbara Buchner, BofML's Abyd Karmali, Wolfgang Mostert (Venice, London, Copenhagen)

We welcome three new members of Climate Bonds Advisory Panel:

Abyd Karmali, a Managing Director and Global Head of Carbon Markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He serves on Bank of America’s Environmental Council and has worked for two decades on climate change and the carbon markets. He is also President of the Carbon Markets & Investors Association and Chairman of Just Energy, a new Oxfam initiative focused on access to energy.

Dr Barbara Buchner, a Director at the Climate Policy Initiative, Venice. CPI supports policymakers to achieve low carbon growth. Until 2009, Barbara was Senior Energy and Environment Analyst at the International Energy Agency. She is also VP of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and on the Mitigation Board of the Global Network for Climate Solutions.

Wolfgang Mostert, an independent consultant in developing finance frameworks for energy and environment. He has developed solutions and instruments in multiple countries on five continents; and is the author of dozens of reports, including “Publicly-backed Guarantees as Instruments for Promoting Clean Energy” for UNEP-SEFI and “Financing Renewable Energy: Instruments, Strategies, Practice Approaches” for KfW. He was formerly a senior economist at the World Bank and a management consultant for PA Consulting.