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Steve Howard
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Chief Executive Officer
The Climate Group
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Biography
Steve is the CEO of The Climate Group which he co-founded in late 2003. He is also a founding member of HSBC's Carbon Management Task Force. Prior to his role with The Climate Group, Steve was a Partner in ERM where he led the work on Corporate Social Responsibility for clients as diverse as Kingfisher and ABN Amro and on climate change related projects for a range of organisations including EDF Energy, BP, WWF and The World Bank. Previously he was the founding Director of the Global Forest and Trade Network for WWF International, where he led an international team involved in advising 700 companies on forest and supply chain issues. He was also Chairman of the UK Forest Stewardship Council where he helped achieve a far-reaching consensus on a national forest certification standard. Steve was founding Chairman of the Tropical Forest Trust from 1999 to 2004, which he helped establish to respond to the need for ethically sourced tropical timber. He has a first class honours degree in ecology and a PhD in environmental physics based on work as a Senior Fellow at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry in Kenya. Over the course of his career Steve has worked in more than thirty countries. In December 2005 he was named by Scientific American magazine as a Policy Leader within the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 50 – the magazine’s prestigious annual list recognising outstanding acts of leadership in science and technology from the last year.
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