About ENDS Carbon
It's hard to do your best if you don't know how well you're doing. Averting dangerous climate change will require exceptional carbon efficiency gains. To achieve them companies want to answer question like: how are we doing against our peers? What are our strengths and weaknesses? Which carbon management approaches are most effective? Even though many companies have calculated their carbon footprints, they don’t know how well they are doing because carbon foot-prints are often hard to compare. ENDS Carbon aims to make carbon performance visible: working with companies and other partners to create benchmarks and indexes to compare carbon risk and performance.
ENDS Carbon is a leading provider of carbon performance benchmarking and ratings. It grew out of the Carbon Benchmarking Project at Edinburgh University Business School. In 2008, a university spin-out company was created to accelerate the development of carbon benchmarking. In 2009 this received a major investment from Haymarket, the publisher of the ENDS Report, the leading journal for environmental policy and business in the UK. In 2010, ENDS partnered with FTSE and CDP to launch the new FTSE CDP Carbon Strategy Index. ENDS does the analysis and modeling for the index. ENDS Carbon is now a stablemate to the ENDS Report, and retains strong links to Edinburgh University Business School, which continues to provide a home for the ENDS Carbon Research team
The ENDS Carbon Team
Dr. Craig Mackenzie, Technical Director, ENDS Carbon - Craig founded ENDS Carbon and the Carbon Benchmarking Project, and now combines a non-executive advisory role at the company with his role as Head of Sustainability at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, one of the UK’s largest asset managers. Craig is a specialist in sustainable investment and sustainability indexes. He has served on the FTSE4Good Policy Committee since its launch and led the design of the FTSE CDP Carbon Strategy Index. He also helped develop the Business in the Community CR Index; and advised the development of benchmarks for sustainable house-building, biodiversity in the mining sector, responsible supply chain management, and health and safety management. Previously Craig led the sustainable investment teams at Insight Investment and Friends Ivory & Sime. He served on the Technical Advisory Committee for the Global Reporting Initiative. He also plays a role in the University of Edinburgh Business School's Centre for Business and Climate Change.
Neil Johnston, Commercial Director - former Head of Packaging Markets for Pira International, Neil has project managed more than 100 global and European multi-client specialist reports on all aspects of the packaging supply chain including sustainability and environmental packaging, flexible and rigid plastics, chemicals, packaging machinery, PET packaging and others. Neil has created and produced reports for over 500 packaging companies and brand owners including companies such as Amcor, BASF, Coca Cola,DuPont, Alcan, Impress, Crown, Unilever, Cadburys, Mondi, M-Real, Stora Enso, Iggesund, Kraft and Korsnas.
Nigel Haskins, Research Manager - A graduate of Edinburgh University's MSc Carbon Management, Nigel also holds masters degrees in Business Administration (Cranfield) and Zoology (Cambridge). He is alos a chartered accountant with over 20 years business experience. In 1992 he led the project which created the Kibale Forest National Park in western Uganda. Most recently he led the Advisory Services function of the ICAEW, with responsibility for a team providing members and students with complex technical and ethical advice. His earlier career includes spells with a global professional services firm providing audit, accountancy and tax advice; a FTSE listed company as financial controller of two of the three divisions; and one of the worlds largest database and software vendors as an IT systems consultant. He has held directorships of a number of SMEs.
Kajetan Czyz, Research Analyst - Recent graduate of the MSc in Carbon Management course at the University of Edinburgh, which added to his MSc in International Finance from the University of Lodz (Poland). Has knowledge of the financial system both theoretical and practical from work done with the Warsaw Stock Exchange. This has been further developed while holding positions with Royal Bank of Scotland and more recently with Triodos Bank - the Dutch ethical bank. Through a number of assignments has developed strong statistical and financial analysis abilities. While studying at University of Lodz, he launched and spearheaded a student group dealing specifically with fairtrade and microfinance.