Team

James Cameron is an executive Vice Chairman of Climate Change Capital of which he was one of the founding members. He is a main board member and represents the firm at the highest levels of business and government.

James is a member of GE's ecomagination board, Pepsico UK's advisory board, chairman of the World Economic Forum's Agenda Council on Climate Change, a trustee member of the UK Green Building Council and of the Carbon Disclosure Project, a member of the Prime Minister's Business Advisory Group and was a member of the Green Investment Bank Commission. He is also a member of the High Level Advisory Committee to the World Congress on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustainability organised by the United Nations Environment Programme.

James is a pre-eminent expert in developing policy responses to climate change. Prior to CCC he was Counsel to Baker & McKenzie and was the founder and the head of their Climate Change and Clean Energy Practice.

James has spent much of his legal career working on climate change matters, including negotiating the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol as an adviser to the Alliance of Small Island States.  He has held academic positions at Cambridge, London, Bruges and Sydney and is currently affiliated with the Yale Centre for Environmental Law and Policy. As a barrister he appeared in several of the leading cases in international and environmental law.

James is also a member of Oxfam's development board, a senior advisor to the Climate Group, chairman of China Dialogue, a member of the development board at the University of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and most recently a member of the High Level International Advisory Committee to the World Congress on Justice, Governance, and Law for Environmental Sustainability.

Rupert Edwards is a Managing Director at Climate Change Capital, where he is Head of Policy and Market Analysis, Carbon Finance. He was formerly head of portfolio management and remains on the investment committee of CCC's €750 million carbon funds.

Prior to CCC Rupert spent 14 years in financial markets at JP Morgan in London, including as Head of European Government Securities Trading.

Rupert has an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, London and an MA in History from Trinity College, Cambridge.

Ben Caldecott is Head of Policy, Advisory at Climate Change Capital. He directs the CCC ThinkTank and advises CCC clients and funds on the development of policy-driven markets. During his time at CCC he has worked on secondment at a senior level in the Strategy Directorate of the UK's Department of Energy & Climate Change and as a Sherpa to the Green Investment Bank Commission.
 
In addition to his role at CCC, Ben is a Trustee of the Green Alliance and a Visiting Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University. He also has a number of other board and advisory level appointments with organisations working on environment policy.
 
Prior to joining CCC, Ben was a Research Director and Head of the Environment & Energy Unit at Policy Exchange, a leading UK based think tank. He has also worked for the United Nations Environment Programme and Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Ben read economics and specialised in development and China at London, Peking and Cambridge universities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, Royal Geographical Society and LEAD International.

Ben is a regular commentator who has authored and edited numerous articles and publications. His media experience includes: Associated Press, BBC News, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC World Service, Bloomberg, Business Week, ENDS, International Herald Tribune, Investors Chronicle, ITV, Metro, Platts, Point Carbon, Press Association, Reuters, Sky News, The Economist, The Evening Standard, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Scotsman, The Telegraph and The Times.

Steven leads the UN regulatory and policy stream and advises CCC's funds on policy and regulatory developments of the international carbon market and broader international climate policy developments.

In relation to CCC's research programme he focuses on financing mechanisms and financial products to support policy incentives. He is active in the discussions around new flexible mechanisms and the evolution of carbon finance under the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) and Kyoto Protocol. Steven leads CCC's finance pieces for the EU Commission's "Global Sectoral Approaches" project with CCAP (Centre for Clean Air Policy), focusing on Mexico and China.  He Chairs the Post 2012 and Institutional Reform working group of the Carbon Markets and Investors Association. He is also involved in the creation of a new platform to facilitate a dialogue between business, decision makers and representatives from the international community around emission trading schemes and broader policies related to climate change.

Prior to joining CCC, he worked on linkages between climate change regulation and development at ODI (Overseas Development Institute). As a qualified Mexican lawyer he has experience in environmental and planning law. He has provided legal advice to international and domestic companies with regard to compliance with environmental legislation and has negotiated with Mexican environmental authorities on behalf of clients. Steven holds a law degree from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and a Master's in Law from the London School of Economics.