Jim Walker

Chief Operating Officer

Jim helped to set up The Climate Group in late 2003 and is responsible for managing the Group’s operations, fund raising and research. He has worked for six years as a consultant on public and private sector responses to environmental and social challenges. With Steve Howard he has advised WWF International on the development of the Clean Development Mechanism Gold Standard and produced the business plan for The Climate Group on behalf of Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Jim was lead author of the Mining Minerals & Sustainable Development report Finding the Way Forward on industry voluntary initiatives, and a contributor to the WWF-UK report To Whose Profit? on the business case for sustainability. He has produced stakeholder engagement reports for BP Scotland and Nirex and has developed approaches for assessing corporate exposure to climate change-related risk. Prior to his environmental career Jim was a professional athlete, competing in the British Rowing Team at the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games and at six World Championships. He holds a Bachelors degree in Biology and a Masters degree in Environmental Technology, both from Imperial College London.