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'''Renat Heuberger''' (born 18 December 1976) is the CEO and co-founder and Senior Adviser of [[South Pole Group|South Pole]], a globalcarbon companyfinance specialisingconsultancy. inHe sustainabilitywas CEO until resigning on 10 November, solutions2023. He has been engaged as a [[Social entrepreneurship|social entrepreneur]] in the fields of sustainability, [[climate change]] and renewable energies since 1999.▼
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▲'''Renat Heuberger''' (born 18 December 1976) is the CEO and co-founder of [[South Pole Group|South Pole]], a global company specialising in sustainability solutions. He has been engaged as a [[Social entrepreneurship|social entrepreneur]] in the fields of sustainability, [[climate change]] and renewable energies since 1999.
 
Prior toBefore founding South Pole, Heuberger co-founded and acted as the CEO of the [[myclimate]] foundation, one of the world’s first players in the voluntary carbon market space. Supporting a global network of connected communities, Heuberger is considered an authority on climate change, carbon markets and sustainable development and is regularly interviewed in the media.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/trump-inner-car-salesman-davos-speech|title=Trump Unleashes Inner Car Salesman on Davos Elite|last=Levin|first=Bess|work=The Hive|access-date=2018-06-06|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.argusmedia.com/pages/NewsBody.aspx?id=793297&menu=yes|title=News Story - Argus Media|website=www.argusmedia.com|access-date=2018-06-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.greenbiz.com/article/rise-results-based-climate-finance|title=The rise of results-based climate finance|last=Nikolova|first=Anja|date=2016-07-20|work=GreenBiz|access-date=2018-06-06|language=en}}</ref>
 
Heuberger holds a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences from the [[Swiss Federal Institute of Technology]] and completed the Social Entrepreneur Programme, ISEP, at [[INSEAD]] and Executive Education at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).▼
 
▲Heuberger holds a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences from the [[Swiss Federal Institute of Technology]] and completed the Social Entrepreneur Programme, ISEP, at [[INSEAD]] and Executive Education at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).
 
==Professional life==
After working for development organisation [[Swisscontact]] in Indonesia, Heuberger co-founded the World Student Community on Sustainable Development,<ref>[http://wscsd.org World Student Community for Sustainable Development | WSCSD<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> as well as the platform for interdisciplinary projects Seed Sustainability.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.seed.ethz.ch/ |title=ETH Seed Sustainability<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2020-05-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206033735/http://www.seed.ethz.ch/ |archive-date=2015-02-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2002, he founded<ref>[http://www.weforum.org/contributors/renat-heuberger Renat Heuberger | World Economic Forum - Renat Heuberger<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> the Swiss [[myclimate]] foundation, a non-profit climate protection organisation that was inspired by a successful initiative to compensate the [[greenhouse gas emissions|greenhouse emissions]] of flights of attendees at the annual meeting of the Alliance for Global Sustainability<ref>[http://www.ags.ethz.ch/ ETH -– AGS -– Welcome<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> in Costa Rica. Heuberger acted as myclimatemy-climate's CEO until 2006.
 
Since founding myclimate in 2002, Heuberger has been an active climate policy and carbon markets advocate. He has also supported the [[United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change|UNFCCC]] process for over a decade, regularly chairing and presenting at official side events on topics such as "Sustainable CDM - Best Practice" at [[2005 United Nations Climate Change Conference|CoP 11]]/MoP 1 of the UNFCCC in [[Montreal]]<ref>[http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2005/cop11/eng/od02.pdf Daily Programme] unfccc.int</ref> and "What has carbon trade taught us about ecological markets?" at CoP 16/MoP 6 of the UNFCCC [[2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference|Cancun Summit]].<ref>[http://www.iisd.ca/climate/cop16/enbots/10dece.html IISD RS @ Cancún Climate Change Conference - Side Events, 29 November - 10 December 2010, Cancún, Mexico<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Heuberger presented his Shifting Fortunes insight at the 2013 [[WEF]] in [[Davos]].<ref>[http://www.weforum.org/sessions/summary/shifting-fortunes-towards-new-climate-framework Shifting Fortunes: Towards a New Climate Framework? | World Economic Forum - Shifting Fortunes: Towards a New Climate Framework?<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
==Awards and recognition==
As a founding partner and CEO of [http://www.southpole.com/ South Pole], Heuberger coordinated the set-up of the company's global presence, winning the companywon the title of Best Project Developer in a peer-voted industry ranking by Environmental Finance between 2011-17<ref>[{{Cite web|url=http://www.cdmgoldstandard.org/carbon-offsetting-and-the-social-entrepreneur |title=Carbon offsetting and the social entrepreneur |&#124; GSF<!-- Bot generated title -->]|accessdate=6 January 2024}}</ref> and enabling the first-ever issuance of [[CDM Gold Standard|Gold Standard]] certificates, the first issuance of [https://www.socialcarbon.org/ SOCIALCARBON]-certified [[Carboncarbon credit|carbon credits]]s in Southeast Asia <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/pages/dynamic/article.page.php?page_id=4852&section=home&eod=1 |title=Ecosystem Marketplace - South Pole Carbon Asset Management<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2013-02-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150519212433/http://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/pages/dynamic/article.page.php?page_id=4852&section=home&eod=1 |archive-date=2015-05-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and, with his colleague Christian Dannecker, the first [[Voluntary Carbon Standard]] forestry project in South America.<ref>[http://www.thesouthpolegroup.com/projects/planting-native-tree-species? Planting native tree species] thesouthpolegroup.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}</ref><ref>[https://www.southpolecarbon.com/_downloads/PR110316_Asorpar.pdf Asorpar] southpolecarbon.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}</ref>
 
Heuberger has also initiated with colleague Maximilian Horster the first climate credit card in Switzerland<ref>http://www.climatecreditcard.ch/_downloads/CCCb_PR_final_EN.pdf</ref> and the first carbon screener application on the [[Bloomberg Terminal]] that allows investors and asset managers to calculate the carbon footprint of every investable company around the world.<ref>[http://docsfiles.com/pdf_bloomberg_app_portal.html Bloomberg App Portal PDF And Ebook Files - DocsFiles<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The investment carbon footprinting business was successfully incubated and later sold to a large financial industry player, [[Institutional Shareholder Services|ISS]], in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.southpole.com/news/south-pole-group-completes-incubation-cycle-and-sells|title=South Pole Group completes incubation cycle and sells investment climate data advisory unit to ISS|website=South Pole Group|access-date=2018-06-06}}</ref>▼
 
▲Heuberger has also initiated with colleague Maximilian Horster the first climate credit card in Switzerland<ref>[http://www.climatecreditcard.ch/_downloads/CCCb_PR_final_EN.pdf Report] climatecreditcard.ch {{dead link|date=January 2024}}</ref> and the first carbon screener application on the [[Bloomberg Terminal]] that allows investors and asset managers to calculate the carbon footprint of every investable company around the world.<ref>[{{Cite web|url=http://docsfiles.com/pdf_bloomberg_app_portal.html|title=None|accessdate=6 BloombergJanuary App Portal PDF And Ebook Files - DocsFiles<!-- Bot generated title -->]2024}}</ref> The investment carbon footprinting business was successfully incubated and later sold to a large financial industry player, [[Institutional Shareholder Services|ISS]], in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.southpole.com/news/south-pole-group-completes-incubation-cycle-and-sells|title=South Pole Group completes incubation cycle and sells investment climate data advisory unit to ISS|website=South Pole Group|access-date=2018-06-06}}</ref>
Heuberger has been central in helping South Pole grow into a thriving organisation of over 350 employees, with the vision of mobilising finance at scale to achieve the [[Sustainable Development Goals|Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)]] as well as the ambitious targets of the [[Paris Agreement]] to [[climate change mitigation|combat climate change]]. South Pole has become a well-known advisor to governments, businesses and capital markets on climate policy, sustainable supply chains and climate risks and opportunities.
 
==Positions of trust==
Heuberger was elected Swiss Social Entrepreneur 2011 by the [[World Economic Forum]]’s [[Schwab Foundation]], along with [[Christoph Sutter]],<ref>[http://www.weforum.org/news/christoph-sutter-and-renat-heuberger-awarded-swiss-social-entrepreneurs-year-2011 Christoph Sutter and Renat Heuberger awarded as Swiss Social Entrepreneurs of the Year 2011 | World Economic Forum - Christoph Sutter and Renat Heuberger awarded as Swiss Soci...<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319182422/http://www.weforum.org/news/christoph-sutter-and-renat-heuberger-awarded-swiss-social-entrepreneurs-year-2011 |date=2013-03-19 }}</ref> and received the sustainability award in 2013 by the [[Zurich Cantonal Bank|Zurich Cantonal Bank (ZKB)]].<ref>[{{Cite web|url=http://www.zkb.ch/de/center_worlds/ueber_uns/nachhaltigkeit/produkte/services/kmu_preis/gewinner.html |title=ZKB - KMU-Preis<!-- Bot generated title -->]|accessdate=6 January 2024}}</ref> In 2014, Heuberger was elected as Member of the Global Agenda Council on Climate Change of the World Economic Forum.
 
Heuberger currently serves as a board member of [https://www.climate-kic.org/ Climate-KIC], Europe's largest public-private innovation partnership on climate change and is a member of the Innovation Council of [<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.innosuisse.ch/inno/en/home.html|title = Innosuisse is the Swiss Innovation Agency}}</ref> InnoSuisse], the Swiss Innovation Agency. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the [https://zurich.impacthub.ch/ Impact Hub Zurich],<ref>[{{Cite web|url=http://zurich.the-hub.net/about/advisory-board |title=The HUB Zürich &#124;|]accessdate=6 January 2024}}</ref> a platform for social entrepreneurship, and a member of the [https://www.weforum.org/communities/expert-network Expert Network] of the World Economic Forum.
 
==Bibliography==
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*Heuberger R: “Transparenz im Strommarkt – wie kann die Marktliberalisierung zur Energiewende beitragen?” aus Tobias Reichmuth (Hrsg.) 2014: die Finanzierung der Energiewende in der Schweiz. Bestandsaufnahme, Massnahmen, Investitionsmöglichkeiten. [[NZZ Libro]]: Zürich, S. 69 f., 2014
*Heuberger R.: 'Der globale CO2-Handel nach der Klimakonferenz in Cancun, Umweltrecht in der Praxis' URP 2010 365, S. 821 f., 2010
*Heuberger Renat, Brent Alan, Santos, Luis, Sutter Christoph, Imboden Dieter, "CDM Projects under the [[Kyoto Protocol]]: A Methodology for Sustainability Assessment – Experiences from South Africa and Uruguay", "Environment, development and sustainability : a multidisciplinary approach to the theory and practice of sustainable development", Springer, <tt>{{mono|[[doi:10.1007/s10668-005-9002-7]]</tt>}}, 2007.
*Heuberger R, Thomas F, "Quality standards for micro-climate protection projects""Qualitäts-Standards für Mikro-Klimaschutz-Projekte", Umwelt-Fokus, 2004.
*Renat Heuberger, Alan Brent, Luis Santos, Christoph Sutter, Dieter Imboden, "Evaluating projects that are potentially eligible for [[Clean Development Mechanism]] (CDM) funding in the [[South Africa]]n context: A case study to establish weighting values for sustainable development criteria", ETH, <tt>{{mono|[[doi:10.3929/ethz-a-004498711]]</tt>}}, 2003.
 
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