Cary Krosinsky is vice president for Trucost. Trucost has built the world's most extensive time series database of over 700 emissions and pollutants as are generated by more than 4,500 public companies around the world, and uses this data to help portfolio managers understand their environmental footprints, helping lower them while maintaining and enhancing financial performance.

Cary Krosinsky is vice president for Trucost. Trucost has built the world's most extensive time series database of over 700 emissions and pollutants as are generated by more than 4,500 public companies around the world, and uses this data to help portfolio managers understand their environmental footprints, helping lower them while maintaining and enhancing financial performance. Trucost also provides environmental supply chain assessment services for corporates, and carbon subadvisory services to UBS, Merrill Lynch and others as it involves minimizing carbon exposure and other environmental liabilities of funds under management. The recently issued NYSE Euronext ETF, Low Carbon 100 Europe, has attracted over $50 million in assets under management.

Cary is also co-editor of the just released book "Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long Term Performance," with Nick Robins, HSBC's Head of Climate Change, which also contains contributions from leading contemporary thinkers such as Abyd Karmali, Valery Lucas-Leclin and Steve Viederman. Cary was a member of the 70 person Expert Group in 2005 that created the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) of the United Nations, which has since been committed to by more than $15 trillion worth of fund managers and asset owners, and he continues to participate in various UN initiatives. He worked in collaboration with Trucost on their award winning 2006 UK Trust Carbon Footprint study, as well as the IFC sponsored Carbon Counts Asia 2007 report, the latter having been issued at the December 2007 UN meetings in Bali. And he worked with the Los Angeles Times on stories regarding Warren Buffett, and has written and spoken publicly over time on issues including the union of the environment and institutional ownership on CNBC, in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere globally.

In fall 2009, Cary begins teaching a course on sustainability and investing at Columbia University.