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Ep50: Lord John Browne 'Beyond Net Zero'
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Michael Liebreich: Before we start, if you're enjoying these conversations, please make sure that you like or subscribe to Cleaning Up, it really helps other people to find us. Cleaning Up is brought to you by the Liebreich Foundation and the Gilardini Foundation. Hello, I'm Michael Liebreich, and this is Cleaning Up. My guest today is Lord Browne of Madingley, John Browne. He was CEO of BP between 1995 and 2007 and he's now the senior adviser to General Atlantic on climate change, and net zero. Let's bring Lord Browne into the conversation. So, Lord Browne, John, welcome to Cleaning Up.
John Browne: Thank you very much. It's good to be with you.
ML: It's wonderful to see you, and where whereabouts are you? And how have you been spending the last 18 months or so during the pandemic?
JB: So, I'm in my house in Chelsea, London, I'm actually sitting in the mews house, which is my office on top of a library that I have here. And I've been here pretty well all in all for 18 months. Actually, this is a genuine setting. It's not an artificial background. And it has authenticity. And so everyone's seen it for 18 months, I have occasionally been out.
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Lord John Browne of Madingley
John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, serves as Chairman of Climate & Sustainability investing and is a Managing Director at General Atlantic.
Lord Browne of Madingley serves as Chairman of Climate & Sustainability investing and is a Managing Director at General Atlantic, providing strategic support and advice to the firm’s investment teams and portfolio companies. He advises the firm on environmental, social and governance considerations, with a particular focus on climate solutions and the path to Net Zero emissions. Lord Browne co-founded BeyondNetZero, General Atlantic’s climate growth equity fund focused on supporting and scaling high-growth companies that are developing innovative solutions seeking to meet and exceed net zero emissions targets.
Lord Browne served as Group Chief Executive of international energy company BP from 1995 to 2007, after having joined the company in 1966 as a university apprentice. He led the company through a period of significant growth and transformation, including BP’s merger with Amoco in 1998. His landmark speech at Stanford University in 1997 established BP as a global leader in the way it thought about and sought to address climate change.
In 2007, Lord Browne joined Riverstone, where he