More Important, Why Is Mark Carney Talking About Climate Change?

Mark Carney is Canadian by birth. He’s also Irish, at least by citizenship. He went to college at Harvard, then joined Goldman Sachs. He worked in the Canadian Department of Finance, eventually becoming the Governor of the Bank of Canada. That’s a pretty good career by itself, but he didn’t stop there.

He’s since jumped the pond and is now the Governor of the Bank of England as well as the President of the G20’s Financial Stability Board.

From all this I presume the guy knows a thing or two about finance and central banks. Which is what makes the topic of his recent speech so interesting.

Mr. Carney took the stage at a Lloyd’s of London event