Michael Molitor, Director, CarbonShift Ltd


Michael Molitor is the founder of CarbonShift Ltd, an Australian company with a focus on helping companies develop, implement and communicate strategies to respond to the challenge of a climate system modified by human activity. CarbonShift, which is based in Sydney, has partnered with PricewaterhouseCoopers to deliver corporate carbon management strategies that both protect and enhance shareholder value.

Dr. Molitor was responsible for launching Climate Wedge Ltd and the Cheyne Climate Wedge Fund, the world’s first voluntary carbon fund. Prior to his entrepreneurial activities, he served as ‘Senior Advisor on Climate Change’ at McKinsey & Company and between 2000-2003 was the global leader of ‘Climate Change Services’ at PricewaterhouseCoopers based in London. In these roles his primary activities were in assessing the risk and opportunities presented by climate change to corporate performance, with particular emphasis on the cost of carbon emissions abatement.

Before entering the business world, Michael was a leading earth systems academic for 17 years. Dr. Molitor was a member of the faculty at the University of California, San Diego and the Climate Research Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. In this capacity he served as an external advisor to BP on the development of the company’s climate change strategy and attended all of the United Nations negotiations on climate change.

Dr Molitor earned his PhD from Cambridge University, England and was a Ford Foundation post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. He has also held academic appointments at Stanford University, Carleton College and Columbia University. He served as Science Advisor on the film, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs in the US, UK, Germany, Canada and Australia. He recently completed work as the Climate Change Advisor to the LIVE EARTH concert in Sydney, Australia.

Dr. Molitor, a citizen of France and the United States, resides in Sydney, Australia as a permanent resident.