Anton Cartwright
Designation: Founder of PACE (NPO), Researcher at Credible Carbon and African Centre for Cities
Expertise: Economics of climate change, low-carbon urban development in Africa, climate change risk.
Anton is an economist with Masters degrees in Development Economics and Environmental Change and Management respectively. Anton is currently completing his PhD at the University of Cape Town exploring the interface between economic theory and the green economy. Anton's work focuses on the application of economics to Africa’s urban transition, green finance, environmental degradation and poverty alleviation and the implications of these issues for the discipline of economics itself.
As an economist, Anton has consulted on Africa's emerging green economy, sustainable urbanisation, climate change adaptation, carbon mitigation policies, bioenergy, sustainable trade and integrated water resource management. In 2010 he joined ACC to head their Climate Change City Lab, a role that saw him become the Mistra Urban Futures Researcher on the green economy in Cape Town. Anton continues to be a senior associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and is a founding member of PACE, a not-for-profit organisation developing poverty-alleviating carbon trading projects in southern Africa.