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Climate scientists swap fieldwork for finance By Iain Withers, Carolyn Cohn and Simon Jessop Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Environmental scientist Laura Garcia Velez cut her teeth on projects to help Ethiopian farmers insure crops for drought and connect remote Colombian communities to the electricity grid before working for conservation campaigners WWF. Now she's an analyst for Lombard Odier, charged with improving the $350 billion Swiss bank's green credentials. "It's really important that finance recruits from science," said Velez, one of a growing number of campaigners and scientists wh...

Apr 15, 2021 London – Environmental scientist Laura Garcia Velez cut her teeth on projects to help Ethiopian farmers insure crops for drought and connect remote Colombian communities to the electricity grid before working for conservation campaigners WWF. Now she’s an analyst for Lombard Odier, charged with improving the $350 billion Swiss bank’s green credentials. “It’s really important that finance recruits from science,” said Velez, one of a growing number of campaigners and scientists who have switched to banking, which she hopes can play a role in “greening the pol...

Burness Paull partner to give legal perspective at green-themed P&J Business Breakfast © Supplied by Burness Paull VITAL VOICE: Lawyer Neil Smith will be a key speaker at The P&J's Business Breakfast Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up It may be in transition but the North Sea energy industry is always going to need good lawyers – and one of their ranks is lined up to speak at a tantalising online event focused on top...

Sian Lloyd Rees, of Aker Solutions, is among the top-class speakers who will feature in a virtual business breakfast later this month.

● We also ran a primer on how to get a job as a narrative director, with people who landed the role at Ubisoft Toronto, Hangar 13, CD Projekt Red, Inkle, Tarsier Studios, and Deck13 Games all offering their own insights into the gig, from what it entails to what aspiring narrative directors should know before pursuing it as a career path. ● DI4D co-founder and CEO Colin Urquhart talked about the state of facial animation in the industry, and how the next-gen consoles and AAA's pursuit of increasingly high-fidelity visuals could push developers increasingly to new performance capture techn...