Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of PG&E Corporation To Speak at Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church
Peter Darbee, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of PG&E Corporation will speak on Climate Change: The Time is Now at the First Friday Forum (FFF) on February 2 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall at Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church, 49 Knox Drive, Lafayette. Refreshments will be served at 1:00 p.m.
"We believe that the challenge of global warming is among the greatest threats mankind has ever faced," explains Darbee. "We’ve thrown our company’s weight behind state laws designed to fight climate change."
Darbee is also active on the national level and is a frequent visitor to Capitol Hill where he pushes for a nationwide system to limit the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for heating the planet.
"The United States is the world’s largest energy user and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. It is also has the world’s wealthiest and most innovative economy. No other country bears a greater capacity to lead the global response on climate change," Darbee states.
Darbee comes with impressive credentials. He joined PG&E in 1999 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that he held high ranking positions at Advanced Fibre Corporation, Inc., Pacific Bell and Goldman Sachs, where he was Vice President and co-head of the company’s energy and telecommunications group.
A graduate of Dartmouth College, with an MBA from their Amos Tuck School of Business, Darbee also completed the Nuclear Reactor Technology Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"With climate change as one of the top issues in current public policy debates, the February 2 First Friday Forum offers a unique opportunity to learn and to have questions answered," says Caroline Giers, chair of the FFF committee. She also announces that Tom Vacar, Consumer Editor of KTVU/Fox2, will speak at the FFF, March 7 on Consumer Rights from Energy Prices to ID Theft.
For further information contact the church at (925) 283-8722.
"We believe that the challenge of global warming is among the greatest threats mankind has ever faced," explains Darbee. "We’ve thrown our company’s weight behind state laws designed to fight climate change."
Darbee is also active on the national level and is a frequent visitor to Capitol Hill where he pushes for a nationwide system to limit the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for heating the planet.
"The United States is the world’s largest energy user and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. It is also has the world’s wealthiest and most innovative economy. No other country bears a greater capacity to lead the global response on climate change," Darbee states.
Darbee comes with impressive credentials. He joined PG&E in 1999 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that he held high ranking positions at Advanced Fibre Corporation, Inc., Pacific Bell and Goldman Sachs, where he was Vice President and co-head of the company’s energy and telecommunications group.
A graduate of Dartmouth College, with an MBA from their Amos Tuck School of Business, Darbee also completed the Nuclear Reactor Technology Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"With climate change as one of the top issues in current public policy debates, the February 2 First Friday Forum offers a unique opportunity to learn and to have questions answered," says Caroline Giers, chair of the FFF committee. She also announces that Tom Vacar, Consumer Editor of KTVU/Fox2, will speak at the FFF, March 7 on Consumer Rights from Energy Prices to ID Theft.
For further information contact the church at (925) 283-8722.
posted by CIPL Blogger at
12:51 PM
1 Comments:
We need a lot more like him. But unless governments around the world cooperate, and soon, and like they never have before, it's hard to see corporate volunteerism solving the problem. Maybe enough like-minded corporations could band together and lobby government...?
This is one of those cases where it's extremely easy to see the problem and much harder to envision a solution given the character of what passes for political leadership in so many quarters around the globe today.
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