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ESG Currents — 141 episodes

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Paying for Results - World Bank on Outcome Bonds

2

Critical Evolution of Japan's Carbon Credit Market

3

Debating Whether Climate Risk Is Already Priced In

4

Improving Carbon Management With Better Measures

5

Inside the RFP - Expectations for Asset Managers

6

Pricing Water Risk and Scaling Climate Resilience

7

The Playbook for Sustainable Private-Market Funds

8

Embracing Nuance to Profitably Address Plastic

9

Kita on How Insurers Enable CO2-Removal Financing

10

Mangroves Are Triple Threat for Climate Resilience

11

Plugging Methane Leaks to Power AI Data Centers

12

Explaining the Ins and Outs of Blended Finance

13

Clean Power’s AI-Driven Demand Opportunity

14

Trillium on the Value of Shareholder Engagement

15

How AI and Energy Are Reshaping Corporate Strategy

16

Making Africa Bankable - Financing Resilience

17

Ambienta’s Scientific Approach to Sustainability

18

Professor Lipton on State of Corporate Governance

19

What Forces Will Drive ESG Markets in 2026

20

Sustainable Markets Initiative Eyes Climate Goals

21

Food, Trust and the Art of IPCC Climate Diplomacy

22

Nissin's Pioneering Approach to Nature Capital

23

Packaging the Future: Scaling Seaweed to Meet Plastic Regulations

24

Inside CalPERS’ $100 Billion Climate-Action Plan

25

Impact Investing – How the Ecosystem Works

26

How PepsiCo Integrates Sustainability in Strategy

27

Japan's Next-Generation Decarbonization Technologies

28

It Will Never Be a Better Deal to Invest in Nature

29

Green Bonds Scaled Impact, Blue Bonds to Deepen It

30

Frost Methane’s Plan to Destroy, Valorize Emissions

31

Lewis on Shareholder Rights Coming Under Attack

32

Carbon Markets' Gaps, Solutions and the Path Ahead

33

Retail’s $1 Trillion Climate Problem

34

Why ESG Engagement Matters to Portfolio Management

35

Climate-Proofing the Agriculture Economy

36

Global Shipping's Net Zero Strategy, Challenges

37

Can a Stock Market Help Solve Climate Change?

38

Navigating Noise, Regulation, Risks in Late 2025

39

Mapping Physical Climate Risk With Riskthinking.AI

40

Patagonia's CEO on Leading a Mission-Driven Company

41

Scaling Up Nature Finance Through Sovereign Debt

42

The Private Equity Approach to Climate Investing

43

Danny Rice on Role of Nat Gas in Energy Transition

44

Using AI to Dissect Sustainability Regulations

45

Malaysia's CIMB Seeks to Reshape Global Palm Oil

46

Detours Around Challenges to California Standards

47

Public Climate Data Value – University of Maryland

48

Former Rep. Inglis’ Conservative Case for Climate

49

Inside AirMyne’s Low-Cost, Scalable Carbon Removal

50

Asia's Investors Step Up Scrutiny of Climate Risks

51

Bucking Trends: UAE Banks See Sustainable Finance Profit Center

52

Rethinking Desalination, OceanWell’s Subsea System

53

Singapore's UOB on Driving Sustainability in Asia

54

Scaling Removal of GHG to 10 Gigatons by 2050

55

Integrating Sustainability a Strategic Imperative

56

How AWS Fosters Weeding Robots, Other Climate Tech

57

20% Sustainable Finance Metrics Driving 80% Impact: ESG Currents

58

Taking the Forever Out of Forever Chemicals

59

How Can Companies Navigate the Rocky DEI Landscape

60

Gretchen Carlson on Ending Employee Silencing

61

Unpacking the ESG Landscape in Trump’s Second Term

62

Heart Aerospace Looks to Electrify Aviation

63

Ecolab Sees Opportunities in Water Scarcity

64

ESG Tailgate With the Eagles and Green Sports Alliance

65

Forces for Nature, From Finance to Fashion

66

Galvanize’s Tom Steyer on Climate Investing

67

Finance Aiding Nature, a $10 Trillion Opportunity

68

Getting Electrons Onto the Grid for the AI World

69

Say What You Want, But ESG Isn’t Going Anywhere

70

Getting Sustainability Right in a Polarized World

71

Impacts of the US Election on EVs, Electrification

72

Artificial Intelligence in Sustainable Financing

73

Manulife IM on Nature’s Value in Private Markets

74

Climate Vault’s Greenstone on Economics of Carbon

75

Sustainability and the Need to Look Within

76

Synopsys CFO on Making AI More Efficient by Design

77

Listen Now: Inside Active by Bloomberg Intelligence

78

Storms Rival Hurricanes in $100 Billion New Norm

79

NY Rangers Legend Richter on Energy Incentives

80

PRI – Global Investor Push to Tackle Global Issues

81

Former White House Climate Advisor on IRA’s Future

82

BNP Asset Management on Stewardship, Nature Action

83

Kukuljan on the Orange-Crop Shock and Nature-Positive Investing

84

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson’s Vision of Climate Future

85

Digging for Value with ‘Values-Based’ Investing

86

One of the Biggest Asset Owners on Responsibility

87

Saturna Capital Parses the Messy Energy Transition

88

Rubicon’s Montag on the Future of Carbon Markets

89

Sustainability Through the Disparate Lenses of Fishing and Credit Reporting

90

Nuveen’s Liberatore on ESG Links to Free Cash Flow

91

Climeworks CFO Aepli on Putting the CO2 Genie Back in the Bottle

92

The Building Blocks of Net Zero: Tech, Relationships and Capex

93

Welz on Climate Breakdown’s Impact on Wild Nature

94

Delta CSO DeLuca on Airlines Jetting to Net Zero

95

How to Select Strong Sustainability-Fund Managers?

96

Pricing Migrating Climate Risk With First Street

97

A Changing Landscape From Politics to Boardroom

98

Generation’s le Duc Sees ESG as Fiduciary Duty

99

Rick Fox and Partanna’s CO2-Absorbing Concrete

100

Former Mars CEO Reid on Enabling Sustainability

101

CDPQ’s Blanchard on the Need to Do Sustainable Finance Differently

102

Avenues for Climate Tech? Industry Solutions, Innovative Product Structures and more

103

Kolbert Sees Great Work, Scant Progress on Climate

104

NYSIF on Aiming for a Net-Zero Portfolio by 2040

105

Ropes & Gray Partners on the Laws Threatening ESG

106

Nuveen’s Wilson on ESG-Asset Growth Stories

107

NYS Comptroller DiNapoli on Knowing When to Divest

108

TNFD Makes It Clear Nature Risk Is Financial Risk

109

Climate Action 100+ on Moving From Words to Action

110

Should ‘Rational Sustainability’ Replace ESG?

111

‘Green Is Not Black and White’

112

Navigating Through the Climate-Transition Noise

113

Roadblocks to IRA’s Support for Climate Transition

114

How Local Water Problems Have Global Implications

115

A Focus on Equality With a Gender Lens Investor

116

Insights From One of the Oldest ‘E’ Fund Houses

117

Goodwin Procter’s Reyes Discusses ESG Legal Issues

118

Baristas vs. the Board: A Proxy Fight at Starbucks

119

When the Data Isn’t Perfect, You Still Have to Act

120

The Struggle to Earn and Pay a Living Wage

121

COP28 Conference — Successes and Shortcomings

122

Demystifying Carbon Market Opportunities and Risk

123

ESG By Proxy — Shareholder Proposals Hit Record

124

Hot Topics in Sustainability Disclosure With ISSB

125

Sustainable Debt Trends and the Evolution of the Greenium

126

Financed Emissions, Pairing Urgency With Nascency

127

RGGI, the 'Quiet Giant' of Carbon Markets

128

Tips & Tricks for an ESG and Sustainability Career

129

The War on Woke

130

How ESG Enhances Company Analysis, A PM's View

131

Is Sustainability Driving Better Financial Performance?

132

ESG Around the World With UN PRI’s Nathan Fabian

133

The Heat Is On, Green Financing Can Help

134

Congressman Casten on ESG Policy in Washington, DC

135

EY’s Bell on Making Sustainability a Reality

136

Defending the Climate

137

Measuring the Intangible - Human Capital

138

Houston We Have A Methane Problem

139

The Key to the G

140

Unpacking the Value of S in ESG

141

There's More to E Than Climate: ESG Currents