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Financial Climate — 28 episodes
Ep: 27: How military conflict contributes to climate change, with Ellie Kinney of the Conflict and Environment Observatory
Ep. 26: Richard Pennay, CEO of Aon Securities on catastrophe bonds and their role in climate adaptation and resilience
Ep. 25: Climate threats to the $4 trillion muni bond market, with Tom Doe, founder and former long-time CEO of Municipal Market Analytics
Ep. 24: Catherine Bracy, founder and CEO of TechEquity and Author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy
Ep. 23: Climate risk expert Carolyn Kousky on the role of insurance in managing a future of increasingly severe weather disasters
Ep. 22: Bill McKibben, climate activist and bestselling author, on the extraordinary promise of solar power and the path forward toward climate stability
Ep. 21: Power grid expert Rob Gramlich, on the challenges and opportunities of transmission infrastructure improvement
Ep. 20: Corporate and securities law expert Emily Strauss on the potential and limitations of climate-related shareholder lawsuits
Ep. 19: Law Professors Elizabeth Chamblee Burch and Adam Orford discuss the recent proliferation of major climate lawsuits
Ep. 18: Attorney and climate entrepreneur Catherine Atkin on California's pathbreaking new greenhouse gas emission disclosure law
Ep. 17: Christopher Lowell of InnSure, on how insurance innovations can enable climate tech firms to scale, and help communities adapt to a changing climate
Ep. 16: Harvard Law and Economics Professor John C. Coates on his new book, The Problem of 12: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything
Ep. 15: Planet Tracker CEO Robin Millington talks about using sophisticated financial tools to make markets more environmentally sustainable
Ep. 14: The effects of climate risk on insurance, property values, and real estate markets, with Ben Keys, a professor of real estate and finance at Wharton
Ep: 13: Entrepreneur and climate risk expert Emilie Mazzacurati talks about the climate risk analytics company she founded, emerging opportunities in climate adaptation, and more.
Ep. 12: Belizean Ambassador and UN negotiator Janine Felson discusses international climate finance and the critical climate challenges of small island states
Ep. 11: "Bond vigilante" and AFII CEO Ulf Erlandsson talks about how the bond market can accelerate decarbonization and help hold companies and governments accountable to climate goals.
Ep. 10: Dimitry Gershenson, co-founder and CEO of Enduring Planet
Ep. 9: Energy analyst and strategist Kingsmill Bond on what the energy transition means for financial markets
Ep. 8: Danny Cullenward on rethinking cap-and-trade policies, what's wrong with carbon offsets, and more
Ep. 7: Franz Hochstrasser, CEO of Raise Green
Ep. 6: Bryan Garcia, CEO of Connecticut Green Bank
Ep. 5: Sylvia Leyva Martinez, of Wood Mackenzie, on the challenges and complexities of the solar industry’s current astronomical growth
Ep. 4: Henry Sanderson on his book, Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
Ep. 3: Uday Varadarajan of RMI talks about the challenges and opportunities of shutting down America’s remaining coal-fired power plants
Ep. 2: Sam Van den plas of Carbon Market Watch discusses the European Emission Trading System’s successes, failures, and challenges.
Ep. 1: Katherine Blunt discusses her book, California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric—and What It Means for America's Power Grid
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