Financial Climate

Nov 22 2023 12
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Join host Alex Roth for conversations with the most insightful investors, innovators, and experts at the frontier of climate and finance.

If you’re working to fight climate change, you know finance has become an essential tool. If you’re a finance professional, you know that an understanding of climate risk and the energy transition is becoming indispensable. The connection between climate and finance will only strengthen as we redeploy trillions in capital to keep Earth habitable. 

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Ep. 20: Corporate and securities law expert Emily Strauss on the potential and limitations of climate-related shareholder lawsuits

Nov 22 2023 44 mins  
In the last episode of this show, I had the privilege of talking with Elizabeth Burch and Adam Orford, two law professors from University of Georgia. They helped me to better understand many of the types of climate lawsuits that have proliferated in recent years.But there are so many varieties of climate litigation that there’s a whole other category we barely touched on, which h

Ep. 19: Law Professors Elizabeth Chamblee Burch and Adam Orford discuss the recent proliferation of major climate lawsuits

Nov 01 2023 37 mins  
In recent years, as climate change has gained attention, there's been a proliferation of climate related lawsuits. They're based on a wide variety of legal theories. Some are brought under federal statutes like the Clean Air Act, others are brought under state statutes. Still others rely on common law, which is so old that it predates the widespread use of fossil fuels. S

Ep. 18: Attorney and climate entrepreneur Catherine Atkin on California's pathbreaking new greenhouse gas emission disclosure law

Oct 11 2023 54 mins  
The Paris climate agreement was designed to keep Earth habitable through a framework of national emission reduction commitments. But actual binding laws enforcing those commitments are still lagging behind. In response, many corporations have promised to reach net zero emissions voluntarily. Many have released plans of how they intend to do that. And consumers and investors have so

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

Sep 20 2023 44 mins  
InnSure is a nonprofit organization that fosters insurance-related innovations to address climate problems. Usually, we think of insurance as a tool for climate change adaptation—and it is. But InnSure also looks at insurance as an indispensable tool to help implement and scale emission-reducing technologies. I wanted to understand better why and how that is. I also wanted to lea

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

Aug 30 2023 52 mins  
More than ever before, advocates are pressuring private-sector companies to take action related to climate impacts. One thing that’s increased the potential effectiveness of these tactics is the tremendous concentration of corporate voting power in the hands of a small number of enormous asset managers. And at the same time, huge, secretive, private equity firms are amassing cont

Ep. 15: Planet Tracker CEO Robin Millington talks about using sophisticated financial tools to make markets more environmentally sustainable

Jul 26 2023 35 mins  
Robin Millington is the CEO of the London-based nonprofit financial think tank Planet Tracker. She talks about how her organization uses sophisticated financial tools to make markets more environmentally sustainable.https://planet-tracker.org/

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

Jul 05 2023 46 mins  
Ben Keys, a professor of real estate and finance at the Wharton School of Business talks about the effects of climate risk on insurance, property values, and real estate markets. Relevant Links:Ben Keys New York Times guest opinion on climate risk and homeowners' insuranceBen Keys Congressional testimonyhttps://firststreet.org/https://www.nber.org/papers/w27930 (Ben Keys and P

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.

Jun 14 2023 44 mins  
In 2012, Emilie Mazzacurati founded a company called Four Twenty Seven. It pioneered the practice of applying esoteric scientific climate models to help businesses manage climate risk. She sold the company to Moody's in 2019, and stayed on to manage it as Moody's Global Head of Climate Solutions. She's now working on a new venture related to climate mitigation. Emil

Ep. 12: Belizean Ambassador and UN negotiator Janine Felson discusses international climate finance and the critical climate challenges of small island states

May 24 2023 50 mins  
Ambassador Janine Felson is an expert on international climate finance frameworks and governance structures. She served as a senior diplomat from Belize to the United Nations. She contributed to crucial international negotiations, including the 2015 Paris climate agreement. She also held key roles as a negotiator and strategist on behalf of a coalition of countries facing extreme c

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.

May 03 2023 45 mins  
In 2020, Ulf Erlandsson founded a nonprofit activist think tank called the Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute, or AFII. Through sophisticated analysis of bond markets, the organization seeks to hold corporations and governments accountable to climate goals. Erlandsson worked for many years as a bond trader and fixed income portfolio manager, including on behalf of AP4, a Swedish p