ESG Quick Takes

Apr 23 2024 27 ep. 10
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ESG Quick Takes is a podcast from ESG Book that delves into some of the most pressing issues shaping sustainable finance today. In each episode, host Isabel Verkes interviews experts in ESG, climate, data and technology on the latest trends from across the global sustainability landscape. Isabel is Climate and Sustainable Investing Director at ESG Book.

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ESG as common sense: Georg Kell on the future of ESG

May 16 2023 19 mins  
In this latest ESG Quick Takes podcast episode, ESG Book’s Isabel Verkes speaks to Georg Kell, Founding Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact. In this episode, Georg tells the story of the creation of the Global Compact, which he established as the world’s largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative, and discusses the evolution of ESG as well as the

ESG Quick Takes 10 - Making an impact through climate VC investing

Feb 06 2023 22 mins  
Peter Fox-Penner is a partner and Chief Impact Officer at Climate VC firm Energy Impact Partners (EIP), where he directs all ESG and impact measurement, helps EIP’s portfolio companies to improve their ESG performance, and collaborates with EIP’s limited partners to accelerate their clean energy transitions. He is also a founding member of Project Frame, a coalition of leading

ESG Quick Takes 9 - Sustainability goals: a decade of delivery. How Google Cloud is helping corporates with their sustainability journey

Dec 09 2022 19 mins  
Tech companies are known for their low emissions profile, but what about their clients? How can big tech not just improve its own carbon footprint, but also help drive corporate sustainability in other sectors? This is what we talk about with Justin Keeble in this episode. He is Managing Director of Global Sustainability at Google Cloud, and leading several initiatives to support G

ESG Quick Takes 8 - COP27 Debrief: What investors should know.

Nov 23 2022 22 mins  
COP27 meetings in Egypt just wrapped up last week, and much has been discussed. Alex Money, was at COP27 and has the latest for us. He is with Oxford University, leading the Innovative Infrastructure Investment (in3) program, after a long career in fund management. We speak with Alex to understand what we should take away from this COP, and how this links with sustainable investing

ESG Quick Takes 7 - US Climate and Energy Policy is behind

Aug 22 2022 13 mins  
Samantha Gross is a fellow and director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at The Brookings Institution. Her work is focused on the intersection of energy, environment, and policy. Gross has more than 20 years of experience in energy and environmental affairs. She was director of the Office of International Climate and Clean Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. Befor

ESG Quick Takes 6 - Investing on a Net-Zero Emissions Budget is Investing

Aug 19 2022 23 mins  
As a growing number of investors have Net Zero targets, the question comes up: what does a Net Zero pathway look like?We are talking to climate scenario wizard Sven Teske, who researches energy decarbonisation pathways at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney. Most recently, Sven Teske led the work on the One Earth Climate Model (OECM) commissioned

ESG Quick Takes 5 - All the Problems with ESG Investing

Jul 22 2022 20 mins  
Mark Zurack teaches investing courses at Columbia Business School, and Cornell University, including ESG investing. Prior to this, Zurack worked at Goldman Sachs for 18 years where he started Goldman’s equity derivatives business and led its international expansion. His capital markets background gives him an interesting take on ESG, which we discuss in this podcast.

ESG Quick Takes 4 - Decarbonizing Heavy Industry

Jun 08 2022 20 mins  
This week’s guest is Marian Chertow, Professor of Industrial Environmental Management at Yale University. Prior to Yale, Professor Chertow spent ten years in environmental business and state and local government including service as president of a bonding authority that built a billion dollars worth of waste infrastructure. Professor Chertow and her research team are working toge

4 - Navigating the ocean of ESG data

Nov 29 2021 40 mins  
In the fourth episode of Arabesque's Decoding Sustainable Finance, Ulrika is joined by Dr Todd Bridges, Global Head of Sustainable Investing and ESG Research at Arabesque S-Ray, to discuss how to navigate ESG data, cut through noise and identify what is useful for investors and meaningful for companies.

Quick Take 3 - Making Crypto More Sustainable

Feb 18 2022 17 mins  
In this episode of our Sustainable Finance Quick Takes podcast, we talk about the efforts around making crypto more sustainable. Our guest is Doug Miller who is working on renewable energy solutions for crypto miners and exchanges. Doug’s work is also with the Crypto Climate Accord, a private sector-led initiative for the crypto community that recently published a reporting guida