Sustainable Views

Dec 02 2024 28 ep. 24 mins 28

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Confused about sustainability? You’re not alone. Environmental, social and governance factors, or ESG, are increasingly a headache for business, finance and world leaders alike. Now even policymakers are creating rules to govern this space. It’s hard to keep up and make sense of it all. So let us help you by sharing some of the most interesting views shaping this space. Join us as we talk to the people living and breathing sustainability – and a few critics too. (We can’t promise this will be a completely jargon-free space, but we shall try!)

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Sustainable Views is an intelligence service by the Financial Times Group.

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Sustainable Views: Why businesses should be at COP

Dec 02 2024 35 mins

Patricia Espinosa, former UNFCCC executive secretary and now chief executive of onepoint5 consultants, and Eliot Whittington, chief systems change officer at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, dissect COP29, what it means for businesses and why private sector voices should be in the room. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sustainable Views: Phasing out fossil fuels in a volatile world

Nov 06 2024 35 mins

At COP28 last year, world leaders agreed to “transition away” from fossil fuels. Rui Teixeira, executive board member and CFO of EDP, and Climate Group CEO Helen Clarkson discuss whether any progress has been made since then and what needs to happen at COP29. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sustainable Views: Why businesses need to catch up on nature action

Oct 02 2024 51 mins

While companies have got used to reporting on their emissions, understanding their impacts on nature and the risks of biodiversity loss to their products and processes is rather new. Andrew Steer, president and CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund, and Roberto Marques, former CEO of cosmetics company Natura and board member of Sysco Corporation and the We Mean Business Coalition, discuss na

Sustainable Views: Can female leadership accelerate climate action?

Sep 24 2024 43 mins

There was barely a woman to be seen in the official photograph of the world's climate leaders at COP28. This is a problem when half of the world's population is female. We spoke to former Canadian environment minister Catherine McKenna and Aron Cramer, CEO and president of sustainability consultancy BSR, about how they believe more women can be brought into the climate space and ho

Sustainable Views: Financing the revolution – funding and money flows for a net zero world

Aug 06 2024 47 mins

The need for the global economy to transition to net zero is now a reasonably settled debate, but there remain many questions about how to finance it. Sustainable Views spoke to two sustainability finance leaders about how to get funds flowing and overcome the so-called “valley of death” for scaling clean tech. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sustainable Views: Tackling Scope 3 emissions – reality check on decarbonisation

Jul 23 2024 42 mins

Indirect emissions account for, on average, around three-quarters of a company’s emissions. Walmart chief sustainability officer Kathleen McLaughlin and Systemiq managing partner Jeremy Oppenheim discuss how companies can ensure real-world reductions in supply chain emissions and whether carbon credits can be part of the solution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr

Partner Content by ING: Changing habits – Romania's bottle battle

Jul 12 2024 20 mins

Partner content by ING.The last podcast in this series examines how one company is working to change the face of bottle recycling in Romania. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Partner content by ING: Circular jeans – stitched for the future

Jul 05 2024 22 mins

Partner content by ING.This podcast looks at how to make the textile industry, and specifically jeans, more eco-friendly. We break down the problem of recycling blended material and how one of the world’s biggest jeans manufacturers is starting a new circular economy approach to textile production in Europe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sustainable Views: How business climate action is evolving

Jul 02 2024 43 mins

Many companies are taking the lead on climate action, but much more needs to happen to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Sustainable Views spoke to three business leaders about the changes they have seen and what companies need to do next. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Partner content by ING: Building the office of the future

Jun 28 2024 16 mins

Partner content by ING.In this podcast, experts discuss how rather than razing old buildings to rubble, New York worked to link existing structures, make them sustainable and create a new community, and how such a project can be financed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.