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Episode 271 | September 22, 2024

Schroders’ Insurance Linked Securities & PE Investment Strategies Spur Climate Adaptation and Resilience

Irene Lauro, an Economist at Schroders; Christophe Etienne, is a Senior Natural Catastrophe Specialist on the Insurance Linked Securities team at Schroders Capital; Martin E. Diaz Plata is Head of Private Equity Investments at Blue Orchard

It’s Climate Week 2024 in New York, and all eyes are on the decarbonization and climate transition trend, with climate mitigation investing often taking center stage. But as the physical effects of climate change on people and the global economy continue to escalate, it’s increasingly obvious that investments in climate adaptation and resilience are also […]

Episode 227 | August 6, 2023

Investing in Water Propels Prosperity & Climate Resilience

Paul O’Connell, President of WaterEquity and Gloria Mirrione, Head of Sustainable Finance & Impact Investing, Acre Americas

Building a global capital market that accelerates universal access to safe water and sanitation is WaterEquity’s mission and is at the core of global sustainable development. In addition to being a key determinant of improved health outcomes, gender equality and resilience to climate change, it is also a driver of overall economic growth. I’m very […]

Episode 194 | January 2, 2023

Proposed: The Federal Supplier Climate Risk and Resilience Rule

Ceres Climate Advisors: Sarah O’Brien, Steven Rothstein & John Kostyack

A new rule proposed by the Biden Administration would require large federal contractors to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and other climate change risks, as well as set science-based emissions reduction targets. At $630 billion in annual spending the U.S. Government is the largest purchaser of goods and services in the world! Climate advisors […]

Episode 82 | May 11, 2020

Trucost Analyzes S&P Global’s Climate Risk

Rochele J. March, Manager, ESG innovation and Analytics at Trucost, part of S&P Global

Trucost is the sustainability analytics division of S&P. In 2019 March and her team did the first analysis of S&P Global using TCFD (Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures) metrics to look at S&P Global’s physical and transition risks related to climate change. March discusses the findings.

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