100. Financing The Race to Zero!
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the third episode of our Race To Zero series!
In this episode, we show you the money. Finance is an absolutely crucial factor in accelerating our world towards a Net-Zero future, and with less than 9 years left to halve our global emissions and current investments and markets spiraling towards catastrophic risk, it’s going to take every financial lever we have to shift the global economy to a sustainable, equitable, and just system.
On topics of investment, divestment, engagement, and tropical carbon pricing, you’ll hear from:
Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and Prime Minister Johnson’s Finance Adviser for COP26
Amal-Lee Amin, Director of Climate Change at CDC and Senior Advisor to the UK COP26 Unit
Thomas Di Napoli, New York State Comptroller
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility
Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, IMF
And of course our good friend,
Nigel Topping, High Level Climate Action Champion for COP26
The race is on! Buckle up and hit play.
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Mark Carney
UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and Prime Minister Johnson’s Finance Adviser for COP26
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Amal-Lee Amin
Director of Climate Change at CDC and Senior Advisor to the UK COP26 Unit
CDC
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Thomas Di Napoli
New York State Comptroller
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Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director, IMF
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Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility
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Nigel Topping High Level Climate Action Champion for COP26
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| 0:00.0 | Race to zero! |
| 0:09.0 | Five... |
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| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. I'm Tom Ruffick Karnak. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Cristiana Fighettas. |
| 0:30.0 | And I'm Paul Dickinson. We are back with another episode in our Race to Zero series today. |
| 0:35.0 | We are going to be delving in to the all-important crucial issue of finance. |
| 0:40.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:42.0 | So, listeners, we have a cracking episode for you today. This is going to be a really remarkable hour in which we're going to delve into one of the most important and consequential issues on climate change. |
| 1:06.0 | And that is finance. Now, don't panic. Data suggests that finance is an issue that many people find incredibly intimidating and that they don't understand the language. There's a whole bunch of terminology. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm boring and boring. |
| 1:19.0 | So, I'm not rich enough. So, I haven't got any money anyway. So, it's like... |
| 1:23.0 | However... |
| 1:24.0 | A complicated, impenetrable, boring issue. |
| 1:27.0 | However, it could not be more important. This is where the rubber meets the road. |
| 1:31.0 | This is where we're going to decide, or it is going to be decided whether or not we deal with this issue in time or not. |
| 1:37.0 | And actually, what we've got for you today is a series of amazing conversations that are straightforward, that will help you understand what's going on, and that will demonstrate how we can move through these difficult issues to actually achieve the turning points that we need. It's all very exciting. |
| 1:52.0 | Well, I couldn't agree with you more. And I'm going to quote three fantastic quotations, two from people... |
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