133. Innovative Finance to Fast-Forward Climate Solutions with Hiro Mizuno
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
COP26 saw announcement after announcement from the financial sector, but we have questions. First off, why the sudden wake-up? What will follow? And, critically, will it be enough to address the climate crisis?
Here to help us make sense of the fast-moving developments is Hiro Mizuno, Special Envoy of U.N Secretary-General on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments. Hiro shares his deep insights into the financial landscape since the shift towards recognition of the systemic risk posed by the climate crisis.
Reaching back to the Industrial Revolution, Hiro talks us through the role of the finance industry in accelerating change. Financial institutions’ competitive nature may well drive their transition to net-zero business models and portfolios – but it’ll be the next twelve months that prove the worth of the COP26 announcements, Hiro reminds us.
Covering regulation, GFANZ, public trust, carbon pricing, and much more, this is a wide-ranging conversation not to be missed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, so recently on Outrage and Optimism, listeners will be aware that we have been |
| 0:04.6 | bringing you a series of conversations to break down what happened at COP26 from different |
| 0:09.6 | angles. |
| 0:10.6 | We've talked to activists, we've talked to politicians and a range of others, and today |
| 0:14.3 | we wanted to bring you a perspective from somebody who is deeply immersed in the world |
| 0:18.3 | of finance, to comment not only on where this issue is writ large in the world right now, |
| 0:22.5 | but specifically what came out of the COP. |
| 0:24.8 | And we could not have anyone better than hero Mizuno. |
| 0:29.0 | Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary General, appointed hero Mizuno as special envoy on |
| 0:34.2 | innovative finance and sustainable investments in December 2020. |
| 0:38.1 | He has been in this world for an enormous amount of time. |
| 0:41.7 | He used to be Executive Management Director and Chief Investment Officer of the Government |
| 0:46.2 | Pension Investment Fund of Japan, which is one of the largest asset owners in the world. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm going to pass you over now to Cristiano Cristiano Paul hosted this conversation with |
| 0:55.2 | hero just a couple of days ago. |
| 0:57.0 | She further introduces him right at the beginning of the conversation, so I will leave you in |
| 1:00.6 | her capable hands. |
| 1:02.0 | But just to say that we will be back as ever this week on Thursday with a conversation |
| 1:05.9 | with Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director of Greenpeace International. |
| 1:09.5 | But for now, please enjoy this special conversation with hero Mizuno. |
| 1:18.5 | Hero Mizuno, thank you so much for joining us here on Outrage and Optimism. |
| 1:24.4 | For those who don't know you yet, the Secretary General Antonio Guterres named you special |
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