A playbook on financing climate solutions | Nili Gilbert and David Blood
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🗓️ 2 December 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Tackling climate change costs a lot of money — and the financial sector is key to getting that money flowing. In a wide-ranging conversation, sustainable investment leaders Nili Gilbert and David Blood discuss where progress is being made on climate solutions, where capital still needs to move faster and why this is an unprecedented opportunity for sustainable growth.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm at least here. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm at least Hugh, it's TED Talks Daily. |
| 0:12.0 | Tackling climate change costs money, a lot of it. |
| 0:15.0 | And today's conversation focuses on why financial markets |
| 0:18.6 | have been slow to take on the challenge of decarbonizing the economy. |
| 0:23.0 | Sustainable investing leaders David Blood and Millie Gilbert sit down at the TED countdown |
| 0:27.7 | summit in 2023 to talk through how to speed up and scale funding of climate solutions after the break. |
| 0:37.6 | Like TED Talks, you should check out the TED Radio Hour with NPR. |
| 0:42.0 | Stay tuned after this talk to hear a sneak peek of this week's episode. |
| 0:47.4 | The reality is that while financial capital has been moving towards addressing the climate transition. |
| 0:55.0 | It's not moving fast enough, and it's not moving at the scale that we need. |
| 1:00.0 | So it's really great to be here with you today |
| 1:03.4 | to talk about why we think that's happening, |
| 1:06.3 | what we think some of the challenges are, |
| 1:09.3 | and how to address it. |
| 1:11.0 | So what are you seeing? |
| 1:13.4 | Well, maybe we'll start with a little bit of background. |
| 1:16.6 | The United Nations estimates that we will need something in the order of three to four |
| 1:21.1 | trillion dollars per year to globally decarbonize our economy through 2050. |
| 1:28.6 | This shift, and I know you talk about this as well well will be the most significant shift in economic history. |
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