This is Exchanges at Goldman Sachs and I'm Allison Nathan a senior strategist in Goldman Sachs research.

In this episode we're going to kick off a special series on the exchanges feed

that zeros in on climate change and the path to indent zero future.

To do that I'm delighted to be speaking with John Goldstein,

head of the firm's Sustainable Finance Group,

who's joining us remotely from San Francisco.

And joining me here in the studio is Kara Mangone,

global head of the firm's climate strategy who's

responsible for working across all divisions of the firm to deliver on the firm's

climate initiatives. Kara John, welcome to the program.

Hey, great to be here, Allison. Thanks for having us.

Thanks, Allison.

So both of you are on the front lines of sustainable finance and decarbonization.

Maybe some level setting is in order here for those of us who are into as engaged in these efforts.

So give us a sense where are we in our effort to reach a more sustainable future?

We've gotten to the starting line, right, which is there's clarity that this is important.

People are mobilized, you know,

we don't have to work to get people's attention.

So now it's not a chief sustainability officer conversations.

It's a CEO, CEO CEO, the phone board.

Now it really comes down to execution,

and the task is big.

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