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Technology.

What is it all about?

When you take all the challenges over the last 20 years of this thing going into and out of fashion in one sense,

to find the largest two trading box competing with each other, to attract those companies,

and to scale up this green industrial revolution.

It's an amazing thing.

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley. We are here for your last installment before our summer break.

On the show this week, we have Sean Kingsbury.

Now, for climate tech nerds, you will know him as the former CEO of the Green Investment Bank, which was started more than a decade ago.

It was a really interesting idea when it was started, started by the government in Britain,

to really fast forward the green transition by funding projects.

Others wouldn't.

Others in kind of the private markets just wouldn't touch because they're too risky.

They're too expensive.

They're too hard.

And the result was that the bank catalyzed a huge wave of an

investment and really catapulted Britain to really the forefront of cleaning up their energy

infrastructure. And that has continued. The green investment bank made very good returns.

And it was sold to Macquarie, big Australian investment bank and infrastructure investors.

So it was just a big success all around that people have since tried to imitate.

And after that, Kingsbury was, you know, looking around trying to figure out what to do next.

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