Welcome to Zero. I am Akshadrati.

The summer of heat off it,

but planet over profit.

The summer of heat, that's what's

city's out of the headquarters are calling it.

But some activists prefer to work from the inside, especially when it comes to changing the

financial system.

And what does that look like?

Today's guest has the answer.

Lucy Pinson is the director of the Paris-based climate nonprofit

Reclaim Finance. She doesn't march or pick it corporate headquarters. Instead

Reclaim Finance gets to know the power centers inside big finance. From sustainability

chiefs to investment officers.

Lucy has been at it for a decade now, pushing big banks to move away from financing fossil fuels,

and her efforts have led to some of France's largest banks and insurance companies, including AXA, to stop funding coal.

In May, thanks to pressure from reclaim finance, BNP Pariba announced that it would no longer underwrite bonds for oil and gas producers.

Now, there is still a long way to go, but these are not small wins.

So I caught up with Lucy when she

visited London earlier this summer and we talked about how to break through on

climate with finance wanks We know we need to transition the global economy, including companies and financial institutions that back them to clean energy.

However, in the capitalist economy, short-term profits outweigh long-term risks. But now that many of

these long-term risks aren't really long-term, climate impacts are happening now, many companies are

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