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🗓️ 24 January 2022
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The financial sector often talks of decarbonizing investment portfolios as a way to fight climate change. But portfolios can be "cleaned" without having any real impact on the problem, says investment expert Nili Gilbert. Bringing science to finance, she unpacks how investors can actually help decarbonize the world and ensure the climate transition is just, global and interconnected. After the talk, Corey discusses how many businesses are boasting climate-beneficial practices, and how you can vet their impact as a consumer.
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0:20.4 | gonna fill in for a regular host and share a few of the talks from 2021 that |
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0:42.8 | stage on screen. I got to be honest, it's a pretty sweet gig. Today I'm gonna |
0:49.1 | bring you a talk from our countdown conference which was in Scotland last year. |
0:52.9 | It featured a whole slew of speakers who offered real solutions to our |
0:57.6 | climate crisis. It actually made me feel really hopeful. We heard about |
1:02.3 | solutions for problems in a wide range of industries, everything from aviation |
1:07.6 | to shipping to agriculture and also within investing. Money certainly is a |
1:14.4 | driver of change and transformation but can the investment community truly |
1:19.4 | motivate the right outcomes, the ones we want and need? That's where this |
1:24.7 | talk by Mealy Gilbert comes in. She's an investment professional who focuses on |
1:29.2 | businesses they're trying to decarbonize not just the businesses that already |
1:33.5 | have. She addresses a common debate in green investing whether to take your |
1:38.9 | money away from dirty industries or to actively invest in the companies that |
1:44.1 | want to change but might need a ton of money to do it. That's coming up after |
1:49.4 | the break. |
1:55.2 | Support for this podcast comes from BCG. There are so many urgent questions in |
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