The great investment greenwash
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Trillions of euros — trillions! — are currently invested in 'sustainable' investment funds across Europe. But how green really are these funds? This week we ring up El País journalist Daniele Grasso, part of the international team of reporters behind the Great Green Investment Investigation, to find out. We're also talking about Sanna Marin's defeat, Italy's move to ban ChatGPT, and courgette flowers.
You can find Follow The Money's investigation on green investigation funds here, with links to reporting from Daniele and the rest of the team at the bottom of the page. The TechCrunch piece on the ramifications of Italy's ChatGPT ruling can be found here.
This week's Isolation Inspiration: courgette flowers with garlic butter and oats; 99% Invisible - The Panopticon Effect.
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00:22 British lads and the correct way to enjoy a marathon
04:21 Bad Week: Sanna Marin
09:55 Good Week: Italy vs ChatGPT
20:28 Interview: Daniele Grasso on Europe's not-so-green investment funds
32:19 Isolation Inspiration: Courgette flowers and 99% Invisible: The Panopticon Effect
35:31 Happy Ending: Congratulations, Ryyan!
Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak
Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak
Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina
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| 0:00.0 | Katie, now you're coming to Amsterdam in a few weeks' time, and I was wondering if you, as a |
| 0:28.6 | British and French person visiting Amsterdam, have been targeted by these much publicised online |
| 0:35.3 | ads yet, by the city of Amsterdam calling for British groups of |
| 0:38.6 | lads to stay away from our city. Are you calling me a lad? Well, you have displayed some quite |
| 0:43.9 | ladish behaviours in my many years of knowing you. So I wouldn't be surprised. It's so rude. Well, |
| 0:50.9 | if you're asking, have I been Googling Best Pub Cruel Amsterdam for Stag weekend? |
| 0:57.2 | No, I haven't been doing that. |
| 0:58.9 | So no, I haven't received the warnings. |
| 1:00.8 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:01.7 | Okay, well, I guess you can still come to my lovely city. |
| 1:04.9 | But, yeah, there's been quite a hoo-ha this week about this advertising campaign from the city. |
| 1:09.9 | I don't know if everyone will have seen it, |
| 1:11.3 | but yeah, it's been quite big news in my niche British Amsterdam circle. How's it going down? |
| 1:16.8 | How are people taking it? I think most people think this is not going to do anything to keep people |
| 1:22.4 | away. And if anything, it's just going to remind people that Amsterdam is a wild place to go and |
| 1:27.4 | you can get |
| 1:27.7 | stoned there and yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if there's even an uptick in groups of British |
| 1:32.0 | lads coming to Amsterdam. Oh no, reverse advertising. Maybe this is what they wanted the whole |
| 1:37.4 | time. I don't think so somehow. I don't think so either. Yeah, and I, I've said this on the show before that I feel a bit icky about |
| 1:45.6 | the idea of like wanting the right kind of tourists in town. But having actually lived in the |
| 1:50.4 | centre of town, I do find the groups of lads that come just to drink, take drugs and maybe visit |
| 1:56.1 | the Red Light District. Don't make the city like a nicer place to live in and probably make it a worse place to |
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