Financial Climate
Join host Alex Roth for conversations with the most insightful investors, innovators, and experts at the frontier of climate and finance.
If you’re working to fight climate change, you know finance has become an essential tool. If you’re a finance professional, you know that an understanding of climate risk and the energy transition is becoming indispensable. The connection between climate and finance will only strengthen as we redeploy trillions in capital to keep Earth habitable.
Podcasting since 2022 • 28 episodes
Financial Climate
Latest Episodes
Ep: 27: How military conflict contributes to climate change, with Ellie Kinney of the Conflict and Environment Observatory
Wars and national defense cause enormous greenhouse gas emissions. But military-related climate pollution is generally excluded from climate change emission totals, including those reported under the UNFCCC (the United Nations Framework Convent...
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Ep. 26: Richard Pennay, CEO of Aon Securities on catastrophe bonds and their role in climate adaptation and resilience
Catastrophe bonds, or cat bonds, have exploded in popularity in recent years. They have emerged as a critical financial tool to foster resilience from hurricanes and other disasters that are made worse or more frequent by climate change. By the...
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Ep. 25: Climate threats to the $4 trillion muni bond market, with Tom Doe, founder and former long-time CEO of Municipal Market Analytics
For decades, municipal bonds have made up a vital asset class for savers, retirees, and institutional investors. In the United States, that market is worth more than $4 trillion. At the same time, the revenue from issuing muni bonds pays for ne...
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Ep. 24: Catherine Bracy, founder and CEO of TechEquity and Author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy
Like so many things in Silicon Valley, venture capital investment in climate tech is cyclical. Climate tech first gained attention from venture capitalists starting around 2006, thanks in part to legendary venture investor John Doerr. After ini...
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Ep. 23: Climate risk expert Carolyn Kousky on the role of insurance in managing a future of increasingly severe weather disasters
In the U.S., between 2020 and 2024, the total cost of major weather related disasters averaged about $150 billion per year. That’s more than five times the annual average during the 1980s, even after adjusting for inflation. At the same time as...
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