Women in Climate
From winning lawsuits against multinational fossil fuel producers to pioneering climate resilience programmes across the global south, women are taking the lead on climate, charting the path towards net-zero and a more equitable world.
Yet despite their successes, women’s voices are underrepresented and ignored. In January 2024, the organising committee for COP29 (the annual UN climate summit) appointed no women to its board, an oversight that was only rectified after global media scrutiny.
In this new podcast from GIB Asset Management, we will meet exceptional women across business, government, media and not-for-profit who are driving climate action in their fields.
This podcast series from GIB Asset Management seeks to inspire current and future climate leaders by showcasing the innovative ways women are driving change in the fight against climate change. It will explore challenges from fresh perspectives and demonstrate how integral diverse collaboration is to finding novel solutions and stronger ideas to bring about a more sustainable world.
Hosted by broadcast journalist Naomi Kerbel (formerly Bloomberg, Sky News and CNBC).
Women in Climate
Maintaining Momentum
AI will be the talk of the town at Davos 2025, and this year the summit is focused on ‘Collaboration for the Intelligent Age.’ Last year at Davos, climate change held centre stage, but significant headwinds now threaten the progress that’s been made. A climate-skeptic President has been elected in the US, promising to pull out of international climate negotiations; inaction at COP29 left many attendees despondent; and despite a rapidly expanding share of renewables, global emissions are still growing.
When the tides seem to be turning against climate action, how are leaders responding? Are they justifying climate action in new ways and using different language to speak about it? How are they creating consensus for action now that climate consensus seems in doubt? What new narratives are unfolding around climate action and what are the blockers to doing more? For the first episode of the Women in Climate Podcast, GIB Asset Management, a sustainability-focused investment firm, will host a roundtable at Davos about how to maintain momentum on climate action, highlighting the voices of extraordinary women leaders in the climate space to discuss how they maintain momentum for climate action within their own industries.
This panel discussion was recorded during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with the following guests:
- Katherine Garrett-Cox (CEO of GIB Asset Management)
- Marisa Drew (Chief Sustainability Officer at Standard Chartered Bank)
- Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas (CEO of the Green Finance Institute)
- Dr Manar Al Moneef (Chief Investment Officer at NEOM)
Hosted by:
- Naomi Kerbel, Director of Communications at SEC Newgate UK
