The Sustainable Finance Podcast

Paul Ellis
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Investors and advisors can learn everything they need to know about sustainable finance as Paul Ellis interviews leaders in the field.

  1. 11/11/2025

    Sustainability – Less Public Commitments, More Delivering on Objectives

    Sustainability has moved out of the asset management limelight over the last few years. Faced with more political pressures and conservative policy agendas in some countries, firms in the investment industry are experiencing slower flows into sustainable funds, even in Europe earlier this year. Schroders has been a leader in sustainable investment for almost 30 years, featuring dedicated sustainability career experts across asset classes, markets and countries. And today we’re speaking to Andy Howard – who heads sustainable investment globally at Schroders -- for his take on where we are, where we are going next and what Schroders is doing to continue to expand its leadership role in sustainable investment opportunities through active management and engagement.

    34 min

  2. 09/21/2025

    How to Avoid the “Valley of Death” in Sustainable Tech Startups

    The “Valley of Death” has become a popular term to describe a challenging period for sustainability focused startups. Bridging this “valley of death” in commercialization of sustainable technologies is a key role today's guest believes her company can play for their clients. Cindy Jia is Head of the Sustainable Solutions Group at ING Capital. Her goals for the ING team include accelerating adoption of sustainable tech and facilitating an easy transition between the different capital pools that are available. Today we're going to discuss the challenges in achieving these goals and how ING has progressed.

    18 min

  3. 08/25/2025

    Climate Change is a Massive Disruptive Event Driving a Global Responsible Investment Mega Trend

    Today’s guest on the Sustainable Finance Podcast believes that we are in the early stages of a persistent, global investment mega trend driven by a massive, disruptive event - Climate Change! Dr. Julie Anderson is Program Director for the Masters of Science in Sustainability Mgmt. at American University’s Kogod School of Business. She previously held senior leadership roles at top investment firms, including serving as Director and Head of iShares US Sustainable ETFs at BlackRock, where she managed $58 billion in assets and led strategic initiatives across the business. She believes this global megatrend is an opportunity to change the way we think about and choose sustainable investments. Investors should engage with and support companies that produce products in a responsible way that also creates healthy environments. We should focus on creating companies that are more sustainable, more profitable and more competitive because they are managing their Climate risks and opportunities better.

    27 min

  4. 08/10/2025

    How Public & Private Capital Join Forces to Scale Clean Energy Solutions

    My guest in today’s replay of SFP Episode 272 is Marie Clara Buellingen, Head of Sustainable Finance Americas for Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking, one of the largest foreign banking organizations in North America. She is charged with solving the challenges of making public and private capital work together to scale clean energy solutions in the required timelines. The Societe Generale sustainable finance team develops ESG strategies and programs that meet with key stakeholder expectations and best practices such as TCFD, SASB, GRI, UNPRI and the CDP. We talk about approaches to clean energy technology solutions that she has seen work across multiple sectors of the global economy.

    27 min

  5. 08/04/2025

    How to De-Risk & Accelerate Energy Transition Investment Flows in International Markets

    How should energy transition investors and policymakers think about the role of technologies like green hydrogen and energy storage systems, and what policy frameworks are needed to de-risk investment in them that will accelerate the transition? This is especially true of supply chain risks when financing critical minerals projects and nature-based solutions like Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCM). Tokollo Matsabu and Patlong Advisory LLC, work with companies to globally deploy the company’s revolutionary electrolyser technology and make clean, green hydrogen economically viable in international markets. Today, SFP followers will also learn about Patlong’s Advisory role to the Lesotho Foreign Ministry on energy and sustainable finance policy initiatives.

    27 min

  6. 07/27/2025

    How Climate Conscious Companies are Challenging the Insurance Industry

    Insurance carriers are the second largest money management group and one of the most impactful regulatory industries on earth. How is Premiums for the Planet, a membership-based collective action movement, motivating this industry to incorporate more sustainable investment strategies? Join Founder and CEO Brad Stevenson as we discuss how the collective’s companies are challenging the investment practices of their insurance carriers to support the climate adaptation efforts of the collective.

    20 min

  7. 07/20/2025

    Climate Resiliency and Returns Are Not Mutually Exclusive Concepts

    Investors today have to consider sustainability and climate resilience across all asset classes in a diversified portfolio. In this episode, we speak with two professionals from Schroders to hear how these factors are integrated in energy infrastructure and real estate. David Boyce is Head of Schroders Greencoat US, which focuses on renewable energy infrastructure. Craig Morey is the Climate Lead for the Schroders Real Estate team, which makes direct real estate investments across the UK, Europe and Asia. Both of these teams reside inside Schroders Capital, the nearly $100 billion dollar private markets unit of Schroders, which also includes Private Equity, Private Debt & Credit Alternatives. The key message for SFP followers in this episode is that climate resiliency and returns are not mutually exclusive concepts. The current shift to climate resiliency in renewable energy and infrastructure is opening up very attractive investment opportunities, and enhancing current investments.

    45 min

  8. 07/06/2025

    How Sustainable Infrastructure Can Be Financed at Lower Cost and Reduce Carbon Emissions

    For real estate investors and owners, figuring out how to reduce carbon emissions without raising the cost of building new or retrofitting is a major challenge. My guest today, Laura Rapaport, founder and CEO of North Bridge, is leading the way in providing financing that does just that. C-PACE is a long term, fixed-rate credit product secured by a special property assessment, and North Bridge has recently secured a $1 billion commitment from the Carlyle Group to originate C-PACE loans. Rapaport explains how this financing can ensure that resilient and sustainable real estate projects have the flexibility required for completion while reducing carbon emissions and energy consumption and benefiting local economies. All PACE projects to date are expected to reduce carbon emissions by 3 million tons.

    23 min
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Investors and advisors can learn everything they need to know about sustainable finance as Paul Ellis interviews leaders in the field.

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  • Creator
    Paul Ellis
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    209
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    © (2013) - (2021) Paul Ellis Consulting
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    The Sustainable Finance Podcast