Euromoney Podcasts: Financing a sustainable planet

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Euromoney Podcasts: Financing a sustainable planet

Humanity is confronting huge challenges. Climate change, population growth, technological innovations alongside growing inequality, geopolitical shifts, and more.Urgent and large scale help from the financial sector is needed and banks, investment managers and pension funds are beginning to rise to the challenge. This series will look at the innovative solutions they are creating so that capital is directed towards addressing the problems our planet faces. If industrialisation, consumption and the growth economy have led us to the brink, can sustainable finance help pull us back?

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  1. 2019/12/11

    Resilient Cities

    Across the globe, cities are growing at an unprecedented rate and are now home to the majority of the world’s population. By 2050, it’s estimated that two out of three people worldwide will live in cities.They are engines of growth, but also fragile places, where the pressures of population density are keenly felt. Global emissions reached an all-time high in 2018, and the air above cities such as Delhi is growing ever more polluted. The global temperature rise caused by those emissions ...

    32 分钟
  2. Financing the energy transition

    2019/11/18

    Financing the energy transition

    The Danish energy company Ørsted is known to many by its previous name, Dong Energy. In 2017, the decision was made to rebrand the business after the Danish scientist Hans Christian Ørsted, and for a simple reason: Dansk Olie og Naturgas A/S no longer owned any assets in either oil or natural gas. The change was massive for a company that at one point ran coal, oil and natural gas power stations responsible for half of Denmark’s CO₂ emissions, not to mention those resulting from the oil and g...

    31 分钟
  3. Rethinking the refugee crisis

    2019/10/16

    Rethinking the refugee crisis

    What is the cost of a refugee crisis? Across the globe, each day, people are forced to flee their homes in the face of persecution, discrimination and insecurity. Families are split, livelihoods ruined and incomes and official identities lost. The human cost is incalculable. Yet for those determined to support the world’s refugees, it is essential to understand the scale of the task at hand if they are to source and allocate the resources needed to return people to dignity, stability and even...

    32 分钟
  4. Blue Finance - Helping save our seas

    2019/09/13

    Blue Finance - Helping save our seas

    For generations humanity has taken more from the oceans than it puts back in. Today, man’s contribution to the seas is significant, but damaging. Overfishing has decimated entire species and what is left swims amid clouds of plastic waste so dense that it gathers in vast floating islands. Increased carbon emissions have increased sea temperatures, melting polar regions and cooking corals worldwide - by 2030 90% of coral reefs will be threatened with extinction. Can the crisis be averted?...

    30 分钟
  5. Greening the economy

    2019/07/15

    Greening the economy

    Euromoney explores the ways in which developing countries are funding, building and maintaining critical infrastructure in harmony with the UN’s sustainability goals.Led by China, Asia saw the highest growth rate in the green bond market in 2018, as well as the highest number of new issuers. Meanwhile, the $34bn in Chinese green bond issuance in 2018 represents a remarkable change of outlook for the world’s biggest contributor to CO2 emissions.Green bonds like these have shown the way forward...

    32 分钟
  6. Profit meets purpose

    2019/06/21

    Profit meets purpose

    In this opening episode of a 6-part series on Financing a sustainable planet, Euromoney explores where the balance should lie between profit and purpose. We examine whether sustainable finance can be used as a force to address the environmental and social challenges we face.Have we reached a tipping point where it is no longer acceptable to make any kind of profit without first considering its impact on the planet and the people who live on it?Sustainability is becoming a watch word, though t...

    29 分钟
  7. Financing a sustainable planet: trailer

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    Financing a sustainable planet: trailer

    Humanity is confronting huge challenges. Climate change, population growth, technological innovations alongside growing inequality, geopolitical shifts, and more. What is the role of the financial industry in addressing these monumental issues? How can we best put capital to work in service of the planet? Can sustainable finance help us transition to a sustainable planet?These are just some of the questions we’re going to be asking in this Euromoney podcast series 'Financing a sustainable pla...

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Humanity is confronting huge challenges. Climate change, population growth, technological innovations alongside growing inequality, geopolitical shifts, and more.Urgent and large scale help from the financial sector is needed and banks, investment managers and pension funds are beginning to rise to the challenge. This series will look at the innovative solutions they are creating so that capital is directed towards addressing the problems our planet faces. If industrialisation, consumption and the growth economy have led us to the brink, can sustainable finance help pull us back?

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