ESG Quick Takes is a podcast from ESG Book that delves into some of the most pressing issues shaping sustainable finance today. In each episode, host Isabel Verkes interviews experts in ESG, climate, data and technology on the latest trends from across the global sustainability landscape. Isabel is Climate and Sustainable Investing Director at ESG Book.
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The SEC's Climate Disclosure Rule on Pause: What Happens Next? (00:16:34)
In April 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission paused the implementation of its recently released climate disclosure rules requiring companies to report on climate-related risks and emissi...
NYU Stern Professor Alison Taylor: Higher Ground - How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World (00:22:14)
In this new ESG Quick Takes episode, host Isabel Verkes speaks to NYU Stern Professor Alison Taylor, author of the new book ‘Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World’. D...
Todd Cort on the links between sustainability metrics and financial performance, and why the debate continues. (00:24:43)
In this new ESG Quick Takes episode, host Isabel Verkes speaks to Yale University's Todd Cort on the links between sustainability metrics and financial performance. Despite various studies over the pa...
Professor Ioannis Ioannou: Why there is no such thing as a sustainable company (it's complicated...) (00:28:24)
In this ESG Quick Takes episode, host Isabel Verkes speaks to Ioannis Ioannou, Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School, and a world-leading expert in sustainabil...
Damilola Ogunbiyi on Clean Energy in Emerging Markets - Anticipating COP28 (00:17:05)
Energy access and clean energy development in emerging markets will be at the forefront of COP28 this year. In this episode, ESG Book's Isabel Verkes speaks to Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Repre...
Tom Gosling: sometimes being virtuous costs money (00:23:34)
What interests and incentives can distinguish greenwashing from “ESG as a sidebar to the main business”, from real progress? Tom is an expert in practice and theory, having been a senior partner with ...
The next ESG reporting challenge: emerging markets and multi-national conglomerates (00:24:35)
In this latest ESG Quick Takes podcast episode, ESG Book’s Isabel Verkes speaks to Tata Consultancy Service’s Navin Rauniar about how multi-sector and emerging market companies approach ESG differentl...
The role of nature in the corporate climate transition: with WWF-UK CEO Tanya Steele (00:13:56)
In this latest ESG Quick Takes podcast episode, ESG Book’s Isabel Verkes speaks to WWF’s Tanya Steele on the role of nature in the corporate climate transition. In the podcast, Tanya discusses the wor...
ESG as common sense: Georg Kell on the future of ESG (00:19:48)
In this latest ESG Quick Takes podcast episode, ESG Book’s Isabel Verkes speaks to Georg Kell, Founding Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact. In this episode, Georg tells the story ...
The ESG Data Market: A US Perspective (00:12:35)
As the ESG debate has been heating up in the US, Dow Jones’ Angela Pavlos gives us the perspective of a global media firm with US headquarters. Angela is a product manager and leads the development of...
Sustainable investing: According to UBS’ Amantia Muhedini (00:15:11)
Amantia is the Executive Director of Sustainable and Impact Investing at the UBS Global Wealth Management Chief Investment Office. Prior to UBS, Amantia worked at Morgan Stanley’s Investing with Impac...
ESG policy digest: Regulatory developments that shape the future of ESG and Climate (00:20:33)
Throughout the world there have been many sustainable finance policy focused initiatives. This includes rules aiming for greater ESG and climate data transparency and tackling greenwashing in financia...
Climate Financing with Bond Markets: An Optimistic Perspective from CBI's Sean Kidney (00:28:27)
Sean Kidney is the CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), an international NGO working to mobilize global capital for climate action.Working with investors around the world, CBI develops standards...
ESG Quick Takes 10 - Making an impact through climate VC investing (00:22:57)
Peter Fox-Penner is a partner and Chief Impact Officer at Climate VC firm Energy Impact Partners (EIP), where he directs all ESG and impact measurement, helps EIP’s portfolio companies to improve thei...
ESG Quick Takes 9 - Sustainability goals: a decade of delivery. How Google Cloud is helping corporates with their sustainability journey (00:19:45)
Tech companies are known for their low emissions profile, but what about their clients? How can big tech not just improve its own carbon footprint, but also help drive corporate sustainability in othe...
ESG Quick Takes 8 - COP27 Debrief: What investors should know. (00:22:04)
COP27 meetings in Egypt just wrapped up last week, and much has been discussed. Alex Money, was at COP27 and has the latest for us. He is with Oxford University, leading the Innovative Infrastructure ...
ESG Quick Takes 7 - US Climate and Energy Policy is behind (00:13:48)
Samantha Gross is a fellow and director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at The Brookings Institution. Her work is focused on the intersection of energy, environment, and policy. Gross ha...
ESG Quick Takes 6 - Investing on a Net-Zero Emissions Budget is Investing (00:23:16)
As a growing number of investors have Net Zero targets, the question comes up: what does a Net Zero pathway look like?We are talking to climate scenario wizard Sven Teske, who researches energy decarb...
ESG Quick Takes 5 - All the Problems with ESG Investing (00:20:12)
Mark Zurack teaches investing courses at Columbia Business School, and Cornell University, including ESG investing. Prior to this, Zurack worked at Goldman Sachs for 18 years where he started Goldman’...
ESG Quick Takes 4 - Decarbonizing Heavy Industry (00:20:15)
This week’s guest is Marian Chertow, Professor of Industrial Environmental Management at Yale University. Prior to Yale, Professor Chertow spent ten years in environmental business and state and local...
Quick Take 3 - Making Crypto More Sustainable (00:17:18)
In this episode of our Sustainable Finance Quick Takes podcast, we talk about the efforts around making crypto more sustainable. Our guest is Doug Miller who is working on renewable energy solutions f...
Quick Take 2 - Taking corporate sustainability local: the case of NYC (00:09:14)
In this episode of Decoding Sustainable Finance Quick Takes, we look at the role of finance and businesses in local sustainability efforts – zooming in on NYC. Our guest is Marianna Koval from NYU Ste...
4 - Navigating the ocean of ESG data (00:40:23)
In the fourth episode of Arabesque's Decoding Sustainable Finance, Ulrika is joined by Dr Todd Bridges, Global Head of Sustainable Investing and ESG Research at Arabesque S-Ray, to discuss how to navi...
Quick Take 1 - The Evolving Language of Climate Change (00:09:56)
For our first Quick Takes, we look into how we talk about climate change, and how that changed over time. "Climate change" is a loaded term. Its just two words, but people have very different connotat...
3 - The Big Disruptor of the Finance Industry (00:25:12)
In the third episode of Arabesque's Decoding Sustainable Finance, Ulrika is joined by Yasin Rosowsky, Co-CEO of Arabesque AI, to discuss AI and how it is transforming the world of finance.
