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Episode 90 | July 27, 2020

Bruce Herbert: Using Shareholder Engagement to Change Corporate Behavior

with Bruce Herbert, CEO of Newground Social Investment, SPC & Investor Voice, SPC

Herbert is an independent shareholder advocate, and a pioneer in the field beginning in the 90s when he served on the national governing board with the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR). He talks in detail about the engagement process and how to convert an adversarial approach into a conversation that brings results, including working […]

Episode 89 | July 20, 2020

Rocky Mountain Institute and the Banking Sector Unite on Climate Finance

with Radhika Lalit, Director, Center for Climate Aligned-Finance, Rocky Mountain Institute

Lalit talks about Rocky Mountain Institute’s new Center for Climate-Aligned Finance, which is bringing the financial sector to the table to evaluate how to bring their portfolios into alignment with a zero-carbon future. The Center is collaborating with Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and other partners to develop an engagement […]

Episode 88 | July 7, 2020

Putting Gender on the Agenda through Public & Private Market Partnerships

with Vicky Lay, Managing Director, Head of Impact Investing at Artesian (Alternative Investments)

Lay co-creates investment strategies like the Women’s Economic Empowerment Bond Fund and SheSyndicate Foundation to bridge global gender gaps in impact partnership with the United Nations Capital Development Fund and Equileap. She brings capital, human endeavor and innovation together in partnerships dedicated to women’s economic empowerment.

Episode 87 | June 22, 2020

Schroder’s ESG Funds Are Outperforming the Competition

with Katherine Davidson, Portfolio Manager/Global Sector Specialist at Schroders

Davidson explains how those corporations with good customer relationships and more sustainable corporate cultures pre-pandemic are more resilient during the pandemic, starting at the Board level and including a strong investment in their employees.

Episode 86 | June 10, 2020

Sustainalytics Taxonomy Expands to Address Emerging Social Challenges

with Heather Lang, Executive Director, Sustainable Finance Solutions at Sustainalytics

Program recorded May 7, 2020: Lang explains how governments, international and local banking systems, are working with Sustainalytics’ Sustainable Finance Solutions to issue sustainability bonds and loans to address two areas that are being particularly hard hit by COVID-19: Health Care and Socio-economic Impact Mitigation. She notes that the recent uptick in social bond issuance […]

Episode 85 | June 2, 2020

Next Gen Advisor Steers Resilient Course During the Pandemic

with Noel Pacarro Brown, CIMA, CPWA, The Conscious Wealth Management Group & First Vice President at Morgan Stanley

A Forbes Top Next Gen Wealth Advisor and 2nd generation Managing Partner in the practice founded by her mother, Brown works with institutions, family offices and high net worth individuals. As co-chair of the Consulting Group Advisory Council at Morgan Stanley, Brown regularly speaks and writes about practice management for financial advisors. We also talked […]

Episode 84 | May 27, 2020

Impact Fund Targets Advanced Technologies in US & Latin America

with TONY SAXTON: Co-Managing Partner, Terra Impact Fund; Founder & Managing Partner, Terra Group Holdings. PAUL SAVOLDELLI: Co-Managing Partner, Terra Impact Fund; CEO, Americas Management Group

The Terra Impact Fund uses private equity capital to target growth of sustainable technologies across multiple economic sectors in the US and Latin America, like ecotourism, sustainable agriculture, and waste-to-biofuel energy. We talked about their innovative partnership: Saxton finds new opportunities and Savoldelli provides the infrastructure to manage and scale up the new businesses. For […]

Episode 83 | May 18, 2020

Envision Solar: Easy, Fast, Scalable EV Charging Solutions

with Desmond Wheatley, President, CEO & Chairman of the Board at Envision Solar

Envision Solar International produces sustainable technology innovations for EV charging, outdoor media, and energy security. Wheatley explains how Envision’s portable charging stations are completely self-contained, and require no permits, installation or customer contact during delivery.

Episode 82 | May 11, 2020

Trucost Analyzes S&P Global’s Climate Risk

with Rochele J. March, Manager, ESG innovation and Analytics at Trucost, part of S&P Global

Trucost is the sustainability analytics division of S&P. In 2019 March and her team did the first analysis of S&P Global using TCFD (Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures) metrics to look at S&P Global’s physical and transition risks related to climate change. March discusses the findings.

Episode 81 | May 5, 2020

Janet Wong: Advancing Diversity in the Boardroom

with Janet Wong, CPA and Board Member of the Thirty Percent Coalition

Minority women are responsible for 40% of consumer spending in the U.S., but they make up only 2% of corporate board membership. Wong, a retired partner with KPMG, works with numerous high powered gender and minority focused nonprofits to advocate for bringing more diversity into the boardroom.