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?
Episodes
7 episodes
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 ...
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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...
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Episode 5
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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. ...
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Episode 4
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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 de...
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Episode 3
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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 marke...
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Episode 2
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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 enviro...
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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?...
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