The Green Team Speaks to David Craig

The Green Team Speaks to Gwen Yu

Andy Morimoto (Director of Research, Paulson Institute and Policy Fellow, Green Finance) welcomes Gwen Yu (Executive Director, Global Markets Sustainability Center) to the Green Team Speaks to podcast. They discuss climate-related financial risks, the role of financial institutions and government policy in addressing climate change, and the business risks of biodiversity loss. Yu shares how she came to focus on sustainable finance, how financial technologies can help address climate change, and what trends give her hope in combatting the climate and biodiversity crises.

The Green Team Speaks to David Craig

Deborah Lehr (Vice Chairman and Executive Director of the Paulson Institute) welcomes David Craig (Co-Chair at the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), founder and former CEO of Refinitiv, and an executive fellow at London Business School) to the Green Team Speaks to podcast. They discuss biodiversity loss, the role of data in addressing the twin biodiversity and climate crises, and the importance of developing and delivering a risk management and disclosure framework for organizations to report and act on evolving nature-related risks.

The Green Team Speaks to Kunal Khatri

Deborah Lehr (Vice Chairman and Executive Director of the Paulson Institute) welcomes Kunal Khatri (Deputy HM Trade Commissioner for the USA) to the Green Team Speaks to podcast. They discuss green finance progress in the UK and China, ESG developments, and financial innovations. He shares his experiences working in the US, the UK, and China facilitating trade and communication among these countries and the policies and financial innovations he thinks could be most helpful in addressing climate and biodiversity simultaneously. This interview was recorded on April 6. The currency discussed is pounds sterling.

The Green Team Speaks to Fiona Stewart

Phylicia Wu (Director, Green Finance Center, Paulson Institute) welcomes Fiona Stewart (Lead Financial Sector Specialist, Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation, World Bank) to the Green Team Speaks to podcast. They discuss the twin biodiversity and climate crises, sustainability-linked bonds, and the green shift in the financial system.

The Green Team Speaks to Carlos Manuel Rodriguez

Phylicia Wu (Director, Paulson Institute) welcomes Carlos Manuel Rodriguez (CEO and Chairperson, The Global Environment Facility) to the Green Team Speaks to podcast. They discuss nature conservation, public and private action on the biodiversity financing gap, and his experience working on environmental policy in Costa Rica.