Financial Climate
Join host Alex Roth for conversations with the most insightful investors, innovators, and experts at the frontier of climate and finance.
If you’re working to fight climate change, you know finance has become an essential tool. If you’re a finance professional, you know that an understanding of climate risk and the energy transition is becoming indispensable. The connection between climate and finance will only strengthen as we redeploy trillions in capital to keep Earth habitable.
Podcasting since 2022 • 25 episodes
Financial Climate
Latest Episodes
Ep. 24: Catherine Bracy, founder and CEO of TechEquity and Author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy
Like so many things in Silicon Valley, venture capital investment in climate tech is cyclical. Climate tech first gained attention from venture capitalists starting around 2006, thanks in part to legendary venture investor John Doerr. After ini...
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Ep. 23: Climate risk expert Carolyn Kousky on the role of insurance in managing a future of increasingly severe weather disasters
In the U.S., between 2020 and 2024, the total cost of major weather related disasters averaged about $150 billion per year. That’s more than five times the annual average during the 1980s, even after adjusting for inflation. At the same time as...
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Ep. 22: Bill McKibben, climate activist and bestselling author, on the extraordinary promise of solar power and the path forward toward climate stability
Few people are more closely associated with the climate movement than Bill McKibben. In 1989 he published The End of Nature. It was the first popular book for a broad audience on the climate crisis. Over more than 35 years since then, ...
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Ep. 21: Power grid expert Rob Gramlich, on the challenges and opportunities of transmission infrastructure improvement
Anyone paying even a bit of attention to climate solutions knows that we’ve seen in recent years tremendous development of wind and solar power generation. Most people also understand that that development needs to continue, along with deployme...
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Ep. 20: Corporate and securities law expert Emily Strauss on the potential and limitations of climate-related shareholder lawsuits
In the last episode of this show, I had the privilege of talking with Elizabeth Burch and Adam Orford, two law professors from University of Georgia. They helped me to better understand many of the types of climate lawsuits that have proliferat...
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