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 • 21 episodes
Financial Climate
Latest Episodes
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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Ep. 19: Law Professors Elizabeth Chamblee Burch and Adam Orford discuss the recent proliferation of major climate lawsuits
In recent years, as climate change has gained attention, there's been a proliferation of climate related lawsuits. They're based on a wide variety of legal theories. Some are brought under federal statutes like the Clean Air Act, others are bro...
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Ep. 18: Attorney and climate entrepreneur Catherine Atkin on California's pathbreaking new greenhouse gas emission disclosure law
The Paris climate agreement was designed to keep Earth habitable through a framework of national emission reduction commitments. But actual binding laws enforcing those commitments are still lagging behind. In response, many corporations have p...
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Ep. 17: Christopher Lowell of InnSure, on how insurance innovations can enable climate tech firms to scale, and help communities adapt to a changing climate
InnSure is a nonprofit organization that fosters insurance-related innovations to address climate problems. Usually, we think of insurance as a tool for climate change adaptation—and it is. But InnSure also lo...
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Ep. 16: Harvard Law and Economics Professor John C. Coates on his new book, The Problem of 12: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything
More than ever before, advocates are pressuring private-sector companies to take action related to climate impacts. One thing that’s increased the potential effectiveness of these tactics is the tremendous concentration of corporate voting powe...
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