…Lehman Brothers. I went back to Asia to become CFO for Singapore Exchange and then joined a hedge fund as COO that was spun out of a commercial bank. In 2009 I joined the Asian Development Banks (ADB) in Manila as director for private…
…management. Sacha led a number of important initiatives regarding climate and sustainability issues more generally. We’ve kept in touch over the years. In a recent call, I pitched him the idea of doing an interview with me and he…
…can be addressed by the company itself. But often system-level changes must be made through collective action, regulations, and laws. We need to be realistic about companies can and can’t do to make the world a better place.…
…some very good work being done on conservatives on the topic of climate change. Thanks to my good friend Tim Doyle, one of my partners-in-crime on the ESG Culture Wars, I was introduced to Heather Reams, the President of Citizens for…
…got out of college. How did your time there shape your interest in climate change and what were you able to accomplish? Cashion : IFC has really been a leader in terms of impact investing and environmental, social, and governance, or…
…ESG is insufficient for addressing major societal issues such as climate change; critics on the right say ESG pushes a liberal agenda. The barrage of criticism has caused ESG to lose its luster among many executives. Yet the need for…
…the left (e.g., CalPERS isn’t doing enough to save the world from climate change and to promote DEI) and the right (e.g., CalPERS is pursuing a progressive liberal agenda on topics like climate change and DEI). What both critics fail…
…make money, the impact of gas prices on electricity prices, how changes in the supply stack affect intermittency and grid stability. After banking, I went to work at the family office of Sam Zell, a great investor whom we lost in the…
…Bob—working with corporate and investor leaders to demonstrate how climate change and inequality are material to their bottom lines and taking that work to governments and international institutions in addition to market players.…
…on the differences between liberals and conservatives regarding climate change, and the origins of the ACC. Here we discuss in more detail the theory of change of the ACC, how it is implementing it, its progress to date, and its…
…they won’t they?” question. The same cannot be said for the SEC’s climate disclosure rule. The ink was barely dry on it being passed when lawsuits were launched from the right (e.g., the US Chamber of Commerce and a number of red state…
…2023and the firm recently expanded into new asset classes: Credit, Climate investing with its inaugural fund, BeyondNetZero, and a few weeks ago we announced an agreement to acquire Actis, a leading global sustainable infrastructure…
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