…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…a powerful tool for addressing systemic issues like inequality and climate change, they can’t do it by themselves. The public sector also has a role to play, as do other institutions. You told me a very moving story about an experience…
…believed in engineering fixes. Eccles : Sounds like some things have changed but I guess we’ll get to this later. What was your first job? Klop : I did extended field research in irrigation schemes in Indonesia and Pakistan and got my…
…BlackRock isn’t “doing enough” to address systemic issues such as climate change and inequality. The right thinks BlackRock is “doing too much” and is enforcing a liberal political agenda on its portfolio companies. Needless to say, in…
…first I’d like to lay some conceptual groundwork. Anyone working on climate hears the term “net-zero” all the time. However, I think it would be good to be clear on exactly what this term means. Would you mind explaining what it means…
…at the large family office. When we met impact funds to talk about climate change, they would pull up a graph of top greenhouse gas contributors, point to energy and mobility, and ignore the nearly one-third of the problem that was…
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