Financing the Future

Prudential Transition Plans as Enablers of a Sustainable Future with Frank Elderson

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:54:45 GMT

In the latest episode of Financing the Future, we speak to Frank Elderson, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank to discuss how prudential transition plans can help banks mobilize finance towards the transition, how banks can tackle physical risks going forward, how nature-related risks are being addressed and what is to come next.

Frank discusses how ECB banking supervision has worked intensively with the sector to improve preparedness to manage climate and nature-related risk, addresses what banks are doing well and where more progress in needed. He dives deep into prudential transition plans against the backdrop of the green transition and EU competitiveness, and how financing the gap for transition technologies could help meet the EU’s climate objectives.

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Balancing Risks and Opportunities with Carine Smith Ihenacho

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:00:00 GMT

In this episode of Financing the Future, host Elliott Harris speaks with Carine Smith Ihenacho, Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund.

The conversation explores how long-term investors are navigating geopolitical volatility, regulatory shifts and the evolving ESG landscape while staying focused on financially material sustainability risks. Carine explains why climate risk remains financial risk, why investors must prioritize the issues that truly matter for value creation, and how consistency and long-term thinking are essential in a world of turbulence.

From active ownership and responsible AI to global disclosure standards and the energy transition, this episode examines how one of the world’s most influential investors approaches risk, opportunity and long-term returns.

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Raising Ambition on Climate Finance with Rémy Rioux

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:39:00 GMT

Launching ahead of COP30, join our first podcast episode of Season 2 - Raising Ambition on Climate Finance - featuring Rémy Rioux, CEO of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and Chair of Finance in Common. This first episode will explore how the global financial system can scale high-quality, long-term climate finance using a systems-level approach, new frameworks that can raise ambition and expectations from COP30.

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Why Innovation in sustainability and climate-linked products is essential

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:16:41 GMT

Financing the future: A UNEP FI podcast with the changemakers serving people and planet

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Achieving the SDGs through an impact lens

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:14:28 GMT

Financing the future: A UNEP FI podcast with the changemakers serving people and planet

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Insurance industry collaboration to achieve the SDGs

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:48:55 GMT

Financing the future: A UNEP FI podcast with the changemakers serving people and planet

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How sustainability can become a core value of an organisation with Christine Bergeron, CEO of Vancity

Thu, 25 May 2023 14:43:49 GMT

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Addressing climate risks and adaptation through insurance with Lesley Ndlovu, CEO of Africa Risk Capacity

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:03:00 GMT

Extreme weather events are rapidly increasing in frequency and intensity due to the effects of climate change, making it difficult for insurance companies to manage rising risks and costs. Insurers are now left with no choice but to find ways to weather the storm. In the second episode of UNEP FI’s new podcast series Financing the future, we speak to Lesley Ndlovu, CEO of Africa Risk Capacity (ARC) and member of UNEP FI’s Leadership Council about how Africa is being affected by climate change, ways to manage climate risks and costs, and the role of insurers and the wider finance community in financing adaptation for a resilient future.

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Innovation and technology to scale up ESG with Jessica Tan, Co-CEO of Ping An Group

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 08:44:36 GMT

Increasingly, companies around the world are using non-financial factors like the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices as part of their evaluation process to identify material risks and growth opportunities. In our first Episode of Financing The Future we speak to Ms. Jessica Tan the Co-CEO of Ping An Group, one of the three largest integrated financial groups in China. We discuss how innovation and technology can scale up ESG.

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Exploring intersections between climate and nature

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 13:41:08 GMT

The high-level dialogue between Elizabeth Mrema, Executive Secretary, UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and Koushik Chatterjee, CFO, Tata Steel and member of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) as well as TCFD, focused on the intersections between climate and nature at UNEP FI's Global Roundtable. As nature action rises up in the sustainability agenda, especially in recent years, policymakers and businesses must begin to acknowledge the interdependence between climate and nature. The guests explore the similarities of work and approaches between TCFD and TNFD, and consider how businesses can consider climate and nature as they craft and implement their sustainability strategies.

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Financing a just transition to a sustainable blue economy

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:56:45 GMT

Including social equity considerations in investment decisions and processes is critical for the blue economy to deliver its full potential in addressing global challenges. In this episode, we look at the human dimension of the sustainable blue economy, focusing on the role of financial actors. Five experts from the academic, NGO and finance communities join the conversation, giving insights on how organisations can finance a blue economy that is sustainable, economically viable, and socially equitable.

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CEO dialogue: Shaping a low carbon future

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 12:50:26 GMT

A conversation with Charles Emond, CEO of CDPQ, Guy Cormier, CEO of Desjardins, and Nili Gilbert, Chair of the Investment Committee at the David Rockefeller Fund

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Restoring ocean health through finance

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 11:29:13 GMT

Dennis Fritsch, Sustainable Blue Finance Lead at UNEP FI and Dorothee Herr, Oceans & Climate Change Manager at IUCN discuss ocean health, its role in regulating the global climate, its economic value and the role that financial institutions can play in restoring this vital ecosystem. In this compelling conversation, they also introduce us to UNEP FI’s Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles and IUCN’s Blue Natural Capital Financing Facility, helping financial institutions and project developers take part in a sustainable blue economy.

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The Digital Future of Sustainable Finance

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:15:47 GMT

Marianne Haahr, Executive Director of the Green Digital Finance Alliance spoke to UNEP FI about what "going digital" means in sustainable finance, how FinTech can help with data challenges, automated reporting, disclosure processes as well as innovations in the space to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement.

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Navigating the climate crisis: A conversation with Mark Carney

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 09:28:55 GMT

Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance, spoke to UNEP FI on navigating the climate crisis, climate disclosures, the Principles for Responsible Banking and the UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance.

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