Richard Howitt

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582 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 29 Jul

Richard Howitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Frankly Speaking - A Podcast on Responsible Business · #112 Nathalie Dogniez & Julian Toth: What Is the Current State of Responsible Investment? · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

In this podcast, we've heard that there has been a pushback on responsible investment, but Natalie talked about a soft landing voice-verified

Uh and both of our our guests talked about no fundamental change of i approach in terms of how investors are actually making their investment decisions. voice-verified

Although Natalie did say that the public perception does matter uh in terms of what companies say that dreaded word. voice-verified

Greenhashing hasn't been said till now, but it's definitely voice-verified

uh out there. voice-verified

We've heard uh about the um potential investment in def uh defence being voice-verified

responsible or not responsible. voice-verified

It's a complicated matter that USF have uh um uh looked at the nuances of so do look at their paper if you're interested in that. voice-verified

Um but there are still some fixed points, for example cluster munitions are definitely excluded. voice-verified

We heard uh from Julian about how uh investors and the markets wanted case studies voice-verified

To show how responsible investment is working, uh and that that then that it's not a burden, uh and that that has been really effective in Czechia and within the region. voice-verified

We discussed the uh European legislative developments on SFDR sustainable finance disclosure regulation. voice-verified

Natalie asked for uh for very clear and more robust criteria. voice-verified

Uh in level two. voice-verified

And in terms of the omnibus, she talked about the dream of having common data having faded away and that the data points now included in European Sustainability Reporting Standards, ESRS being the quote bare minimum. voice-verified

But both of our speakers talked positively at the end. voice-verified

Uh Julian talked about uh a responsible investment now being seen as a strategic tool, uh that it is about the resilience of the company, about how far the company is future fit, and it is in his words about alpha producing returns. voice-verified

And Natalie talked about voice-verified

uh the fact that the responsible investment sector is much advanced even than two years ago. voice-verified

Uh both of our speakers talked about a slowdown but not a reverse. voice-verified

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