ESG Quick Takes
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The SEC's Climate Disclosure Rule on Pause: What Happens Next?
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In April 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission paused the implementation of its recently released climate disclosure rules requiring compa...
NYU Stern Professor Alison Taylor: Higher Ground - How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this new ESG Quick Takes episode, host Isabel Verkes speaks to NYU Stern Professor Alison Taylor, author of the new book ‘Higher Ground: How Busi...
Todd Cort on the links between sustainability metrics and financial performance, and why the debate continues.
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this new ESG Quick Takes episode, host Isabel Verkes speaks to Yale University's Todd Cort on the links between sustainability metrics and financia...
Professor Ioannis Ioannou: Why there is no such thing as a sustainable company (it's complicated...)
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this ESG Quick Takes episode, host Isabel Verkes speaks to Ioannis Ioannou, Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business...
Damilola Ogunbiyi on Clean Energy in Emerging Markets - Anticipating COP28
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Energy access and clean energy development in emerging markets will be at the forefront of COP28 this year. In this episode, ESG Book's Isabel Verkes ...
Tom Gosling: sometimes being virtuous costs money
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What interests and incentives can distinguish greenwashing from “ESG as a sidebar to the main business”, from real progress? Tom is an expert in p...
The next ESG reporting challenge: emerging markets and multi-national conglomerates
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest ESG Quick Takes podcast episode, ESG Book’s Isabel Verkes speaks to Tata Consultancy Service’s Navin Rauniar about how multi-sector...
The role of nature in the corporate climate transition: with WWF-UK CEO Tanya Steele
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest ESG Quick Takes podcast episode, ESG Book’s Isabel Verkes speaks to WWF’s Tanya Steele on the role of nature in the corporate clima...
ESG as common sense: Georg Kell on the future of ESG
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest ESG Quick Takes podcast episode, ESG Book’s Isabel Verkes speaks to Georg Kell, Founding Executive Director of the United Nations Glo...
The ESG Data Market: A US Perspective
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the ESG debate has been heating up in the US, Dow Jones’ Angela Pavlos gives us the perspective of a global media firm with US headquarters. Ange...
Sustainable investing: According to UBS’ Amantia Muhedini
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amantia is the Executive Director of Sustainable and Impact Investing at the UBS Global Wealth Management Chief Investment Office. Prior to UBS, Amant...
ESG policy digest: Regulatory developments that shape the future of ESG and Climate
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the world there have been many sustainable finance policy focused initiatives. This includes rules aiming for greater ESG and climate data ...
Climate Financing with Bond Markets: An Optimistic Perspective from CBI's Sean Kidney
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Kidney is the CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), an international NGO working to mobilize global capital for climate action.Working with ...
ESG Quick Takes 10 - Making an impact through climate VC investing
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Fox-Penner is a partner and Chief Impact Officer at Climate VC firm Energy Impact Partners (EIP), where he directs all ESG and impact measuremen...
ESG Quick Takes 9 - Sustainability goals: a decade of delivery. How Google Cloud is helping corporates with their sustainability journey
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tech companies are known for their low emissions profile, but what about their clients? How can big tech not just improve its own carbon footprint, bu...
ESG Quick Takes 8 - COP27 Debrief: What investors should know.
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
COP27 meetings in Egypt just wrapped up last week, and much has been discussed. Alex Money, was at COP27 and has the latest for us. He is with Oxford ...
ESG Quick Takes 7 - US Climate and Energy Policy is behind
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Samantha Gross is a fellow and director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at The Brookings Institution. Her work is focused on the interse...
ESG Quick Takes 6 - Investing on a Net-Zero Emissions Budget is Investing
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a growing number of investors have Net Zero targets, the question comes up: what does a Net Zero pathway look like?We are talking to climate scenar...
ESG Quick Takes 5 - All the Problems with ESG Investing
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Zurack teaches investing courses at Columbia Business School, and Cornell University, including ESG investing. Prior to this, Zurack worked at Go...
ESG Quick Takes 4 - Decarbonizing Heavy Industry
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is Marian Chertow, Professor of Industrial Environmental Management at Yale University. Prior to Yale, Professor Chertow spent ten...
Quick Take 3 - Making Crypto More Sustainable
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of our Sustainable Finance Quick Takes podcast, we talk about the efforts around making crypto more sustainable. Our guest is Doug Mil...
Quick Take 2 - Taking corporate sustainability local: the case of NYC
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Decoding Sustainable Finance Quick Takes, we look at the role of finance and businesses in local sustainability efforts – zooming...
4 - Navigating the ocean of ESG data
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the fourth episode of Arabesque's Decoding Sustainable Finance, Ulrika is joined by Dr Todd Bridges, Global Head of Sustainable Investing and ESG R...
Quick Take 1 - The Evolving Language of Climate Change
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our first Quick Takes, we look into how we talk about climate change, and how that changed over time. "Climate change" is a loaded term. Its just ...
3 - The Big Disruptor of the Finance Industry
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the third episode of Arabesque's Decoding Sustainable Finance, Ulrika is joined by Yasin Rosowsky, Co-CEO of Arabesque AI, to discuss AI and how it...
2 - The Rise of Climate Investing
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the second episode of Arabesque's Decoding Sustainable Finance, Ulrika is joined by Thomas Schafbauer, Partner at Arabesque Asset Management, to di...
1 - The Evolving Regulatory Landscape
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of Arabesque's Decoding Sustainable Finance, Ulrika is joined by Inna Amesheva, Arabesque Director of ESG Regulatory Solutions, t...