Sustainable Growth Podcast - All episodes

The LSEG Sustainable Growth Podcast tackles important topics which intersect sustainability and finance, hosted by Jane Goodland, LSEG’s Group Head of Sustainability. We hear from leading experts about some of today's biggest topics – including climate transition, green infrastructure, carbon markets, financial inclusion and much more. We hear from leading experts from Microsoft, ISSB, IIGCC, Blackrock, IFAD, Women's World Banking, Climate Impact Partners, Planet Tracker, First Abu Dhabi Bank, London School of Economics – and many more.

  1. Season 11
  2. Season 10
  3. Season 9
  4. Season 8
  5. Season 7

Season 11

Episode 1 Season 11

The trust gap: Why rising insularity matters for business

Richard Edelman, CEO of global communications firm Edelman breaks down the key findings of the 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer, exploring how insularity—the theme of this year’s report—is impacting workplaces, consumer behaviour and economic sentiment.
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Season 10

Episode 1 Season 10

Clare Brook: Turning the tides on overfishing

With just 8% of oceans protected, how can we bridge this gap? Kicking off season 10, Clare Brook, CEO of Blue Marine Foundation, shares how policy engagement and investigative work are bringing them closer to their goal of protecting 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030.
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Episode 2 Season 10

Feeding the future: the hidden benefits of the school meal

In this episode, Donald Bundy, Professor of epidemiology and development at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, delves into the economic and social benefits of school meals programmes, and explains how the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition, the research initiative of the School Meals Coalition, is working internationally to improve and accelerate school meal programmes globally.
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Episode 3 Season 10

Perception vs reality: Sustainable investment risk in emerging markets

In this episode, Shami Nissan, Partner at Actis, talks about investment risk and opportunities in emerging markets, determining what makes a data centre sustainable and the importance of relationship-building as an investor. Shami also shares insights from some of their investments, including a renewable energy project so large that it will be viewable from space.
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Episode 4 Season 10

Human capital: AI literacy and the green skills deficit

How is AI transforming the world of work? In this episode, Janine Chamberlin, Country Manager, UK and Vice President, Global Clients at LinkedIn talks to us about trending workplace skills and provides insight into the fastest growing jobs globally, the increased demand for green skills and the importance of AI literacy. Janine also explains the value of human skills and how we can adapt to change through learning.
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Episode 5 Season 10

Sustainable finance: A very different regulatory approach

In this episode, Mark Manning, Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics, explains how Mark Carney's seminal 2015 speech and the TCFD's 2017 recommendations paved the way for the development of sustainability related disclosure standards. Mark also discusses what makes sustainable finance regulation different, how regulators are engaging with climate transition planning and what's in store for sustainable finance regulation in the next five years.
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Episode 6 Season 10

Environment under review: AI's risks and opportunities

In this episode, Sally Radwan, Chief Digital Officer of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) delves into the environmental impact AI has outside of energy consumption, ranging from e-waste disposal to the construction and location of data centres. On the flip side, Sally explains the positive environmental impacts of AI including how it can support policymaker decision making, provide accurate information about environmental science and detect methane emission hotspots early on.
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Episode 7 Season 10

Blue bonds and electrified fleets: Decarbonising the supply chain

In this episode, Carlin Naidoo, Group Director of Sustainability at DP World, explains their sustainable finance framework and why they issued a blue bond as a global logistics company. As well as discussing how DP World is contributing to the UN SDGs, Carlin brings to life how their key strategic partnerships are driving long-term value creation, from investing in electrified fleets to researching fuel alternatives.
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Episode 8 Season 10

Regenerative agriculture: Connecting farmers to the supply chain

What’s the perfect enabling environment for regenerative agriculture? In the latest episode of the LSEG Sustainable Growth podcast, Salar Shemirani, CEO and Co-founder of Regenified, explains the benefits of regenerative farming, the systemic supply chain issues it could solve and why farmers and brands are increasingly getting on board.
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Episode 9 Season 10

The sustainable bond market: Benefits beyond the greenium

How big is the sustainable bond market? To mark the 10th anniversary of London's Sustainable Bond Market, Shrey Kohli, Head of Debt Capital Markets at the London Stock Exchange joins us to discuss its history, how the market has developed, and the benefits of green bonds for both investors and issuers. Shrey also explores the different segments that make up London's Sustainable Bond Market and the benefits beyond the greenium.
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Episode 10 Season 10

How satellite technology is reducing methane emissions

How can satellite technology help reduce methane emissions? This episode, Daniel Wicks and Jessica Callaghan, Managing Director and Global Director, Financial Services at GHGSat explain this, delving into how the technology works and how specific customer groups, including financial services, are applying GHGSat's real-time data.
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Episode 11 Season 10

Eurasia Group: How geopolitics are recalibrating climate finance

As geopolitical volatility rises, is sustainable finance entering a new phase? In this episode of the LSEG Sustainable Growth podcast, Franck Gbaguidi, Practice Head, Sustainability at Eurasia Group joins us in-person to discuss how sustainability policy volatility is impacting their clients, how attitudes towards adaptation are changing and the outlook for climate finance.
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Episode 12 Season 10

When one size doesn't fit all: ABSA's social lens on sustainability in Africa

What does a ‘just transition’ really mean in practice? In this episode of the LSEG Sustainable Growth podcast, Punki Modise, Group Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer at ABSA Group discusses the link between sustainability and long-term value creation, how they are measuring social impact and the current challenges facing sustainable finance in Africa.
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Episode 13 Season 10

Creating a common language: Taxonomies as a tool for transparency

Can taxonomies help create a new asset class? In this episode, Alfonso García Mora, Regional Vice President for Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) shares how the organisation mobilises private capital to support sustainable development in emerging markets.
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Episode 14 season 10

Holding a mirror up to the market: How the UN works with stock exchanges

In this episode, Anthony Miller, Chief Coordinator of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative (UN SSE), explains how the UN partners with exchanges worldwide to encourage sustainable investment. He also discusses the London Stock Exchange's unique approach to voluntary carbon markets and unpacks the key issues he believes capital markets are underestimating today.
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Episode 15 season 10

Mapping climate risk: Insights from LSEG’s COP30 Net Zero Atlas

How could physical climate risk impact economies? In this episode of the LSEG Sustainable Growth podcast, Jaakko Kooroshy, Global Head of Sustainable Investment Research at LSEG unpacks key insights from our COP30 Net Zero Atlas, an annual report assessing exposure to key climate hazards and capturing the state of climate risk.
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Episode 16 Season 10

Big deals: financing future energy demand

Can clean energy investment outpace fossil fuel demand? In this episode, Ben Daly, Head of Transition Finance at Standard Chartered, explores how capital is fueling large-scale decarbonisation projects across the globe—from the first wave of carbon capture to gigafactories powering electric vehicles. Ben also unpacks the critical role of electrification, policy innovation and regional motivations in shaping the future of the energy transition.
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Episode 17 Season 10

The global race for resources: Redefining mining for sustainable growth

How can mining become safer and more sustainable? From the hard lessons of Brazil’s Brumadinho disaster to bold investor-led initiatives, Adam Matthews, Chief Responsible Investment Officer at the Church of England Pensions Board and Chair of the Global Investor Commission on Mining 2030 shares what it takes to align finance, industry, and governments for long-term value creation.
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Season 9

Speaker: Tony Goldner

Episode 1 season 9

TNFD: Recommendations for a greener future

The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), a global initiative delivering a risk management and disclosure framework for nature-related risks.
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Episode 2 season 9

Nick Robins: What do we mean by a ‘just’ climate transition?

In this episode, Nick Robins, Professor in Practice of Sustainable Finance at London School of Economics discusses what a just climate transition looks like, the importance of putting people at the heart of transition plans and why this has recently become a priority.
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Episode 3 Season 9

David Atkin: Reimagining responsible investment, unveiling PRI's evolution

David Atkin, CEO of the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), joins us this episode to discuss how PRI has evolved its strategic plans and received so much support from the investor community since its launch in 2006.
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Episode 4 season 9

Jaakko Kooroshy: Solving the Scope 3 conundrum

Jaakko Kooroshy, Global Head of Sustainable Investment Research at LSEG, unpacks the report’s findings including why Scope 3 emissions are so important for companies to measure and for investors to understand.
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Episode 5 Season 9

Robert Eccles: Pinpointing the material issues in ESG

In this episode, Robert Eccles, Visiting Professor of Management Practice at Saïd Business School, Oxford University, dives into materiality, the distinction between sustainability and ESG and why views on ESG are so polarised in the US.
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Episode 6 Season 9

Yuki Yasui: Mind the data gap, net zero transition planning in APAC

In this episode, Yuki Yasui, Managing Director of the Asia Pacific Network of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) delves into the key focus areas, challenges and goals for the recently launched network.
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Episode 7 Season 9

Carine Smith Ihenacho: Responsible investing as a sovereign wealth fund

Carine Smith Ihenacho, Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management, joins us in this episode to discuss how they are generating returns in a responsible and transparent way including climate action plans, the importance of a long term outlook, and ESG risk management strategies.
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Episode 8 season 9

Alison Taylor: The evolving role of the Chief Sustainability Officer

How can a Chief Sustainability Officer role become more powerful? In the latest episode of the LSEG Sustainable Growth podcast, Alison Taylor, Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Stern School of Business, discusses the four key changes needed for the role of the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO), avoiding siloed thinking around sustainability and common mistakes companies are making around ESG.
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Episode 9 Season 9

Tim Hodgson: Systemic risk and the future of the investment industry

In this episode, Tim Hodgson, Co- Founder of the Thinking Ahead Institute, chats with us about the institute’s mission and their aim to change the investment industry for the end user by focusing on sustainability & long-term investing. We hear about the importance of working with asset owners and the findings from their Asset Owner Peer Study.
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Episode 10 Season 9

Dr Celine Herweijer: How HSBC is shaping transition policy

In the episode of the LSEG Sustainable Growth podcast, Dr Celine Herweijer, HSBC's Group Chief Sustainability Officer, explains how HSBC’s transition plan was brought to life and why they strive to become climate tech pioneers. As a climate scientist, Celine also gives us her perspective on the key hurdles that could stop us reaching net zero.
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Episode 11 season 9

Justin Keeble: AI for impact, Google’s carbon free push

In what ways can artificial intelligence help companies address sustainability challenges? In this episode, Justin Keeble, Managing Director for Global Sustainability at Google Cloud delves into Google’s sustainability strategy, why sustainability is a data challenge, and how AI could significantly mitigate climate risk. Justin also explains their partnership with HSBC and what is next for Google.
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Episode 12 season 9

Sindhu Krishna: Portfolio resilience and sustainability challenges

In this episode of the LSEG Sustainable Growth podcast, Sindhu Krishna, Head of Sustainable Investment at Phoenix Group, the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business, talks about the importance of sustainability from an asset owner’s perspective, how sustainability challenges impact the resilience of portfolios, and how they are decarbonising portfolios.
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Episode 13 season 9

Constance Chalchat: Ramping up climate adaptation finance

In this episode, Constance Chalchat, Chief Sustainability Officer at BNP Paribas discusses why adaptation measures are so important for mitigating climate risk, her perspective on the carbon markets and what needs to happen to close the climate transition gap in developing and emerging economies.
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Episode 14 season 9

Tim Gould: The final decade of growth for fossil fuels

In this episode, Tim Gould, Chief Energy Economist at the International Energy Agency (IEA), discusses how their energy security mandate has broadened over the past 50 years and what the slowdown in oil and gas demand could mean for clean energy investment trends.
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Episode 15 season 9

Claudia Kruse: Addressing climate and biodiversity expectations through stewardship

Claudia Kruse, Chief Sustainability and Strategy Officer at APG Asset Management, talks to us about APG’s responsible investment philosophy and approach, how she sees companies integrating sustainability within their corporate governance frameworks and why engagement with portfolio companies is key to addressing climate and biodiversity expectations.
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Episode 16 season 9

Sophie Flak: Profitable impact as the new mainstream asset class

In this episode, Sophie Flak, Executive Board Member at Eurazeo explains their science-based approach including their impact funds, the data they look for when looking at the impact of prospective companies and why we are in a new generation of impact investment.
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Episode 17 season 9

Jaakko Kooroshy: The real impact of climate goals on global cities

How prepared are major G20 cities for physical climate risk? This episode, Jaakko Kooroshy, Global Head of Sustainable Research at LSEG, unpacks the findings from LSEG's COP29 Net Zero Atlas report including what emissions targets the G20 are expected to set, particularly the US following the presidential election, and how these targets matter for investors.
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Episode 18 season 9

Nick Mabey: How COP changed the geopolitical game

In this episode, Nick Mabey, Founder and CEO of the independent climate change think tank E3G, explains why COP is the biggest media moment of the year on climate. Nick covers the COP process including the role of geopolitics in climate cooperation, how the agreements reached will impact our everyday lives in the next five years and the tough compromises made at COP29 in Baku.
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Episode 19 season 9

Karen Ellis: The economic cost of nature overexploitation

Are we close to the tipping point for ecosystems and the economy? This episode, Karen Ellis, Chief Economist at WWF, speaks to us about nature risk and how the overexploitation of natural resources could impact economies around the globe.
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Season 8

Episode 1 Season 8

Wildlife trafficking: why is it so hard to stop?

In this episode, Richard Scobey, Executive Director of TRAFFIC talks to us about the shocking scale of illegal wildlife markets.
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Speaker: Helen Lees-Jones

Episode 2 Season 8

Transition investing: How mega forces will shape the future

Explore how the energy transition will impact future investment opportunities in this episode. Discover BlackRock's transition investing strategies.
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Speaker: Craig Foster

Episode 3 Season 8

Day Zero: Is our water infrastructure at risk?

Rising populations and water consumption mean the likelihood that water demand will outstrip the supply, also known as Day Zero, is much greater.
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Episode 4 Season 8

Reducing complexity in financial reporting

Discover the purpose and rapid development of ISSB's newly launched sustainability reporting standards, explained by Sue Lloyd, Vice Chair of ISSB.
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Episode 5 Season 8

ESG ratings: the good, the bad and the ugly

In this episode, Florian Berg, Research Scientist at MIT and co-founder of the Aggregate Confusion Project delves into the topic, talking about how ESG ratings have evolved, their strengths and weaknesses, and whether measurement creates tangible outcomes.
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Episode 6 Season 8

Banking gone green: The UAE's commitment to net zero

In this episode, Sarah Pirzada Usmani, Managing Director, Head of Loan Capital Markets & Sustainable Finance at FAB discusses how they began to focus on sustainable finance.
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Episode 7 Season 8

Harvesting hope: tackling poverty and hunger

In this episode, Alvaro Lario, President of IFAD, discusses how they decide where to invest, how they measure impact, and which projects they are funding.
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Speakers: David Harris and Adrian Rimmer

Episode 8 season 8

The COP episode

In this episode we hear about the latest COP agreement and the transition away from fossil fuels, how the conference has increased its focus on private companies and the finance sector, and what this means for Exchanges across the world.
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Season 7

Speaker: Jesica Andrews

Episode 1 Season 7

How is the UN helping to achieve Net Zero?

With COP 27 taking place this week it's a perfect time to get into the UN's many efforts in aligning countries and company goals to achieve net zero.
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Episode 2 Season 7

Who's winning in the race to Net Zero? - The Green Room

Jaakko dives into our latest report 'COP 27 Net Zero Atlas'. Find out what countries are doing globally to meet the targets set by the Paris Agreement back in 2015.
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Episode 3 Season 7

Potholes on the Road to Sustainable Infrastructure – The Green Room

Darrenth shared some of the findings of LSEG's latest 'Potholes on the Road to Sustainable Infrastructure' report, which highlights some of the major trends driving the current sustainable infrastructure investment marketplace.
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Speakers: Wale Shonibare and Ibukun Adebayo

Episode 4 Season 7

The post COP27 round up

What does the ‘transition’ to clean energy or more importantly access to energy look like for Africa? What types of funding are we seeing, and where is it coming from?
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Speaker: Lisa Zelljadt

Episode 5 Season 7

Are we double counting emission reductions? – The Green Room

This article brings to light the issues of emission reductions being double counted. Find out what this means for countries.
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Episode 6 Season 7

The world of Sustainable Finance in APAC

Jane & Helena get stuck into the nuances of SFI in the APAC region. Find out how sustainable investing is framed country by country.
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Episode 7 Season 7

Why stewardship is an essential part of the investment toolkit

Jenn-Hui takes us through the principles of long termism, the materiality spectrum and the complete stewardship toolbox.
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Speaker: Lily Dai

Episode 8 Season 7

A deep dive on green taxonomies and why they matter

What is really meant by “green” and what is a “green taxonomy”? Who determines what is a green product or service and what isn’t?
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Episode 9 Season 7

Boosting transparency with a new voluntary carbon market framework

Richard and Claire define what voluntary carbon market designations are, its main objectives, how the credibility of these carbon credits is verified.
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Episode 10 Season 7

Why climate risk is a wake-up call for investors

Stephanie also explains how IIGCC enables investors to address and manage climate risks, how much progress has been made in the past two decades.
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Episode 11 Season 7

Reducing a billion tonnes of CO2: the journey ahead

Sheri explains the process and scale of carbon offsetting and talks about how diverse these projects can be.
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Episode 12 Season 7

Is passive now massive? Adapting sustainable investment approaches

Aled explains about the range of sustainability metrics seen in different indexes and how they are evolving to meet ever-changing investor needs.
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Episode 13 Season 7

Why are women poorer than men? Closing the gender wealth gap through financial inclusion

Mary Ellen Iskenderian explains about what exactly we mean by financial inclusion, why women are a large focus for their financial inclusion efforts.
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Episode 14 Season 7

Going carbon negative: the mission to surpass carbon neutral and go beyond carbon

Musidora explains why their focus is not just on carbon and delves deep into how Microsoft is supporting sustainability efforts through technology.
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Speaker: John Willis

Episode 15 Season 7

Exploring nature and biodiversity: tracking the environmental footprint for financial Institutions

Explore the significance of nature for financial institutions and the possibility of measuring companies' nature footprint, beyond their carbon footprint.
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