All Podcast articles – Page 5
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PodcastThe need for urgent action on climate
Waking up to science – how COVID-19 has highlighted the urgent need for action on climate change.
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PodcastPutting the SDGs into practice in infrastructure investing
In this episode of the PRI podcast, the head of our infrastructure workstream, Simon Whistler, speaks to Stanley Kwong from Aviva Investors’ real assets business about how they integrate the Sustainable Development Goals into their investment process.
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PodcastThe PRI quarterly update, ft. Lorenzo Saa, Chief Signatory Relations Officer
Join Lorenzo Saa, the PRI’s Chief Responsible Investment Officer, in this quarterly update episode of the PRI podcast. In this episode, Lorenzo runs through key updates from the PRI.
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PodcastA sustainable and inclusive recovery from COVID-19
The connection between investors and policymakers is not working as it should if the recovery from COVID-19 is to be sustainable and inclusive with concrete reforms. This podcast explores the role investors have in elevating climate and human rights as part of the COVID-19 recovery, and how they can work ...
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PodcastA legal framework for impact: AP2’s investment approach
In this episode of the PRI podcast, and the second to feature A Legal Framework for Impact, the PRI’s Olivia Mooney hosts Martin Jonasson, General Counsel of AP2, and Elodie Feller, Investment Lead at United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).
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PodcastThe PRI global policy podcast
In this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI policy team discusses the latest policy developments in the EU, US, China and internationally, such as: the green recovery, the EU Taxonomy, the June 2020 Department of Labor bulletin, and aligning international finance policy dialogue with the Paris Agreement. ...
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PodcastThe inevitable policy response to climate change: asset owner focus
In this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI’s Director of Climate Change, Sagarika Chatterjee, speaks with Julian Poulter of Energy Transition Advisors. They discuss the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR), research from the PRI, Vivid Economics and Energy Transition Advisors, through an asset owner lens. They discuss how IPR can ...
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PodcastCOVID-19 and corporate governance: impact on voting and engagement
In this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI’s head of corporate governance, Athanasia Karananou speaks with Sacha Sadan of Legal and General Investment Management.
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PodcastESG in credit risk and ratings: episode 2
In this second podcast of a series on the ESG in Credit Risk and Ratings Initiative, the PRI’s Head of Fixed Income Carmen Nuzzo discusses with Alessia Falsarone from PineBridge Investments and Mike Wilkins from S&P Global Ratings the difference between ESG in credit ratings and ESG evaluations.
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PodcastActing in concert in South Africa
In this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI’s Tom Barron and Nicole Martens are joined by special guests, David Geral, Head of Banking and Financial Services Regulation, Bowmans, and Sibonelo Mdluli, Senior Associate, also at Bowmans.
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PodcastCOVID-19: putting people at the heart of investor response
Recorded during the global COVID-19 pandemic, in this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI’s CEO, Fiona Reynolds, speaks to Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).
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PodcastA legal framework for impact: in conversation with... David Blood, Co-Founder and Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management
Join the PRI’s CEO Fiona Reynolds for this episode of the PRI podcast as she speaks with special guest, David Blood, Co-Founder and Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management. Along with The Generation Foundation and UNEP FI, the PRI recently launched the project A Legal Framework for Impact, which aims to ...
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PodcastESG in credit risk and ratings: episode 1
Join the PRI’s Head of Fixed Income Carmen Nuzzo for the first podcast of a series on ESG in credit, risk and ratings.
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PodcastThe Inevitable Policy Response: why signatories need to act now on climate change
Published on Earth Day 2020, in this episode, the PRI’s Director of Climate Change, Sagarika Chatterjee, and Jason Eis, Executive Director of Vivid Economics, discuss a pioneering piece of research from the PRI, Vivid Economics and Energy Transition Advisors: the Inevitable Policy Response to climate change. They discuss what exactly ...
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PodcastThe PRI quarterly update ft. Graeme Griffiths, the PRI’s Chief Operating Officer
Join the PRI’s Chief Operating Officer, Graeme Griffiths, in this quarterly update episode of the PRI podcast. Graeme is joined by the PRI’s Director of Policy and Research, Will Martindale, and the PRI’s Director of ESG and the SDGs, Shelagh Whitley. Together they run through the key updates from the ...
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PodcastHow corporate social responsibility (CSR) can contribute to company competitiveness
In this academic episode of the PRI podcast, Mikael Homanen, the PRI’s Senior Specialist, Research, is joined by Caroline Flammer, Associate Professor and Dean’s Research Scholar at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. In this episode, they discuss how CSR can contribute to company competitiveness; why companies don’t engage more ...
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PodcastFiona Reynolds, PRI CEO, in conversation with… Dame Sally Davies, UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance
Following the launch of the Investor Year of Action on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) at Davos, the PRI’s CEO Fiona Reynolds, sat down with Dame Sally Davies, UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance. Together they discuss what AMR is, why it should be on everyone’s radar and critically, the role investors ...
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PodcastHow private equity investors can help tackle modern slavery
In the last episode in our series of modern slavery podcasts, the PRI’s Head of Social Issues, Bettina Reinboth speaks with Anders Stromblad, Head of Alternative Investments and External Management at AP2. There are currently 40.3 million people in modern slavery today. To bring this number close to zero by ...
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PodcastHow institutional investors can promote responsible tax behaviour
Tax avoidance is a systemic issue for investors. It can not only have adverse impacts on the profitability and sustainability of investee companies, but it can also affect overall portfolio returns and overall macroeconomic conditions. In this episode of the PRI podcast, join Vaishnavi Ravishankar of the PRI and Edward ...
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PodcastFiona Reynolds, PRI CEO, in conversation with…Nigel Topping, COP26 high-level climate action champion
In this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI’s CEO Fiona Reynolds is joined by Nigel Topping, the COP26 High-Level Climate Action Champion. The UK will host COP26 in Glasgow in November against a backdrop of urgency; we need to reduce emissions by 50% within the next ten years to ...
