Adding Rigor to Climate Finance with Robert Brown, Ep #129

About this episode

The episode discusses the evolution of climate investing and the importance of rigor in achieving authentic impact.

Frequent listeners know we're always eager to learn about how climate investing needs to change to be more effective. With the attacks on ESG and a new political era, we’re clearly in a new chapter for climate investing and being intentional about the ingredients, language and goals of this new chapter is critical for delivering both solid returns and real impact. Rob Brown argues that its time to step back from overreach and inauthentic impact goals, and fuel this new chapter with rigor. Rob wears a couple of hats as Director of Climate Research at Resolution Investors and Chief Research Officer at Impact Evaluation Lab . In these roles, Rob bring his decades of investment experience using research and analysis to improve long term thinking, risk management and what he calls mission authenticity, or the ability to really deliver on the kind of impact one promises. Tune in for a deeply fascinating conversation about how climate investing is maturing and the work that still needs to be done for this new chapter. Enjoy. On today’s episode, we cover: 02:41 – Rob’s career journey & love of solving problems 05:17 – From Just Capital to Impact Evaluation Lab & Resolution…

People in this episode

Host: Jason Rissman

Guest: Robert Brown

Topics covered

• climate finance
• sustainable investing
• impact investing
• risk management
• investment strategy

Keywords

• climate investing
• ESG
• long-term returns
• mission authenticity
• sustainable finance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Resolution Investors, Impact Evaluation Lab

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