The podcast is a journey into the multifaceted world of climate business and finance trends in Asia. Featuring experienced experts and hosted by author, analyst, and investor Joseph Jacobelli, the non-profit podcast, delves into the latest trends and challenges, empowering listeners to navigate Asia’s ever-evolving sustainability and decarbonisation landscape.
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Ep55 Driving Change: Eco-Friendly Solutions in the Mining Industry, ft Don Weatherbee, Regenx Tech
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. In this episode, we dive into the fascinating world of eco-friendly mining technology with Don Weatherbee, CEO of Regenx Tech, a company specializing in recycling precious metals from catalytic converters. Don shares the company's unique hydro metallurgic p…
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Ep54 Taiwan's Offshore Wind: Boom or Headwinds?, ft Scott Hsu, K2 Management
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. In this episode we dive into Taiwan's offshore wind story with Scott Hsu. A veteran in Asia's wind power sector, Scott shares unique insights from Taiwan's remarkable journey to become an offshore wind powerhouse. From market dynamics to financing challenge…
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Ep 53 China's green gambit: deciphering its climate policies, ft Prof Christine Loh, HKUST Institute of the Environment
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. This episode is the second part of the conversation with a truly exceptional guest: one of Asia’s pre-eminent thinkers on the environment and climate change, Professor Christine Loh. We explore climate policy and climate action in the Chinese Mainland and H…
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Ep52 Climate business & finance toolkit: skills for a changing world, ft Prof Christine Loh, HKUST Institute of the Environment
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. This episode features a truly exceptional guest: one of Asia’s pre-eminent thinkers on the environment and climate change, Professor Christine Loh. We explore the crucial topic of climate business and finance education and capacity building. We started the …
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Ep51 The Climate Risk Modelling evolution: what we need to know, ft Martim Rocha, SAS
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Climate risk modelling plays a vital role in shaping informed decisions, managing risks, and driving strategic planning by empowering businesses, governments, and individuals to understand and quantify the impacts of climate change. It enables organizations…
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Ep50 Analysis of Asia national and corporate transition trends, ft Dr Sayuri Shirai, Asian Development Bank Institute Advisor of Sustainable Policies
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. In this episode we analyse national and corporate transition trends in Asia. We have invited a distinguished guest to discuss this topic: Prof. Dr. Sayuri Shirai. Dr. Shirai is an Advisor for Sustainable Policies at the Asian Development Bank Institute. She…
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Ep49 Evaluating EVs, key minerals and China, ft Henry Sanderson, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Episode 49 is about the related topics of electric vehicles, key minerals, and China. Our guest is Henry Sanderson. Henry is currently the executive editor of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, a provider of supply chain and energy transition intelligence. Thi…
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Ep48 Three views on key aspects of climate finance in Asia, ft Dr Tim Cadman, Dr Tapan Sarker, Joseph Jacobelli
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. This is a special episode. It is an abridged version of a webinar held in May 2024 on climate finance. There are three short presentations followed by a short Q&A session. You will hear the views from Dr Tim Cadman from the University of Southern Queensland…
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Ep47 Asia RE projects development “101”, ft Steve Shi, Sungrow
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. In this episode, we focus on a crucial part of climate-related business and finance: the creation of renewable energy projects. This is a significant step towards a cleaner energy future. Our expert guest, Steve Shi, is a seasoned professional in renewable …
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Ep46 Climate finance addressing coal plants, ft Christoph Nedopil Wang, Griffith Asia Institute
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. The phase-out of coal-fired power plants in Asia Pacific presents a significant challenge, requiring a delicate balance between environmental sustainability and economic feasibility. In this discussion, we are joined by Dr Christoph Nedopil Wang of the Grif…
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Ep45 Offshore wind in 2023 and beyond, ft Mark Hutchison, GWEC
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. The world’s offshore wind installed capacity reached 117 gigawatts in 2023, up 50% over 2022. It is projected to reach 320 GW by 2030. We discuss with Asia energy markets veteran Mark Hutchinson the recently released Global Wind Report 2024 by Global Wind E…
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Ep44 How innovative financing is powering energy efficiency, ft Alexander Ablaza, Climargy
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Scaling up energy efficiency can for 11 per cent of cumulative emissions reductions by 2030 according to the IEA. In this episode energy industry veteran Alexander Ablaza, explains why energy efficiency the most important pieces of the energy transition alt…
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Ep43 Climate business: fiction and reality, ft Genevieve Hilton & Steve Willis
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. In this episode podcast, we’re privileged to host two seasoned stalwarts of the heavy industry, Genevieve Hilton and Steve Willis. Their unexpected pivot has led them to channel their vast experience into a compelling work of fiction: ‘Fairhaven: A Novel of…
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Ep42 Boosting corporate clean energy purchases in Asia, ft Suji Kang, Asia Clean Energy Coalition
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. One of the rapidly growing areas in climate business and finance is the purchase by corporations of clean energy. This is frequently referred to as corporate renewable energy procurement. Such purchases jumped 12% to 46 gigawatts in 2023 according to BNEF. …
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Ep41 US and EU climate business and finance trends impacting Asia, ft Pamela Largue, Power Engineering Int'l
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Some of the climate business and finance trends in Europe and the US are highly applicable to the Asian experience. In this episode, energy media specialist Pamela Largue provides some clarity on some of these trends. We first briefly chat about her organis…
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Ep40 Asia climate business and finance: the progress in 2023 and the road ahead, ft Mike Thomas, The Lantau Group
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Our guest is Mike Thomas who heads The Lantau Group, a Hong Kong-based consultancy, and who is one of the leading energy economics thinkers in the Asia Pacific region. As it is the beginning of the year, Mike evaluates a small sample of the many development…
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Ep39 Corporate transition strategies: what is the state now and what are the prospects, ft Summer Chen
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Corporates play a crucial role in driving the energy transition. Their role is critical to accelerating change and addressing the pressing climate change challenges. It is critical for corporates to formulate transition strategies, beyond climate risk and o…
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Ep 38 Building sustainable finance regulation: the ASEAN experience, ft Eugene Wong
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Decarbonisation efforts start with the commitment by a government. Once the broad policy is set, the real hard work of regulation begins. To understand and advance sustainable finance it is absolutely imperative to understand this work. In this episode our …
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Ep37 Asia's clean energy boom: an in-depth investor view, ft Robert Mcgregor
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Industry practitioners are a key source to understand the business and finance of the energy transition in Asia. In episode 37’s we have a conversation is Robert McGregor. Robert is the Chief Corporate Development Officer of Gurīn Energy, a pan-Asia renewab…
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Ep36 Insights into decarbonisation strategies of Asian corporates from a practitioner’s view, ft Albert Sutanto
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Corporates all over the world are under immense pressure to address their carbon footprint. They must worry about their own footprint as well as that of other companies their linked with, such as their suppliers. In this episode I chat with a specialist in …
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Ep35 Financing Asia’s decarbonisation and energy transition: an infrastructure finance view, ft Andrew Kinloch
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Asia will account for 50% or more of global energy transition investments in the next three plus decades. Financing is of primary importance and is a challenge. In this episode, Andrew Kinloch, a leading infrastructure finance expert, discusses some of thes…
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Ep34 Solar energy and China: the past, present and future, ft Frank Haugwitz
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. The development of China's solar industry is key to the nation’s as well as the world’s net zero ambitions. Installed capacity was 392 GW in 2022 and is set to continue to grow further. In this episode, we speak to Frank Haugwitz who has been involved in th…
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Ep33 Sustainability advisory: driving strategies and green finance solutions, ft Wee Boon Siong.
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Sustainability and green finance can be highly complex subjects as they comprise a multitude of disciplines. Recent years have seen the creation of a variety of advisor and consulting firms specialising on sustainability. In this episode, Wee Boon Siong, CE…
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Ep32 One of green finance's pillars: deep dive into the real world of carbon exchanges, ft Bill Pazos
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Carbon exchanges are an important component of sustainable finance as they enable the sale of carbon credits to reduce emissions. In this episode, we have Bill Pazos, Co-founder and Co-CEO of the AirCarbon Exchange (ACX), which won Environmental Finance’s B…
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Ep31 Private equity's take on circular economy investment opportunities in Asia, ft Ellen Martin
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. A circular economy transforms goods nearing the end of their useful life into resources for reuse. It aids climate action in three ways. It complements decarbonization measures, it supports the sustainable scaling of the clean energy transition, and it enha…
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Ep30 Past the ESG acronym – research and key green finance and investors’ issues, ft Charles Yonts
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Hundreds of billions of dollars in global assets follow ESG principles. The massive growth seen in the past few years is set to continue, estimate various investments banks. This means that ESG research has become one of the pillars of green finance, social…
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Ep29 Are offshore wind investments and financing booming? ft Mark Hutchinson
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Offshore wind generation capacity is one of the fastest growing forms of green energy globally. It will rise 10-fold this decade – to 330 GW by 2030 from about 34 GW in 2020 –based on one estimate (Wood McKenzie) and will need tens of billions of dollars. O…
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Ep28 The Blue Economy, an ocean of business and investments prospects, ft Mike Abundo
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. The Blue Economy’s annual turnover is US$3–6 trillion (UN), which some estimate will double by 2030, presents a growing opportunity for business and investment. In this episode, Dr Mike Abundo, CEO of OceanPixel, first offers a clear and detailed definition…
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Ep27 Carbon markets and trading: where are we headed? what about China? ft Julien Hage
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. The global carbon markets are an important source for funding the decarbonisation needed to mitigate the climate crisis. The compliance and the voluntary global carbon markets amount to almost US$1 trillion or so. They are set to grow dramatically. The smal…
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Ep26 Japan domestic and global green growth ambitions(?), ft Mika Ohbayashi
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. The Japanese government should be treating decarbonisation with the outmost importance and urgency. It is one of the largest energy consumers in the world – fifth largest oil consumer for example –and it is almost totally reliant on fossil fuel imports. The…
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Ep25 EV charging – one of the keys to Asia’s decarbonisation path, ft Vincent Yip
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. The Asian and global electric vehicle market is massive and growing fast. One of the many forecasts put the value of the sector to rise six-fold, to almost $1,110 billion by 2030 from about $180 million in 2021. Key to the growth of EVs, and thus to decarbo…
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Ep24 Real estate, smart cities and decarbonisation trends, ft Johan Tellvik
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. The real estate sector accounts for about two-fifths of global carbon dioxide emissions meaning it plays a direct key role in decarbonisation and a major indirect role in the energy transition. This is something particularly important to Asia given the regi…
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Ep23 Temperature check on the energy transition in Asia, ft Mike Thomas
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. In Episode 23, the last for 2022, we measure the current temperature of the energy transition in some key Asia economies with one of the region’s most experienced and respected energy economist and consultant, Mike Thomas. He explains how the region is rapi…
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Ep22 Temperature check on Asia transitional finance, ft Anastasios Zavitsanakis
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. It is a ideal time to take a temperature check of the state of sustainable finance in Asia as the year draws to an end. The episode’s guest is an expert in all things sustainable finance given his background and interactions with regulators, corporations, a…
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Ep21 Asia's sustainable finance elephant topic: insuring projects, ft Jan Napiorkowski
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Our guest is Jan Napiorkowski, global head of clean energy at Ariel Re. Jan first discusses his background and his work in insurance in clean energy, an area which is vital to sustainable finance. The elephant topic! Then we launch into two sections. In the…
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Ep20 Views from an energy transition tech provider ft Nicolas Leong
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Welcome to the 20th episode. Our guest is Nicolas Leong from Wärtsilä Energy, based in Tokyo. We first discuss the company, a leading technology provider, as a case study of a firm heavily involved in the energy transition and decarbonization in Asia. A fir…
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Ep19 Major business and finance shifts in Australia, Singapore clean energy, ft Andrew Koscharsky
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Andrew Koscharsky, Energy Markets Project Director at Australia’s Squadron Energy, shares his views on Singapore as a Asian clean energy hub at the operational level and at the sustainable finance levels. We compare and contrast two highly different clean e…
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Ep18 Climate finance and Asian corporates’ net zero journey, ft Piers Touzel
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Brief yet comprehensive discussion on current developments in climate finance in mainland China, Hong Kong, in Taiwan. We first touch on the recent evolution of international Environmental and Social Performance Standards related to project financing. We th…
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Ep17 How is the financing of Southeast Asia’s energy transition progressing, ft John Yeap
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Southeast Asia is a massively important region given its population of almost 700 million and fast-growing energy consumption of 30 exajoules – the EU’s was 57 EJ. Many of the individual economies in the region are in the process of decarbonizing. Given the…
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Ep16 An inside view to China clean power trading, ft Fulvio Bartolucci
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. SUMMARY. We discuss with Fulvio Bartolucci the current state as well as the future of renewable energy trading in the world’s largest electric power market, China. Fulvio, a highly experienced industry participant and GM at Tera Energies, first provides his…
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Ep15 A down-to-earth view of sustainable investing and finance in Asia, ft Stephanie Choi
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Summary. In-depth discussion with UBS Global Wealth Management’s Stephanie Choi about sustainable investing (SI) and finance. The discussion first puts SI into the global context as well as the regional one. Then Stephanie tackles SI products from a variety…
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Ep14 ESG finance and investing and decarbonisation: reality vs babble, ft Matt Orsagh
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Summary. Ep.14 is a comprehensive, insightful, and honest discussion on ESG and sustainable finance and investing with Matt Orsagh, a thought leader on the subject. It is a lively two-way chat covering all of the latest key trends and developments globally …
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Ep13 Decarbonising Asia through carbon markets and finance, ft Charles Bedford
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Summary. Carbon finance and investing is a crucial area of development in climate and sustainable finance. Fund flows have been increasing exponentially and currently only the tip of the iceberg can be seen from the perspective of opportunities. It is a top…
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Ep12 SMEs’ Green Investing in Midst of Australia’s Energy Crisis, ft Rebecca Tilbrook
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Summary. In episode 12 we go back to discuss Australia because of important recent developments in terms of clean energy policy as well as an ongoing energy crisis. Policy-wise the newly elected government is proving to be serious about shifting the energy …
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Ep11 Global views on Asia clean energy projects financing, ft Robert Todd
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Summary. In Ep11 we had the pleasure of chatting with a deeply experienced financier about the financing of clean energy projects around the world, Robert Todd from CIBC Capital Markets, a leading North American financial institutional with a global footpri…
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Ep10 Financing Australia’s Path to a Global Clean Energy Leader, ft Tim Buckley
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Summary. The episode, recorded on June 16 20022, is an important discussion. It is about Australia evolving into a regional or even global clean energy leader from being a laggard. The Australian energy market may be small by Asian standards, but it has a l…
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Ep9 Singapore’s Public and Private Green Drive, ft Lathika Chandra Mouli
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Summary. In this episode nine we focus on the relative success of the green drive adopted in Singapore. We tried to dig into the various business and finance aspects of the current state and the future outlook of Singapore’s transition towards a green and s…
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Ep8 Asia's macro hurdles faced by private equity, ft Fabian D'Avola
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Summary. The podcast focuses on the challenges faced by private equity firms when investing in clean energy projects in Asia. Asia Renewable energy expert Fabian D’Avola provides is insights on some of the key current issues as well as his outlook on the is…
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Ep7 Real and high impact environmental financing, ft Jean-Marc Champagne
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. Summary. The conversation started with a discussion on bankable nature solutions. These are financially viable projects which support the development of more climate resilient and sustainable landscapes and economies. Their bankability enables projects to a…
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Ep6 Cool and profitable energy efficiency investments, ft Jim Maguire
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Please text on topics, guest ideas, comments. Please include your email if you want a reply. The Podcast. Energy efficiency (EE) may well be the misunderstood piece of the energy transition. To many EE is all about money saving. In reality EE projects offer attractive returns to asset owners and investors. In the episode, Joseph Jacobelli and Jim M…
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