Innovations in Sustainable Finance

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2024-11-21

  S3 - E2: The Impact of Everything with Annu Nieminen of Upright

In this episode, I speak with Annu Nieminen, CEO of Upright, a Finnish technology startup with an automated method to quantify companies' net impact on people, planet, society, and knowledge. Upright combines machine learning and natural language proce...
  Julian Kölbel author
2024-10-30

  S3 - E1 The Evolution of Sustainable Finance with Alex Edmans

In this episode, I speak with Alex Edmans, a professor of Finance at London Business School. Many of you in the audience will have heard of Alex before. We traced his evolution of thought regarding sustainable finance, covering his extensive body of wo...
  Julian Kölbel author
2024-07-30

  S2-E8 We Need to Reinvent Everything! A Podcast with Fridtjof Detzner of Planet A

In this episode, I speak with Fridtjof Detzner, co-founder of the climate venture capital fund Planet A, based in Berlin. Fridtjof had early success with an internet company, went on an eye-opening trip to Asia, and came back determined to boost innova...
  Julian Kölbel author
2024-07-11

  S2-E7 The Positive Impact of Football with Liam McGroarty

In this episode, I speak with Liam McGroarty, Strategic Development Manager at UEFA, about the social impacts of football. We discuss how the beautiful game improves lives and how investing in football could have substantial positive impacts. Fun fact:...
  Julian Kölbel author
2024-04-16

  S2-E6 Letting Citizens Decide – A Wikipedia Approach to Impact Assessments

In this episode, I speak with Bertrand Gacon, Co-Founder and CEO at Impaakt. Impaakt is an impact assessment platform that crowdsources information from hundreds of contributors and thousands of reviewers. My favorite insights from this conversation we...
  Julian Kölbel author
2024-03-05

  S2-E5 Financing the FairTrade System with Christoph Gosdenoz

In this episode, I had the pleasure of talking to Christoph Gosdenoz, partner and chairman of FairCapital. FairCapital is an impact investor based in Switzerland that specializes in financing solutions for Fairtrade cooperatives in the global south. My...
  Julian Kölbel author
2023-12-13

  S2-E4 Impact Thinking: A new book by Sam Vionnet

In this episode, I sit down with Sam Vionnet, the author of Impact Thinking, subtitled “Learn critical thinking skills to make better decisions that create societal value”. The book is based on 15 years of experience in consulting with multinational co...
  Julian Kölbel author
2023-11-21

  S2-E3 The Promise of Pass-Through Voting with Georgia Stewart, Co-founder and CEO of Tumelo

Can you imagine voting yourself on who should sit on the board of a company you are invested in? Perhaps on your cell-phone?  In this episode, I discuss with Georgia Stewart, Co-founder and CEO of Tumelo, how their technology democratizes shareholder v...
  Julian Kölbel author
2023-11-07

  S2-E2 Flow-driven ESG returns with Philippe van der Beck

In this episode, I had a conversation with Philippe van der Beck, who wrote a fascinating paper (work in progress) titled "Flow-driven ESG returns". The paper highlights that investing $1 in sustainable mutual funds can increase the value of green firm...
  Julian Kölbel author
2023-10-11

  S2-E1 Crowd-Financed Solar Panels with Aurel Schmid

Did you know that the University of St. Gallen in collaboration with Solarify offers the opportunity to invest into solar panels on their gym rooftop? In this episode, I talk to Aurel Schmid, founder of Solarify. Together we dive into the finance and i...
  Julian Kölbel author