Sean Penrith Returns - Updates on Climate Finance, Carbon Markets & Impact Investing

Untangling Climate Finance

In this episode, Jay and Sean Penrith (CEO, Gordian Knot Strategies) dive into GKS’s key focus areas, including climate finance, carbon markets, and impact investing.

They explore the current state of climate finance dedicated to mitigation and adaptation efforts, discuss how far the world is from meeting global climate finance targets, the obstacles in our way, and what is needed to achieve these financial goals. They cover carbon markets, both voluntary and compliance, around the world. Sean and Jay detail the challenges these markets face and highlight the positive developments over the past year. Sean explains impact investing and its role in achieving global climate goals, what’s driving growth in the field, the barriers to scaling up impact investing, and what’s needed to accelerate these efforts. Sean also offers insights into the emerging field of biodiversity crediting and shares valuable advice for those interested in this growing area.

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About:

⁠Untangling Climate Finance⁠ explores the dynamic field of climate change finance through conversations with industry experts about topics including climate solutions, global carbon markets, carbon projects, novel technologies such as AI and distributed ledger, and much more.

If you have any questions, comments, a future guest recommendation, or are interested in joining Jay for an episode, please shoot him a message at: ⁠[e-mail]⁠

Credits:

The podcast is produced by ⁠⁠Gordian Knot Strategies⁠⁠.

It is written, narrated, and edited by ⁠⁠Jay Tipton⁠⁠.

Special thanks to ⁠Sean Penrith⁠, Jacoba Gundle, Maggie Tipton, and Julie Witherspoon.

Music is by ⁠⁠Diamond_Tunes⁠.