Episode 4 | Lisa Sachs: Reality checks on sustainable finance thinking
Lisa Sachs is Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, part of the Climate School at Columbia University in New York.
She is also the author of a smart and trenchant set of reality check articles on LinkedIn.
In the latest episode of The Transition Tapes, Lisa talks with Hugh Wheelan about why she’s challenging thinking on sustainable finance and how a renewed vision can help re-shape the future of sustainability planning.
Hear Lisa talk about:
How a positive impact vision of laws and governance could shape finance, investment flows and practices, and renew positive multilateralism.
Why sustainability reporting has become a frustrating ‘end’, rather than a means, due in part to the risk focus of Mark Carney's Tragedy of the Horizon’s speech 10 years ago.
The challenge of bringing scientists, engineers and financiers together for co-ordinated planning for public goods.
Why sustainable finance is like trying to pilot a broken plane through turbulence, and why it’s painful to watch failed radar for climate finance now being applied with gusto to biodiversity!
While Lisa loves many types of music for dancing and relaxing, she also talks about why music has taken on a therapeutic role for her in a world of daunting sustainability challenges!
Don’t miss her top ten Transition Tapes playlist!
