Episode 11 | Harald Walkate - Rethinking sustainable finance narratives
In this episode of The Transition Tapes, we speak with Harald Walkate, Advisor on Financing Sustainability & Blended Finance: Route17 and Senior Advisor Blended Finance Lab at the LSE.
We talk about ‘reference narratives’. These are beliefs that spread contagiously “go viral”, self-reinforce, but are potentially not true, and may hinder real action.
We discuss:
What are reference narratives and why do they relate to thinking around green and sustainable finance?
Why has there been a tendency to adopt a market-led reference narrative for sustainable finance?
Why has there been less of a tendency for policy-led approaches?
How do the current policy-led initiatives stack up for potential success?
Harald is also a renowned pianist & composer with his jazz group The New York Second.
Listen to the episode on:
Listen to his Transition Tapes playlist of jazz, bossa nova, classical music and other classics!
🎵 Playlist:
📚 Books:
Enlightenment Now (Steven Pinker)
How to Make an Entrepreneurial State - Why Innovation Needs Bureaucracy. (Rainer Kattel, Wolfgang Drechsler and Erkki Karo).
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
Stoner (John Williams)
📺 Movies:
The Holdovers, The Secret Agent.
Podcasts
Ezra Klein; the NYT Daily;
Pod Save America/The World;
Dutch podcasts about politics.
Capitalisn't with Luigi Zingales.
Podcasts by Tom Gosling, LSE.