Financing the Future

In the latest episode of Financing the Future, we speak to Frank Elderson, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank to discuss how prudential transition plans can help banks mobilize finance towards the transition, how banks can tackle physical risks going forward, how nature-related risks are being addressed and what is to come next.Frank discusses how ECB banking supervision has worked intensively with the sector to improve preparedness to manage climate and nature-related risk, addresses what banks are doing well and where more progress in needed. He dives deep into prudential transition plans against the backdrop of the green transition and EU competitiveness, and how financing the gap for transition technologies could help meet the EU’s climate objectives.Into and outro credit: Tune by Kike Gutz

In this episode of Financing the Future, host Elliott Harris speaks with Carine Smith Ihenacho, Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund.The conversation explores how long-term investors are navigating geopolitical volatility, regulatory shifts and the evolving ESG landscape while staying focused on financially material sustainability risks. Carine explains why climate risk remains financial risk, why investors must prioritize the issues that truly matter for value creation, and how consistency and long-term thinking are essential in a world of turbulence.From active ownership and responsible AI to global disclosure standards and the energy transition, this episode examines how one of the world’s most influential investors approaches risk, opportunity and long-term returns.Into and outro credit: Tune by Kike Gutz

Launching ahead of COP30, join our first podcast episode of Season 2 - Raising Ambition on Climate Finance - featuring Rémy Rioux, CEO of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and Chair of Finance in Common. This first episode will explore how the global financial system can scale high-quality, long-term climate finance using a systems-level approach, new frameworks that can raise ambition and expectations from COP30.Into and outro credit: Tune by Kike Gutz

Extreme weather events are rapidly increasing in frequency and intensity due to the effects of climate change, making it difficult for insurance companies to manage rising risks and costs. Insurers are now left with no choice but to find ways to weather the storm. In the second episode of UNEP FI’s new podcast series Financing the future, we speak to Lesley Ndlovu, CEO of Africa Risk Capacity (ARC) and member of UNEP FI’s Leadership Council about how Africa is being affected by climate change, ways to manage climate risks and costs, and the role of insurers and the wider finance community in financing adaptation for a resilient future.

Increasingly, companies around the world are using non-financial factors like the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices as part of their evaluation process to identify material risks and growth opportunities. In our first Episode of Financing The Future we speak to Ms. Jessica Tan the Co-CEO of Ping An Group, one of the three largest integrated financial groups in China. We discuss how innovation and technology can scale up ESG.