Name: EP74: Enviva’s Sustainable Wood Pellets: A Low-Carbon, Renewable Solution
Start: 2020-11-20T16:00:00Z
End: 2020-11-20T16:00:33.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Investors and advisors can learn everything they need to know about sustainable finance as Paul Ellis interviews leaders in the field.

For real estate investors and owners, figuring out how to reduce carbon emissions without raising the cost of building new or retrofitting is a major challenge. My guest today, Laura Rapaport, founder and CEO of North Bridge, is leading the way in providing financing that does just that. C-PACE is a long term, fixed-rate credit product secured by a special property assessment, and North Bridge has recently secured a $1 billion commitment from the Carlyle Group to originate C-PACE loans. Rapaport explains how this financing can ensure that resilient and sustainable real estate projects have the flexibility required for completion while reducing carbon emissions and energy consumption and benefiting local economies. All PACE projects to date are expected to reduce
carbon emissions by 3 million tons.

EP 284: How Sustainable Infrastructure Can Be Financed at Lower Cost and Reduce Carbon Emissions

For listeners interested in cutting edge climate tech and investment opportunities for 2025, the Wall Street Green Summit is your one stop shop. My guest, Peter Fusaro, a leader in the clean tech sector, launched his first Summit in 2002. On today’s episode Fusaro gives a preview of what will be happening at this year’s gathering on March 18 and 19th, when  leading investors, asset managers and founders in climate tech will convene to share their knowledge about clean energy solutions and solving new problems in sustainability. In our wide ranging conversation, Fusaro discusses his perspective that the train has left the station and climate tech innovations will continue during the next administration. The 24th Wall Street Green Summit: NYC, March 18-19th, in person only, at the Cornell Club (one block from Grand Central Station). TheWallStreetGreenSummit.com

EP 283: The Wall Street Green Summit: A Deep Dive into Climate Tech 2025

The big shift in ESG data analytics is from opaque ratings to key design principles for meeting regulatory demands and stakeholder expectations. My podcast guest today, Lise Pretorius, talks about ESG data’s influence amid the current industry backlash and sustainable investing’s potential to shape a future in financial markets focusing on accountability, trust, and meaningful impact. Pretorius is Chief Sustainability Analysis Officer at Matter, which provides ESG and sustainability data and analytics solutions to the investment industry. She discusses using new types of data to supplement company disclosures, including forward looking analyses, geospatial data, and third-party insights.

EP 282: Accountability, Trust, Meaningful Impact: Forward Looking Analyses Builds Clarity in ESG Data

The Climate Talent Initiative was the brainchild of Roshan Paul during his third major career change, designed to de-risk pathways for skilled people to enter the global climate change workforce. Roshan used his own experience in the climate change sector to create opportunities for others, especially to answer the following question;   “How can I earn a good living and have a positive impact on global climate change issues”?

EP 281: This Pathway to a Successful Climate Change Career Works

What can VC and PE companies do when faced with pressures from investors, customers, and regulators to report ESG metrics more accurately and dedicate more resources to the process? SFP guests Charlie Mahoney, Head of U.S. Sales at Novata, and Simone Wren, ESG and Sustainability Director at New Relic, bring first-hand experience and insights to how private companies can achieve their sustainability and business goals, like increasing employee retention, reducing their carbon footprint, and building more financially efficient business systems.

EP 280: How Private Companies Can Keep Investors and Customers Happy While Managing Reporting and Regulatory Challenges

Today’s guest, Francisco Roque de Pinho, does a deep dive on how regenerative agriculture is addressing land degradation and water scarcity across Latin America. Roque de Pinho, who began his career as a banker at https://www.linkedin.com/company/edmond-de-rothschild/. and co-founded The Land Group in 2016. The company is an independent and fully integrated real asset manager and farmland operator of 40,000 hectares in South America focusing on soil management, animal welfare, natural resource conservation, and water system resilience. With €120 million of assets under management, The Land Group is now ramping up its focus on adaptive-grazing based approaches to regenerative agriculture.

EP 279: Regenerative Agriculture Delivers Consistent Returns for Institutional, Family Office, and Fund Investors

GaiaLens is an AI-powered Sustainable Analytics Platform for institutional investors and financial services firms. My guest, CEO and Co-Founder Gordon Tveito-Duncan, and team offer cutting-edge technologies through this innovative platform and a suite of tools that support asset managers and owners throughout the whole ESG investment lifecycle. Tveito-Duncan tells us how their platform saves significant time and helps fulfill ESG portfolio reporting, investment screening, and deep-dive research capabilities.

EP 278: How Unique ESG Platform Integrates ESG Data for Better Portfolio Reporting and Investment Screening

The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, with its diverse economies, regulatory environments, and cultures, presents unique challenges and opportunities for businesses, investors, and regulators. On today’s program, Jeanne Lee, Head of APAC Sales and Kyle Flick, APAC Advisory Lead at Novata talk about how their platform is simplifying and streamlining data collection to help businesses create a competitive edge, stimulate long-term growth and prepare for regulatory reporting.

SFP 277: How Private Market Companies Can Manage ESG Metrics in APAC Economies

In 2016 the founding partners at Cibus Capital merged their first-hand experience of the impacts of the current food production industry on the planet and its people. By combining their skills in finance and agriculture they formed the Cibus Funds to invest in more sustainable food systems. Rob Appleby, Cibus Capital’s CIO and Founder, believes that by identifying companies that are category or local champions, with proven track records, a cost advantage and that pay specific attention to sustainability criteria, Cibus makes investments that will outperform over the next decade.

Episode 276: How to Invest in the Future of Food

The single serve coffee industry has a recycling problem: too many pods, not enough recycling providers. My guest today is going to tell us how his company aims to solve this problem by manufacturing compostable coffee pods. Matthew Martin is the VP of Innovation at Pod Pack Int’l. He’s second generation, growing up in the business with his father, who co-founded Pod Pack in 1996. In 2018 Pod Pack Intl. joined LongueVue Capital (“LVC”), which galvanized the company’s potential to generate attractive returns while being accountable for their social and environmental impact.

EP 275: Introducing a Compostable Pod Cup of Coffee

In 1989, Ron Dembo founded Algorithmics Inc., which he grew from a start-up to the largest supplier of enterprise financial risk systems, serving 80% of the world’s largest banks and insurers. Fast forward to 2020, with just three employees, Dembo embarked on and even bolder mission, launching Riskthinking.AI–a groundbreaking simulation engine capable of modeling the world’s largest financial institutions, the most complex corporations, and even entire countries, all to assess the impact of climate change on their futures. On today’s program, Dembo talks to us about developing a platform that is scientifically rigorous, mathematically sound, scalable, computationally efficient and evolving alongside advancements in data science.

EP 274: Riskthinking.AI: Using Digital Twin Technology To Project Climate Finance Risk

Insurance carriers are the second largest money management group and one of the most impactful regulatory industries on earth. How is Premiums for the Planet, a membership-based collective action movement, motivating this industry to incorporate more sustainable investment strategies? Join Founder and CEO Brad Stevenson as we discuss how the collective’s companies are challenging the investment practices of their insurance carriers to support the climate adaptation efforts of the collective.

EP 267: How Climate Conscious Companies are Challenging the Insurance Industry

The need for convergence and harmonization of ESG frameworks and metrics across industries and regions has become critical in today’s market landscape. Investors and asset managers need quality data that they can compare across companies, industries, and indexes. The critical need for convergence and harmonization of ESG frameworks and metrics globally is the topic of today’s program. Laura Callaghan, Associate Director of ESG Services at Novata, is going to take us behind the scenes into the Service team’s important role in moving Novata beyond the sustainable investment industry perception that this is just a technology platform. We will explore the ESG convergence initiatives and frameworks that are key for market transparency, and what barriers exist in achieving this convergence.

EP 258: ESG Metrics Convergence Is Critical to Market Transparency

Tim Gocher’s adventures in Nepal started 20 years ago when he left his job in London’s financial markets. Gocher is founder and CEO of Dolma Fund Management, the first international private equity firm to focus on empowering Nepal’s startups. Under Tim’s strategic leadership, Dolma has successfully raised over $100Million in two funds and created over 15,000 jobs in Nepal and other developing countries. Tim has pioneered renewable energy investment throughout Asia. He is also founder and chairman of Dolma Foundation, a charity focused on fostering education-related changes in Nepal.

EP 273: The Story of Nepal’s First Private Equity Firm

My guest on today’s program is Marie Clara BUELLINGEN, Head of Sustainable Finance Americas for Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking, one of the largest foreign banking organizations in North America. She is charged with solving the challenges of making public and private capital work together to scale clean energy solutions in the required timelines. The Societe Generale sustainable finance team develops ESG strategies and programs that meet with key stakeholder expectations and best practices such as TCFD, SASB, GRI, UNPRI and the CDP. We talk about approaches to clean energy technology solutions that she has seen work across multiple sectors of the global economy.

EP 272: How Public & Private Capital Join Forces to Scale Clean Energy Solutions

It’s Climate Week 2024 in New York, and all eyes are on the decarbonization and climate transition trend, with climate mitigation investing often taking center stage. But as the physical effects of climate change on people and the global economy continue to escalate, it’s increasingly obvious that  investments in climate adaptation and resilience are also critical. And insurance, particularly the insurability of assets across different regions is rapidly becoming one of the most exciting avenues for meeting this need. Three investment experts from Schroders join us on today’s program to discuss what’s happening, including climate and crop insurance industries, insurance linked securities, and private market opportunities. Irene Lauro, an Economist at Schroders, focuses on climate issues; Christophe Etienne, is a Senior Natural Catastrophe Specialist on the Insurance Linked Securities team at Schroders Capital; and Martin E. Diaz Plata is Head of Private Equity Investments at Blue Orchard, an Impact investment manager owned by Schroders that runs the only private equity strategy in the world solely dedicated to climate insurance.

EP 271: Schroders' Insurance Linked Securities & PE Investment Strategies Spur Climate Adaptation and Resilience

Keppler explains how 3.5 million metric tons of sustainable wood pellets allow heat generators and power producers to reduce their carbon footprint by up to 85% on a lifecycle basis and help meet their renewable energy generation goals. Enviva has generated an annualized total return to unitholders of about 24% since its initial public offering in 2015 and just this week reaffirmed its full-year distribution guidance in a COVID-19 environment.
Enviva's first ever Corporate Sustainability Report is available at the Attachments tab of this podcast - Displace Coal; Grow More Trees; Fight Climate Change

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