Lenders hide behind bureaucracy. Developers hide behind budgets. Advocates hide behind ideals. In a multi-billion-dollar world of ESG, sustainability, and mega-infrastructure, we have built a massive, expensive fortress of paperwork while real-world impacts get left behind.

Welcome to Season 2 of The No Nonsense Sustainability Podcast, hosted by frontline E&S practitioner and author Ildiko Almasi Simsic.

This season, we are stripping the international development industry down to its absolute foundations. No corporate fluff, no sanitized PR scripts, and no macro slogans allowed. We tackle the structural realities, social risks, and operational crises of global capital allocation—ranging from the high-stakes sands of futuristic megaprojects and the chaos of permitting in fragile, un-governed states, to deep-dives into modern impa ...