The Net Zero Investor Podcast

The Net Zero Investor Podcast

by Peter Findlay

Season 2

Australian Ethical’s escalating engagement with QBE

Australian Ethical, a fund manager and asset owner, is escalating its engagement with QBE – an insurance company over fossil fuel financing and climate risk management. Amanda Richman, ethical stewardship lead at Australian Ethical joins Atharva Deshmukh to discuss the role of insurers in facilitating fossil fuel expansion, the history of Australian Ethical's engagement with QBE and how Australian Ethical is responding to QBE's unsatisfactory progress.

Tackling deforestation through bond markets

How can fixed income investors tackle deforestation across their portfolio? NZI editor Mona Dohle sits down with Josephine Richardson, head of Research at the Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute to explore the companies most exposed to deforestation, how to take stock of environmental harms across the supply chain and how refinancing cycles can offer opportunities for engagement.

Oil and gas earnings outlook

Amid a slump in global oil prices and an increasingly challenging outlook for earnings at major oil and gas firms, NZI editor Mona Dohle caught up with Rohan Bowater, co-founder and lead-analyst oil and gas at Accela Research to discuss transition strategies and the earnings outlook for the sector.

Unpicking Cambridge’s new fossil fuel expansion index

Cambridge University has launched a new bond index to target fossil fuel expansion. NZI’s Atharva Deshmukh catches up with Dr Ellen Quigley, principal research associate at the Department of Land Economy and the special adviser (responsible investment) to the CFO at the University of Cambridge and Lily Macfadyen Tomson, senior research associate at Jesus College, Cambridge.

Net Zero with Mona Dohle - Comptroller Brad Lander & Danielle Fugere

With the 2025 AGM season in full swing, Comptroller Brad Lander, custodian for the $200bn NYC pension funds and Danielle Fugere president & chief counsel of As You Sow discuss how they plan to hold the fossil fuel industry to account

Net Zero with Atharva Deshmukh - Joan Larrea

Net Zero with Atharva Deshmukh - Joan Larrea

Net Zero with Mona Dohle - Ana Costa & Georgia Whitehouse

Net Zero with Mona Dole - Ana Costa & Georgia Whitehouse

Net Zero with Mona Dohle - Nick Mazan

Net Zero with Mona Dohle - Nick Mazan

Net zero with Atharva Deshmukh - Peter Boeskov on opportunities in wind

Net Zero Investor's head of research Atharva Deshmukh catches up with Peter Boeskov, chief commercial officer at the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark EIFO, which recently provided financing for Ørsted's Greater Changhua 4 project in Taiwan, and has been involved in the financing over 30% of the world's wind energy capacity outside China.

Net Zero with Mona Dohle- Jeanne Martin on the NZBA exits

2025 started off with leading US and Canadian banks announcing their departures from the Net Zero Banking Alliance in the leadup to Donald Trump's inauguration. NZI editor Mona Dohle speaks to Jeanne Martin, head of the Banking Programme at Share Action about the role could investors could play in holding banks accountable on climate action. =

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