It’s summertime and you want an easy way to learn about sustainable finance? Or more generally about sustainability? Below, you will find a selection of podcasts with various topics, angles, and lengths to adapt to your interests, needs, and schedule.
They will help you enrich your dinner – and work! – conversations on sustainable finance, but also on impact investing, the energy transition, what carbon neutrality really means, this summer’s heatwaves and fires, environmental accounting, biodiversity, regenerative agriculture, the impact of the latest electric cars… and many more topics increasingly important to understand if you want to be able to talk sensibly about sustainable finance.
The LSFI’s team recommendations
Sustainability Agenda: The Sustainability Agenda is a weekly podcast exploring today’s biggest sustainability questions. Each episode lasts around an hour where a sustainability thinker offers his/her views on a sustainability challenges, shares the latest thinking, identifies what’s working –and what needs to change — and thinksabout the future of this matter.
- Language: English
- Frequency: Weekly
- Duration: +/- 60min
- Where can I listen to it? You can find it here and also on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Time to Shift: This podcast focuses on energy and climate issues. The TIME TO SHIFT podcast is produced by the volunteers of the Shift Project. This think-tank, led by Matthieu Auzanneau and chaired by Jean-Marc Jancovici, has one objective: to advance the debate and actions for a post-carbon economy.
- Language: French
- Frequency: Monthly
- Duration: +/- 15min
- Where can I listen to it? You can find it on Spotify or Soundcloud.
The Climate Question: Produced by the BBC, this reflects the variety of takes on climate change and how to best understand it and the world’s attempts to avert it, temper it or adapt to it. The programme isn’t about questioning whether Climate Change is happening, it’s about finding the best ways to respond to it. Each episode reports on a current issue where different experts and journalists explain the matter.
- Language: English
- Frequency: Weekly
- Duration: +/- 30min
- Where can I listen to it? You can find it on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Investing in Regenerative Agriculture: In this podcast, Koen van Seijen – i.a., senior manager at Toniic, a network of impact investors – talks to pioneers in the regenerative food and agriculture space to learn more on how to put our money to work to regenerate soil, people, local communities and ecosystems while making an appropriate and fair return.
- Language: English
- Frequency: Weekly
- Duration: +/- 45 mins
- Where can I listen to it? You can find it here and on Spotify, Apple Podcast and Google Podcasts.
Finance et biodiversité: In this podcast, Jean-Benoît Gambet, specialist in biodiversity/natural capital investments, invites women and men who are fighting daily to change things and who put environmental preservation at the heart of their investment decision or their mission. The podcast aims to show that the financial sector can have a positive impact in helping to protect, preserve, conserve and restore nature and biodiversity for the benefit of all society.
- Language: French
- Frequency: twice a month
- Duration: +/- 60min
- Where can I listen to it? You can find it on Spotify, Apple Podcast and Podtail.
Green Finance Institute Podcasts: Helen Avery, head of Nature Programmes at the Green Finance Institute (GFI), interviews global leaders of the financial sector or policy environment so to share their ideas on how to advance green and sustainable finance. Alternate episodes are co-hosted by Ryan Jude, Programme Director at GFI, and include interviews with those leading on-the-ground financing solutions.
