ESG Out Loud

In this episode of the ESG Clarity podcast, ESG Out Loud, reporter Holly Downes talks to Eleanor Harry, chief executive of HACE, about their AI-powered Child Labour Index. Today, there are 160 million children in child labour globally between the ages of five and 17, of which 78 million are working in hazardous conditions. With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), HACE helps investors monitor...

Todd Cort, faculty director of Yale University’s sustainability program, is expecting an "explosion of unpriced information", which he said active asset managers will use to outperform markets. Alongside this, the needle is being moved back towards ESG-oriented funds and financial regulators are in the process of standardising climate information and disclosures, which should move markets quickly...

Holly Downes speaks to youth groups and climate activists about what they want to see from the conference this year and their messages for the investment industry.

Former Bank of England senior adviser Michael Sheren discusses the shortfalls of voluntary frameworks, COP28, planetary boundaries and why carbon is not priced in.

Former minister and chair of the UK Net Zero Review joins the podcast to discuss the UK's recent offshore wind auction, giving confidence to the investment industry and his hopes for net zero in the Autumn Statement.

TCFD secretariat member Curtis Ravenel joins the podcast to discuss the 18-month project that ran eight years, why it was time to wind up and what "thorny problems" are next on the agenda.

Former chief economist at Lloyds Bank Trevor Williams joins ESG Clarity in the podcast studio following his speech at our Responsible Pathway conference in June.

Highlights from two years of the ESG Clarity podcast.

For this sector special episode sponsored by Royal London Asset Management, Natasha Turner is joined by sustainable fund manager George Crowdy and Greyparrot AI CEO Mikela Druckman to discuss ESG in the technology sector.

London Business School finance professor Alex Edmans joins the podcast to talk about the future of ESG investing and his paper, Applying Economics - Not Gut Feel - To ESG

Dan Kemp, CIO for EMEA at Morningstar Investment Management and ESG Clarity EU Committee member, and Helen Goulden CEO of The Young Foundation, debate a Scope framework for social factors.

Muhammad Azizul Islam, professor of sustainability accounting and transparency at Aberdeen University, and Therese Kieve, stewardship analyst at Sarasin & Partners, discuss the latest factory worker findings.

In the last episode of the year, ESG Clarity's Christine Dawson talks to Matthews Asia head of ESG Kathlyn Collins about developments in the region and we hear the last clips from oceanographer Dr Emma Boland.

In the final episode of the three-part sector special sponsored by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Jennifer Wu, global head of sustainable investing at J.P. Morgan Asset Management and Divya Bobby Joseph, senior research analyst for healthcare and pharmaceuticals at Sustainalytics, discuss the ESG impacts of healthcare, which are largely in the 'S' bracket.

In the second part of the sector special series sponsored by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Jennifer Wu, global head of sustainable investing at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, talks about the biodiversity risks and opportunities presented by certain sectors, and we hear from Morningstar on the topic.

The fifth episode in the sector special series is sponsored by J.P. Morgan Asset Management and is divided into three parts: sustainable cities, biodiversity and healthcare. In this first part, Jennifer Wu, global head of sustainable investing at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, discusses the ESG risks in the sectors most pertinent to sustainable cities, and we also speak to Tribe Impact Capital's Am...

Following Finance Day at COP27, ESG Clarity global deputy editor Natasha Turner sits down with Ed Baker, head of climate policy, and Rose Easton, senior director for global signatory relations at the Principles for Responsible Investment, to interpret what the day's announcements mean for investment professionals

How to identify good governance at companies is up for discussion in the fourth and final panel of the Global ESG Summit, and we chat to oceanographer Dr Emma Boland about climate scepticism and her hopes and fears around climate change.

Thematics are a great way of engaging clients with sustainable investing and finding solutions that match their values. But volatility, smaller universes and the potential for greenwashing when using the Sustainable Development Goals for investment present challenges. The third panel at the Global ESG Summit discusses this and more.

Social factors and how to measure them are the topics for discussion in the second panel at the Global ESG Summit, and oceanographer Dr Emma Boland explains the Smurfs project.

Climate reporting and adaptation discussion from the Global ESG Summit and oceanographer Dr Emma Boland explains the Orchestra project

In this fourth sector special episode, sponsored by Royal London Asset Management(RLAM), ESG Clarity speaks to RLAM's head of sustainable investments, Mike Fox, and NextEnergy Group CEO Michael Bonte-Friedheim.

Rathbones' stewardship director Matt Crossman shares ways to engage with companies on modern slavery, and we hear the second instalment of our chat with oceanographer Dr Emma Boland, who explains how she uses climate modelling in her research.

A brand new format for our podcast where we'll be sharing a clip from our chat with climate scientist and oceanographer Dr Emma Boland each week. But before that in this episode ESG Clarity sister publication What Investment editor Rory Palmer speaks to 2DII managing director Jakob Thomä.

In the full interview with Epworth's head of ethics from episode nine of ESG Out Loud, Harper says not to shy away from tax issues just because they are difficult.