All Things Sustainable

In this episode of the All Things Sustainable podcast, we sit down with Shinjini Menon, Senior Vice President of System Planning and Engineering at Southern California Edison , an investor-owned public utility operating as a subsidiary of Edison International .    Southern California Edison is one of the largest US electric utilities , and Shinjini explains how it is prioritizing energy reliabilit...

T o understand how companies at the heart of the energy industry are approaching the en e rgy transition, we took the All Th ings Sustainable podcast on the road to Houston, Texas to cover CERAWeek , the annual S&P Global conference informally known as the industry's "Super Bowl."   As we'll hear from today's guests, many discussions at CERAWeek 2025 Mar c h 10-14 focused on pragmatism and realism...

The United Nations' annual World Water Day observance took place on March 22 , with a focus on supporting the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.   In t his episode of the All Things Sustainable podcast , we dive into the water stewardship practices at Amazon , one of the world's largest companies with a market cap of more th a n $2 tri ll i on doll...

In recent episodes of the All Things Sustainable podcast, we 've interv i e wed some of the world's biggest financial an d technology companies about how they're approaching sustainability and the energy transition. But how is the energy industry thinking about these topics — including the world's largest fossil fuel companies?   To answer that question, we traveled to Houston, Texas , to cover th...

In this episode of the All Things Sustainable podcast, we're unpacking new proposals to simplify sustainability reporting in Europe.  Released in February 2025, the European Commission's Omnibus Simplification Package would drastically reduce the number of companies subject to corporate sustainability reporting requirements in a bid to slash red tape, particularly for small and medium-sized enterp...

Welcome to the Terra Carta  S eries of the All Things Sustainable podcast, a collaboration with the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI). Throughout 2025, we'll be interviewing SMI member CEOs from around the world and across industries about how they're approaching sustainability challenges and opportunities .    The SMI is a network of over 250 global CEOs across finance and industry. It facilit...

T his week, the All Things Sustainable podcast delves into the intersection of climate change and gender equality with Rachel Vestergaard , Founder and CEO of Empower Co .   Empower Co. is a brokerage firm that is building a global voluntary market for women's empowerment as measured by the W+ Standard,  which is hosted by the S&P Global Commodity Insights Environmental Registry.   Studies have sh...

This week, the All Things Sustainable podcast (formerly ESG Insider) reached 2 million downloads. Today, we bring you an interview with the largest bank in the US.    We sit down with Brian DiMarino, Managing Director and Deputy Director of Global Sustainability, Strategy and Operations at JPMorganChase. He explains how the bank is navigating a challenging sustainability landscape, including its d...

Today marks the anniversary of our podcast launch in 2019. Since then, we've released more than 250 episodes , and the show has been downloaded nearly 2 million t imes around the globe.   We're celebrating these milestones and the evolution of the ESG Insider podcast by launching a new name : the All Things Sustainable podcast. Our new name reflects an idea we've heard repeatedly from guests over...

In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast we explore climate change and its implications for property insurance through the lens of the wildfires in Los Angeles.   The f ires that broke out in LA in January killed at least 29 people and destroyed or damaged thousands of structures. Early estimates from AccuWeather put the total damage and economic losses at more than $250 billion .   "Climate cha...

The UN estimates that the annual financing gap for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is in the trillions of dollars . The Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance estimates developing countries' investment needs to address climate change and the energy transition at $3.2 trillion a year by 2035, excluding China.   Closing these gaps will require private sector invest...

In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast , we take a deep dive into a new report that found 2024 was the warmest year on record .   The report is from the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service, which is the EU's Earth Observation Program and provides information about climate across the world . The report found that a v erage global temperatures for the year were more than 1.5 degrees C above p...

In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we explore what's ahead for jobs that require green , climate or sustainability skills.   We talk with Efr e m Byce r , Senior Lead Manager of Public Policy and Economic Graph at professional social networking platform LinkedIn, which publishes an annual Global Green Skills R eport on demand for green talent. Efr e m says these skillsets are increasingly...

Carbon markets  will be a big focus of sustainability discussions in 2025 after making headlines at COP29, the UN climate conference that took place in Baku, Azerbaijan in late 2024.  In this week's ESG Insider podcast, we dive into the topic of carbon markets with coverage f rom the sidelines of the S&P Global Commodity Insights Global Carbon Markets C onference .    We sit down with Andrea Bonza...

What's ahead for 2025? In the first ESG Insider podcast episode of the n ew y ear, we're talking to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin about the outlook for the energy transition in a landscape of geopolitical unrest and climate change.   "The global political situation is very unsettled, and that's going to reverberate on energy transition, on sustainability and on energy markets," says...

As many of our ESG Insider listeners take trips to visit family and friends this holiday s eason , we're focusing our final episode of 2024 on sustainable travel .     We sit down for an interview with Sally Davey, the CEO of Travalyst . This is a nonprofit that convenes a global coalition of some of the biggest names in travel and technology to make credible, consistent sustainability information...

Th e holiday sea s on is a time to gather around the table for meals with family and friends . In today's episode of the ESG Insider podcast , we're exploring how to make food systems more sustainable with Alexander Gillett, C o-founder and CEO of HowGood , a food and personal care product research and data company .   Alexander discusses challenges in measuring the emissions footprint of food pro...

Today we brin g you the final installment in our Women in Leadership series of the ESG Insider podcast . Over the past two years, we've spoken to women CEOs and leaders from across industries and around the world to understand their path to the top .     In the episode, w e talk to Dr. Vanessa Chan, Chief Commercialization Officer at the US Department of Energy and Director of the Office of Techno...

In recent episodes of the ESG Insider podcast we've been covering some of the big outcomes from COP29, the UN's climate change conference in B aku , Azerbaijan. This was known as the "fi nance COP, " and today we're back with another bonus episode looking at how climate finance has changed over time.   We  sit down on the sidelines of COP29 with Sean Kidney, CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative, a...

In recent episodes of the ESG Insider podcast, we've explored how different sectors are approaching climate change. In today's bonus episode, we're focusing on the insurance industry in an interview with Liz Henderson.   Liz leads Climate Risk Advisory for Aon, a global insurance and reinsurance brokerage firm. In the episode she talks about her key takeaways from COP29, the UN climate conference...

In recent episodes of the ESG Insider podcast, we've been hearing about takeaways from COP29, the UN climate conference that recently wrapped up in Baku, Azerbaijan. In this episode, we hear about the rising private sector engagement at events like COP29, and how companies are collaborating across the public and private sector to find solutions to climate change. "When I look today just at the bre...

At the recent UN climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, countries finalized key rules and guidelines for international carbon trading under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement on climate change .   In this bonus episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we discuss these outcomes and what they me a n for the future of carbon markets with Mark Kenber , Executive Director at the Voluntary Carbon Markets Inte...

The UN's big annual c limate c hange c onference known as COP29 wrapped up in November 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we sit down in Baku with Marcos Neto, Assistant Secretary General and Director of the UN Development Programme's Bureau of Policy and Programme Support .   A mong other things, the UNDP helps countries develop their Nationally Determined Contr...

Throughout 2024 we've been talking with financial institutions around the world about their approach to sustainability and climate finance. Finance was also a big focus of the UN's COP29 climate conference that just wrapped up in Baku, Azerbaijan , and i n this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we talk with De Rui Wong, Senior Vice President in the Sustainability Office of GIC, Singapore's sover...

In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast , we're talking to Mastercard Chief Sustainability Officer Ellen Jackowski , who was just named to the TIME100 Climate list of the 100 m ost i nfluential c limate l eaders in b usiness for 2024. Ellen was on the ground in Cali, Colombia , for the UN's recent COP16 biodiversity conference and in Baku , Azerbaijan , for the UN's COP29 climate conference tha...