Sustainable Business Podcast: How can individual investors help create a sustainable future?

Episode 119 of edie’s flagship podcast Sustainable Business Covered is special to mark our Climate Finance Week 2022.

Sustainable finance is a broad and complex topic, with many actors in the private and public sectors, at all scales from the international to the individual. In this episode, we focus specifically on the role of individual investors.

This episode is watched by a senior reporter Sarah George and content editor Matt Mays interviewing experts from three organizations with three different approaches to sustainable investing.

First up is an exclusive interview with The Global Returns Project’s Head of Strategy and Communications, Jack Chellman. The Global Returns Project is a non-profit organization that exists to stimulate investment in climate solutions that may otherwise struggle to get investment, such as other non-profit organizations working on nature and clean energy. Chellman is on hand to help us ask: Who should invest for global returns—long-term planetary benefits—that help de-risk financial returns in other areas?

Our second guest speaker for this episode is CIRCA5000 co-founder Tom McGillyCuddy. CIRCA5000 is a B Corp certified impact investment platform that states it only supports businesses and projects with a net positive impact. McGillyCuddy helps answer questions about avoiding impact washing, aligning finance with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and breaking down the green finance jargon.

Last, but by no means least, is an interview with Crowdcube Chief Commercial Officer Matt Cooper. Crowdcube recently announced that investment in green and sustainable companies has increased from £5.5m in 2016-17 to £41.1m in the year from March 2021 to April 2022. So how Does the company define environmentally friendly and sustainable? And how does one work to accelerate this trend? Listen to find out.

edie hosts this podcast as part of Climate Finance Week 2022, our five-day editorial campaign supporting readers to increase funding for a just transition to a net-zero future. Click here to access all related blogs, features, interviews, events and more.

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