Paying for Results - World Bank on Outcome Bonds
In this episode of ESG Currents, Bloomberg Intelligence hosts Melanie Rua and Chris Raddy discuss outcome bonds—financial instruments that tie repayment to the achievement of specific environmental or social results. World Bank Vice President Jorge Familiar explains how the market has grown from the first UNICEF‑backed bond in 2021 to over $1 billion in issuance, highlighting the recent $120 million South African spekboom restoration bond backed by Amazon’s carbon credit purchases. Enuvim’s Stephen Liberatore details how investors price both credit risk and outcome risk, emphasizing the need for rigorous, science‑based KPIs, independent verification, and ongoing reporting to ensure credibility and attract institutional capital. Together, they argue that standardized templates and strong multilateral support could scale outcome bonds into mainstream capital‑market tools.
Pablo Barreiro: Building Preschools and Solving the Childcare Desert Crisis
In this episode, Shanti Ryle talks with Pablo Barreiro, chairman and co‑founder of Fortech, about his niche focus on early‑education real estate—developing preschools and childcare centers to address nationwide “childcare desert” gaps. Barreiro explains how his legal background, multi‑disciplinary education,...
Negative Emissions: Biochar’s Test as a Scalable CO2 Removal
In this Argus Carbon episode, senior reporter Balaji Shanbagh Raj interviews Kavin Kumar Kandaswamy, CEO of Procline, about biochar as a scalable negative emissions technology. Kavin explains how Procline tackles feedstock constraints by sourcing invasive species across South Asia and...
Critical Evolution of Japan's Carbon Credit Market
In this episode of ESG Currents, host Homa talks with Yuuki Mori, General Manager of the Carbon Credit Market Office at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, about Japan’s emerging carbon credit market and its integration with the upcoming Green Transformation Emissions...
Investing in Regeneration: Transforming Planning and Finance Through Systems Thinking
The episode explores how regenerative design can overhaul economic development by rethinking how projects are understood, planned, and financed. It argues that the real barrier to resilient, sustainable communities isn’t a lack of capital but the way investments are originated,...
From Losing $1M a Month to a $1B Exit — Jim Sorenson on Building Impact That Pays
In this episode, Jim Sorenson recounts how he turned a company burning $1 million a month into a near‑$1 billion exit in under three years by pivoting from a mass‑market video‑compression startup to a niche video‑relay service for the deaf and hard‑of‑hearing....
Inside the RFP - Expectations for Asset Managers
Asset owners are moving from broad ESG language to tightly defined, proof‑based RFPs that demand concrete outcomes and data. Mandates are becoming modular, with specific "sleeves" targeting resilience, transition risk, and social issues rather than generic ESG policies. Regional nuances...
Pricing Water Risk and Scaling Climate Resilience
Bloomberg Intelligence’s ESG Currents highlighted the RRG Sustainable Water Impact Fund, a $900 million closed‑end vehicle that channels institutional capital into water‑smart, climate‑resilient agriculture across the U.S., Latin America and Australia. The fund partners RRG Capital Management with The Nature Conservancy...