Financial Climate

About Financial Climate

Join host Alex Roth for conversations with the most insightful investors, innovators, and experts at the frontier of climate and finance. If you’re working to fight climate change, you know finance has become an essential tool. If you’re a finance professional, you know that an understanding of climate risk and the energy transition is becoming indispensable. The connection between climate and finance will only strengthen as we redeploy trillions in capital to keep Earth habitable.

Publisher

Alex Roth

Category

business · news · technology

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

23 Nov 2022

Latest episode

14 May 2026

Latest episodes

6 of 29 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   14 May 2026

   Ep. 28: Funding climate adaptation through resilience bonds, with North Carolina insurance CEO Gina Hardy

   It’s widely known that simple measures taken before climate fueled disasters can prevent human suffering and save enormously on the cost of rebuilding. But human nature is that people procrastinate—sometimes until it’s too late. Another problem is cost. Even if making buildings or infrastructure resilient saves money in the long term, it can be expensive in the near term. Gina Hardy is the CEO of two state-chartered nonprofit insurance companies in North Carolina. Combined, they insure ...

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   20 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep: 27: How military conflict contributes to climate change, with Ellie Kinney of the Conflict and Environment Observatory

   Ellie Kinney from the Conflict and Environment Observatory discusses how military conflicts significantly contribute to climate change through greenhouse gas emissions, which are often excluded from international climate reports in this interview.

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   29 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep. 26: Richard Pennay, CEO of Aon Securities on catastrophe bonds and their role in climate adaptation and resilience

   Catastrophe bonds, or cat bonds, have exploded in popularity in recent years. They have emerged as a critical financial tool to foster resilience from hurricanes and other disasters that are made worse or more frequent by climate change. By the end of 2025, more than $60 billion in cat bonds were outstanding. The world’s leading firm in structuring cat bond transactions is Aon Securities. My guest today is its CEO, Richard Pennay. Over more than two decades, he has helped to pioneer dev...

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Ep: 27: How military conflict contributes to climate change, with Ellie Kinney of the Conflict and Environment Observatory

Published 20 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But that typically military emissions are excluded from those measures. Can you talk a little bit about why military emissions are excluded and how that came to be the case? Yeah, so this goes back to the development of the Kyoto Protocol. So this is within the UNF triple C, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Governments were negotiating the Kyoto Protocol, which was starting to gather what emission sources were going to be looking at and reporting on. And the US, specifically because of the US Department of Defense, lobbied very strongly for militaries to be exempt from reporting and they were successful. […]

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