Listen to New Frontiers in Climate Finance, a new podcast by the Centre for Climate Finance & Investment, where you’ll learn how finance and investment can play a pivotal role in combating climate change. Hosted by Angel Miao, each episode will take you through cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research, engaging in informative conversations with our academic researchers, industry experts and partners. They’ll discuss the investment opportunities in clean tech and renewable energy, quantifying climate risk, funding resilient infrastructure, and more.

New Frontiers in Climate Finance
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Listen to New Frontiers in Climate Finance, a new podcast by the Centre for Climate Finance & Investment, where you’ll learn how finance and investment can play a pivotal role in combating climate change. Hosted by Angel Miao, each episode will take you through cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research, engaging in informative conversations with our academic researchers, industry experts and partners. They’ll discuss the investment opportunities in clean tech and renewable energy, quantifying climate risk, funding resilient infrastructure, and more.
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Recent Episodes

August 22, 2025
E17: Beyond COP - How FFD4 Shapes Climate and SDG Finance
This episode of New Frontiers in Climate Finance features Mike Wilkins and host Harry MacKenzie discussing the outcomes of the Fourth UN Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) in Seville, and its critical role in shaping climate and sustainability finance. The conversation unpacks why FFD4, despite being far less publicised than the annual COP climate conferences, may be equally, if not more important for directing capital to climate action, particularly in the Global South. Mike explains the governance and lending mechanics of multilateral development banks (MDBs) like the World Bank, and why reforming their risk tolerance, capital adequacy rules, and governance structures could triple annual climate-related lending. The discussion explores under-reported but powerful financial levers, such as debt-for-development swaps, special drawing rights, and innovative instruments like intellectual property–backed securities, that could unlock billions for climate resilience, adaptation, and mitigation. The episode also addresses the imbalance of power between developed and developing nations in global finance, the political and economic realities constraining reform, and the pivotal role that FFD4 outcomes could play in influencing negotiations at COP 30 in Brazil later this year. Mike makes the case that scaling concessional climate finance is both a moral imperative and an economic necessity for a stable global financial system. To learn more about Mike’s work, please see the link below: Guest: Mike Wilkins Professor Raúl Rosales Contribution 00:00 Introduction to FFD4 and its Significance 01:02 Why FFD4 Matters as Much as COP 03:14 Governance and Power Imbalances in MDBs 06:48 How to Triple Climate Lending Capacity 10:12 Debt-for-Development Swaps and Special Drawing Rights 15:03 Role of Credit Rating Agencies 18:24 Innovative Finance: IP-Backed Securities and R&D Bonds 22:19 Linking FFD4 to COP 30 Outcomes 27:44 Closing Thoughts and Next Steps

June 26, 2025
E16: Financing Deep Decarbonisation: Scaling Market-Based Mechanisms for Industrial Transition in the UK & ASEAN
Host Harry MacKenzie interviews Dr. Gbemi Oluleye and Dr. Raúl Rosales about using market-based mechanisms like carbon markets and blended finance to scale technologies for decarbonizing heavy industries like cement and ethylene.

February 28, 2025
E15: Decoding NCQGs: Why COP29 Missed the Mark on Climate Finance
Host Harry MacKenzie interviews climate finance expert Alissa Kleinnijenhuis on COP29's missed climate finance goals and the urgent need for developed nations to fund global decarbonization.
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Raffaele De La Croce
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Emma Howard Boyd
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Raffaele della Croce
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Stella Whittaker
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Michael Wilkins
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Leila Pourarkin
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Kit England
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