Climate Money

By Susan Su

Climate Money covers the financing side of climate change -- where the money is flowing, where it isn't, and why it matters. Join us as we cover climate headlines and founders and investors involved i... more

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How many episodes does Climate Money have?

The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.

Climate Money episodes:

February 06, 2024Climate Money Ep. 5: On Climate Deniers & Climate Money
Welcome to the Episode 5 of the Climate Money Podcast.
In this episode, we look at:
New research that sheds light on climate deniers, the mental models that do — and don’t — fuel their skepticism, and what it has to do with climate money, especially as more climate companies and jobs are flooding otherwise climate unfriendly red states in the US

Two important food labeling updates and what they mean for our transition to a cleaner, lower carbon, and lower cruelty food system.

Links and graphics referenced in this episode:
Global Warming's Six Americas — Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

A representative survey experiment of motivated climate change denial — Nature Climate Change

Fatwa on Cultivated Meat — Islamic Religious Council of Singapore
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23min
January 30, 2024Climate Money Ep. 4: AI’s climate footprint, nuclear's renaissance and the new climate subsidy wars
Welcome to the Episode 4 of the Climate Money Podcast.

In this episode, we look at:
Five big takeaways from the IEA’s newly released 170-pg Electricity 2024 report, including the structural success of renewables, where the biggest emissions reductions are happening, and nuclear’s big moment

AI’s climate footprint and who’s poised to profit. Private equity firm and landlord of the nation Blackstone just shared Q4 earnings, buoyed by the stellar performance of its data center holdings where value has grown 250% in just two years. But what’s the climate cost of all this new compute power, what role do renewables play, and how else might technology help?

The new climate subsidy wars, and what Europe getting in the game means for the global climate technology ‘space race’
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19min
January 23, 2024Climate Money Ep. 3: The narrative miss on $200B in climate losses + deep dive on Tesla’s Hertz problem with mobility expert Olaf Sakkers
Welcome to the Episode 3 of the Climate Money Podcast. Follow the climate headlines — and the climate money — with me, Susan Su.

In this episode, we look at:
$200B in climate losses and the climate narrative problem. New data out from global reinsurer Munich RE shows that 2023 was the biggest year on record for climate-related losses. So why are we still talking about the “weather?”
Tesla’s Hertz problem, Ford’s Lightning layoffs, and why China is exporting millions of combustion vehicles even as it becomes the biggest market in the world for EVs. We’re joined by special guest and mobility expert Olaf Sakkers, of RedBlue Capital, to learn more about what’s really behind all the bad news for EVs, and why there’s still reason to be bullish on an electric future
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26min
January 16, 2024Climate Money Ep.2: Kenya's Carbon Cash Cow, Solyndra 2.0 and Yikes, JBS
Welcome to the Episode 2 of the Climate Money Podcast. Follow the climate headlines — and the climate money — with me, Susan Su.

In this episode, we look at:
Kenya’s carbon cash cow, a plan to charge a new 15%-25% take rate on all carbon credits minted in the country, and whether this is good, bad or meh for Kenya’s climate ambitions and for global carbon markets
Solyndra 2.0, a fraud-hunt that’s animating Republicans and threatening the $400B DOE Loan Program Office that is or will be key to many climate companies’ deployment success
Yikes, JBS. The world’s largest meat processor and Amazon deforester extraordinaire might get blocked from the NYSE, on climate grounds; why it matters
Italy and France are set to ban cell based agriculture — and why this is a warning for every climate company that regulatory capture might be worse than climate denial
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26min
January 09, 2024 Climate Money Ep.1: A new $30B climate fund on the block, India’s solar and wind story and more
Welcome to the Episode 1 of the Climate Money Podcast. Follow the climate headlines — and the climate money — with me, Susan Su.
One of the central ideas behind my work as a climate investor, and that of many others like me, is that solving climate change is the value creation opportunity of a lifetime.
In this episode, we look at:
- The UAE's new $30B climate fund and what it means for climate investing
- A big development for carbon sequestration in... Louisiana?
- India's solar and wind story, the good the bad and the tricky
- First Solar's $700M revenue bump from tax credits courtesy of the IRA
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22min

FAQs about Climate Money:

How many episodes does Climate Money have?

The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.