Talking Responsibly

This week we're joined by The Daddy of global mining, Anglo American Mining CEO Mark Cutifani. From going down the mines straight from school, and narrowly avoiding a career as a lawyer, Mark discusses with us mining's place in modern society, the complexities of coal phase out, and his guesstimate that there is as much of the earth's surface covered in pubs and breweries than there is mines! We had a lot of fun recording this.

Rory Sullivan joins us with more Donald McRae: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Old_Devil/RHr2QTLLJ_sC

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Anglo American Mining: https://twitter.com/AngloAmerican

Rory Sullivan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rory-sullivan-73188418/

Adam Matthews: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-matthews-84926b31/

David Hickey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hickey-cfa-05633526/

This week we're joined by Sonja Laud, CIO at Legal and General Asset Management. This week we talk about a particularly taboo subject - where the trade offs actually are for sustainable investments! Sonja also gives us insight into what it means to be a leader in a company that is trying to manage the low carbon transition for its clients. Fascinating stuff.

Rory Sullivan discusses Why We Disagree About Climate Change in his book of the week: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6442472-why-we-disagree-about-climate-change

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Sonja Laud: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonja-laud-schemmann-ab54587a/

Rory Sullivan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rory-sullivan-73188418/

Adam Matthews: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-matthews-84926b31/

David Hickey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hickey-cfa-05633526/

This week we're joined by Anjli Raval, Senior Energy Correspondent at the Financial Times. As well as being an expert commentator on energy, Anjli also covers a multitude of subjects in the FT, and recently wrote an extraordinary piece for the FT Weekend which explored many intersectional issues involved in exacerbating the COVID crisis. Link to the article here: https://www.ft.com/content/0e63541a-8b6d-4bec-8b59-b391bf44a492. We dissect these issues, before moving on to whether Energy companies will be able to trainsiton successfully.

Rory Sullivan discusses a gulity pleasure I think we all enjoy in his book of the week: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Schadenfreude/LMpWDwAAQBAJ?hl=en

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Anjli Raval: https://twitter.com/AnjliRaval or @AnjliRaval

Rory Sullivan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rory-sullivan-73188418/

Adam Matthews: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-matthews-84926b31/

David Hickey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hickey-cfa-05633526/

This week we're joined by Mindy Lubber, CEO and President of the non-profit sustainability organisation Ceres. Amongst other accolades, Mindy has been named a "Climate Warrior" by Vogue Magazine, one of the few in the field to have their accomplishments in sustainability recognised in the mainstream media. We discuss the Climate Action 100+ benchmarks, and the differences in Responsible investment practice in Europe and America.

Rory Sullivan finally lives up to his "book of the week" billing with only one title, though it's not all about the book...

 Details of Rory's recommendations can be found here: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Starve_Acre/U3LXvAEACAAJ

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Mindy Lubber: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindylubber/

Ceres: https://www.ceres.org/

Rory Sullivan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rory-sullivan-73188418/

Adam Matthews: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-matthews-84926b31/

David Hickey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hickey-cfa-05633526/

This week we're joined by Sandy Boss. Sandy is the Global Head of Stewardship at BlackRock and has been pioneering rapid changes to BlackRock's approach towards investment stewardship and climate issues. She has as impressive a background as you're ever likely to see in the RI space, and is also a great speaker on her specialist subjects. You'll learn why we call her the #Boss.

Rory Sullivan again manages to cover two books in his book of the week segement, with  with a connecting books in sport and banking - lack of self awareness abounds! Details of Rory's recommendations can be found below: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219179.Keane

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51007680-banking-on-it

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Sandy Boss: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-boss-3ba3938b/ 

Rory Sullivan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rory-sullivan-73188418/

Adam Matthews: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-matthews-84926b31/

David Hickey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hickey-cfa-05633526/

Coming in February 2021! A new podcast from David Hickey and Adam Matthews looking at recent developments in the world of responsible investing. We speak to special guests to find out what the most important new developments are - and what is just noise. Joining us will be Rory Sullivan for his regular book reviews. We look forward to having you as listeners.