This episode focuses on a missing piece of the green bond conversation – the fees that banks collect for facilitating issuance. Despite widely prevalent fossil fuel lending and the NZBA ceasing operations, green bonds are a profitable business opportunity for banks. How long can banks have their cake and eat it too?

Josephine Richardson, MD & head of research at Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute (AFII) joins Atharva Deshmukh to discuss the latest trends in syndication fees and why that matters for investors.

Lindsey Stewart, director of Institutional Insights at Morningstar takes stock of the highlights of this year’s Net Zero Investor Annual Conference and key trends for climate investing in 2026.

The first engineer on the show, Dr. Ana Diaz, global energy transition lead at Climate Bonds Initiative, joins the NZI podcast to explain how science can guide investment decisions for methane abatement. In this episode, Ana speaks with NZI head of research Atharva Deshmukh about methane emissions, the technologies that exist to address them and the Methane Finance Working Group of which CBI is a part.

Amy O’Brien is the global head of responsible investing at Nuveen, the asset management arm of TIAA. In this episode, she joins NZI head of research Atharva Deshmukh to discuss her new book, A Field Guide to Responsible Investing: Asset Management in the Age of Polycrises. The discussion focuses among other things, on chapter aptly titled ‘A Tour of the Asset Classes’.

This year’s AGM season has brought a new set of challenges. While the number of resolutions being filed is declining, asset owners are increasingly focusing on selecting the right manager to pursue their climate ambitions. Lindsey Stewart, director of institutional insights at Morningstar, and Leanne Clements, head of responsible investing at The People’s Pension, share their perspectives.

The UK government is planning to impose new obligations on financial organisations like pension funds, asset managers and FTSE100 companies to develop credible climate transition plans, Mona Dohle sits down with Faith Ward, Working Group Chair on the UK Transition Finance Council, and Michael Marshall, a member of the investor advisory group at the Financial Reporting Council to discuss what this could mean in practice.

This episode of the Net Zero Investor podcast maps the investment opportunity in climate adaptation. NZI head of research Atharva Deshmukh speaks to Shari Friedman, managing director, climate and sustainability at Eurasia Group, Baysa Naran, senior manager at Climate Policy Initiative and Jaakko Kooroshy, global head of sustainable investment research at the London Stock Exchange Group about the demand for climate adaptation financing and the instruments such as green bonds through which it is supplied.

The world’s largest banks have again ramped up their lending activities to fossil fuels last year, channelling more than $869bn to the industry as this week’s Banking on Climate Chaos report reveals. NZI editor Mona Dohle sits down with Léa Miomandre, financial analyst at Reclaim Finance to discuss why banks failed to turn the taps off.

Australian Ethical, a fund manager and asset owner, is escalating its engagement with QBE – an insurance company over fossil fuel financing and climate risk management. Amanda Richman, ethical stewardship lead at Australian Ethical joins Atharva Deshmukh to discuss the role of insurers in facilitating fossil fuel expansion, the history of Australian Ethical's engagement with QBE and how Australian Ethical is responding to QBE's unsatisfactory progress.

How can fixed income investors tackle deforestation across their portfolio? NZI editor Mona Dohle sits down with Josephine Richardson, head of Research at the Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute to explore the companies most exposed to deforestation, how to take stock of environmental harms across the supply chain and how refinancing cycles can offer opportunities for engagement.