S3E39 Can Capitalism Address Environmental Crisis? (feat Adrienne Buller, Common Wealth)

The gang are talking environmental crisis this week, centred around Rowan's interview with Adrienne Buller of Common Wealth. Her recent paper explored the problems with "ESG" finance, and the issue of relying on private finance more generally to address pressing social and environmental needs. We then expand on just how much better we need to be doing, and why "WWII levels" of public sector intervention and investment may be very necessary.

Adrienne is on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/adribuller
Check out Adrienne's research: https://www.common-wealth.co.uk/reports/doing-well-by-doing-good-examining-the-rise-of-environmental-social-governance-esg-investing
Adrienne shared some further reading on greenwash for interested listeners:
- https://influencemap.org/report/Climate-Funds-and-Fossil-Fuels-8f2c813ed814fe5b1eef61b48497b592
- https://thefinanceinfo.com/2021/01/17/esg-accounting-needs-to-cut-through-the-greenwash/
- https://cyberbizsource.com/2021/02/22/esg-investment-favours-tax-avoiding-tech-companies/
- https://www.ft.com/content/d8a77b40-990e-4329-8629-a18ddbb39f0c

We've also got a longer version of the interview with Adrienne Buller - touching on bizarre financial instruments, and Benjamin Braun's work on asset management transforming corporate governance (https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/v6gue) - for subscribers on our Patreon www.patreon.com/connectedanddisaffected

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