Best Joseph Jacobelli Podcasts (2025)

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Ep65 Financing strategies for Asia’s energy transition, ft Srini Nagarajan, British International Investment 49:27

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) In this episode, Joseph converses with Srini Nagarajan, who heads Asia for British International Investment (BII). BII is the UK’s development finance institution. It is focused on investing in sustainable infrastructure and businesses in developing countries to promote economic g…

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Ep64 From bunker to biofuel: CBL's maritime energy transition, ft Venus Zhao, CBL International 30:10

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Banle Group’s Venus Zhao discusses how CBL International is revolutionising the maritime industry through sustainable biofuels. Its B24 biofuel blend reduces GHG emissions by up to 25% compared to conventional marine fuels. With operations across 60+ global ports and recent ISCC c…

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Ep63 Blowing strong: the surge of wind energy in Asia, ft Mark Hutchinson, Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) 29:24

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) In this episode of the Asia Climate Finance Podcast, Joseph and Mark Hutchinson from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) discuss the latest developments in the offshore wind industry, especially in Asia. Mark highlights GWEC's role in promoting wind energy through government-ind…

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Ep62 Audio Blog: US Policy Shakeup: A Global Clean Energy Shift? ft Joseph Jacobelli, Bougie Impact Capital Ltd 20:34

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) In this special audio blog, host Joseph Jacobelli dives into the seismic shifts in US clean energy policy under the new administration. Discover how these changes are introducing uncertainty, leading to project cancellations, and potentially redirecting investments to Europe and A…

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Ep61 Asia's energy transition: where private capital sees value, ft Luke Edwards, Brookfield 46:24

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Asia is at the heart of the global energy transition, presenting a once-in-a-generation investment opportunity. In this episode, Luke Edwards of Brookfield discusses the crucial role of private capital in funding clean energy solutions, the challenges and opportunities in emerging…

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Ep60 Batteries and geopolitics: the race for battery supremacy, ft Tim Bush, UBS 44:33

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) In this 60th episode of our podcast we talk with Tim Bush, an analyst at UBS and a top expert in batteries and energy, about the fast-changing world of battery production. Tim provides a clear view of the global battery industry's complex challenges and opportunities. Tim‘s insigh…

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Ep59 The reshaping of recruitment in Asia, ft Seth Peterson, Korn Ferry 25:20

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Korn Ferry's Seth Peterson reveals how AI and in-house recruitment are revolutionizing executive search in Asia's energy transition sector. Despite the current market slowdown in China, demand for ESG and sustainability talent in Asia Pacific is quite strong. Corporate culture and…

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Ep58 A corporate leader driving Asia’s energy transition, ft. Giorgio Fortunato, Google 32:49

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) This episode features Giorgio Fortunato who leads Clean Energy and Power at Google in Asia Pacific. He outlines Google's dedication to clean energy, including its ambitious 24/7 carbon-free energy target by 2030. Giorgio explores the Asia Pacific region's unique challenges and opp…

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Ep57 Asia's energy transition: hybrids rise, gas adapts, and markets reform, ft Mike Thomas, The Lantau Group 44:57

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) In Episode 57, leading Asia energy economist Mike Thomas of The Lantau Group shared insights on 2024 trends and the 2025 outlook. He highlighted improved investment fundamentals, growing demand for renewables, and significant market reforms in Malaysia and the Philippines. Looking…

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Ep56 Clean energy investing: Asia's transition, ft Gavin Adda, Peak Energy 49:42

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) In this episode, we delve into the world of climate business, climate finance, and the energy transition in the Asia Pacific region, as seen through the lens of a major investor. Our guest is Gavin Adda, CEO of Peak Energy Development, a Singapore-based company backed by the $70 b…

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Ep55 Driving Change: Eco-Friendly Solutions in the Mining Industry, ft Don Weatherbee, Regenx Tech 25:48

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) In this episode, we dive into the fascinating world of eco-friendly mining technology with Don Weatherbee, CEO of Regenx Tech, a company specializing in recycling precious metals from catalytic converters. Don shares the company's unique hydro metallurgic process, which is more en…

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Ep54 Taiwan's Offshore Wind: Boom or Headwinds?, ft Scott Hsu, K2 Management 37:53

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) In this episode we dive into Taiwan's offshore wind story with Scott Hsu. A veteran in Asia's wind power sector, Scott shares unique insights from Taiwan's remarkable journey to become an offshore wind powerhouse. From market dynamics to financing challenges, we explore how Taiwan…

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Ep53 China's green gambit: deciphering its climate policies, ft Prof Christine Loh, HKUST Institute of the Environment 43:37

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) This episode is the second part of the conversation with a truly exceptional guest: one of Asia’s pre-eminent thinkers on the environment and climate change, Professor Christine Loh. We explore climate policy and climate action in the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong, examining the …

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Ep52 Climate business & finance toolkit: skills for a changing world, ft Prof Christine Loh, HKUST Institute of the Environment 38:29

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) This episode features a truly exceptional guest: one of Asia’s pre-eminent thinkers on the environment and climate change, Professor Christine Loh. We explore the crucial topic of climate business and finance education and capacity building. We started the conversation with Profes…

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Ep51 The Climate Risk Modelling evolution: what we need to know, ft Martim Rocha, SAS 51:40

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Climate risk modelling plays a vital role in shaping informed decisions, managing risks, and driving strategic planning by empowering businesses, governments, and individuals to understand and quantify the impacts of climate change. It enables organizations to pinpoint and evaluat…

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Ep50 Analysis of Asia national and corporate transition trends, ft Dr Sayuri Shirai, Asian Development Bank Institute Advisor of Sustainable Policies 40:49

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) In this episode we analyse national and corporate transition trends in Asia. We have invited a distinguished guest to discuss this topic: Prof. Dr. Sayuri Shirai. Dr. Shirai is an Advisor for Sustainable Policies at the Asian Development Bank Institute. She is also a professor of …

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Ep49 Evaluating EVs, key minerals and China, ft Henry Sanderson, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence 30:29

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Episode 49 is about the related topics of electric vehicles, key minerals, and China. Our guest is Henry Sanderson. Henry is currently the executive editor of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, a provider of supply chain and energy transition intelligence. This includes lithium, nick…

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Ep48 Three views on key aspects of climate finance in Asia, ft Dr Tim Cadman, Dr Tapan Sarker, Joseph Jacobelli 54:27

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) This is a special episode. It is an abridged version of a webinar held in May 2024 on climate finance. There are three short presentations followed by a short Q&A session. You will hear the views from Dr Tim Cadman from the University of Southern Queensland, from Dr Tapan Sarker, …

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Ep47 Asia RE projects development “101”, ft Steve Shi, Sungrow 47:14

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) In this episode, we focus on a crucial part of climate-related business and finance: the creation of renewable energy projects. This is a significant step towards a cleaner energy future. Our expert guest, Steve Shi, is a seasoned professional in renewable energy project transacti…

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Ep46 Climate finance addressing coal plants, ft Christoph Nedopil Wang, Griffith Asia Institute 35:46

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) The phase-out of coal-fired power plants in Asia Pacific presents a significant challenge, requiring a delicate balance between environmental sustainability and economic feasibility. In this discussion, we are joined by Dr Christoph Nedopil Wang of the Griffith Asia Institute, who…

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Ep45 Offshore wind in 2023 and beyond, ft Mark Hutchison, GWEC 23:17

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) The world’s offshore wind installed capacity reached 117 gigawatts in 2023, up 50% over 2022. It is projected to reach 320 GW by 2030. We discuss with Asia energy markets veteran Mark Hutchinson the recently released Global Wind Report 2024 by Global Wind Energy Council. We have a…

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Ep44 How innovative financing is powering energy efficiency, ft Alexander Ablaza, Climargy 58:33

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Scaling up energy efficiency can for 11 per cent of cumulative emissions reductions by 2030 according to the IEA. In this episode energy industry veteran Alexander Ablaza, explains why energy efficiency the most important pieces of the energy transition although it is often unjust…

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Ep43 Climate business: fiction and reality, ft Genevieve Hilton & Steve Willis 1:01:27

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) In this episode podcast, we’re privileged to host two seasoned stalwarts of the heavy industry, Genevieve Hilton and Steve Willis. Their unexpected pivot has led them to channel their vast experience into a compelling work of fiction: ‘Fairhaven: A Novel of Climate Optimism’ (Habi…

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Ep42 Boosting corporate clean energy purchases in Asia, ft Suji Kang, Asia Clean Energy Coalition 34:11

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) One of the rapidly growing areas in climate business and finance is the purchase by corporations of clean energy. This is frequently referred to as corporate renewable energy procurement. Such purchases jumped 12% to 46 gigawatts in 2023 according to BNEF. Our guest is Suji Kang, …

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Ep41 US and EU climate business and finance trends impacting Asia, ft Pamela Largue, Power Engineering Int'l 24:53

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Some of the climate business and finance trends in Europe and the US are highly applicable to the Asian experience. In this episode, energy media specialist Pamela Largue provides some clarity on some of these trends. We first briefly chat about her organisation, Enlit World, an i…

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Ep40 Asia climate business and finance: the progress in 2023 and the road ahead, ft Mike Thomas, The Lantau Group 50:34

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Our guest is Mike Thomas who heads The Lantau Group, a Hong Kong-based consultancy, and who is one of the leading energy economics thinkers in the Asia Pacific region. As it is the beginning of the year, Mike evaluates a small sample of the many developments in the region’s climat…

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Ep39 Corporate transition strategies: what is the state now and what are the prospects, ft Summer Chen 29:28

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Corporates play a crucial role in driving the energy transition. Their role is critical to accelerating change and addressing the pressing climate change challenges. It is critical for corporates to formulate transition strategies, beyond climate risk and other types of reporting.…

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Ep 38 Building sustainable finance regulation: the ASEAN experience, ft Eugene Wong 56:34

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Decarbonisation efforts start with the commitment by a government. Once the broad policy is set, the real hard work of regulation begins. To understand and advance sustainable finance it is absolutely imperative to understand this work. In this episode our guest is Eugene Wong who…

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Ep37 Asia's clean energy boom: an in-depth investor view, ft Robert Mcgregor 1:18:07

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Industry practitioners are a key source to understand the business and finance of the energy transition in Asia. In episode 37’s we have a conversation is Robert McGregor. Robert is the Chief Corporate Development Officer of Gurīn Energy, a pan-Asia renewable energy company. He ha…

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Ep36 Insights into decarbonisation strategies of Asian corporates from a practitioner’s view, ft Albert Sutanto 46:19

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Corporates all over the world are under immense pressure to address their carbon footprint. They must worry about their own footprint as well as that of other companies their linked with, such as their suppliers. In this episode I chat with a specialist in this area, Albert Sutant…

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Ep35 Financing Asia’s decarbonisation and energy transition: an infrastructure finance view, ft Andrew Kinloch 30:45

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Asia will account for 50% or more of global energy transition investments in the next three plus decades. Financing is of primary importance and is a challenge. In this episode, Andrew Kinloch, a leading infrastructure finance expert, discusses some of these challenges. He looks a…

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Ep34 Solar energy and China: the past, present and future, ft Frank Haugwitz 1:04:23

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) The development of China's solar industry is key to the nation’s as well as the world’s net zero ambitions. Installed capacity was 392 GW in 2022 and is set to continue to grow further. In this episode, we speak to Frank Haugwitz who has been involved in the sector for over two de…

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Ep33 Sustainability advisory: driving strategies and green finance solutions, ft Wee Boon Siong. 46:02

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Sustainability and green finance can be highly complex subjects as they comprise a multitude of disciplines. Recent years have seen the creation of a variety of advisor and consulting firms specialising on sustainability. In this episode, Wee Boon Siong, CEO of RHT Green which spe…

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Ep32 One of green finance's pillars: deep dive into the real world of carbon exchanges, ft Bill Pazos 57:04

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Carbon exchanges are an important component of sustainable finance as they enable the sale of carbon credits to reduce emissions. In this episode, we have Bill Pazos, Co-founder and Co-CEO of the AirCarbon Exchange (ACX), which won Environmental Finance’s Best Carbon Exchange awar…

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Ep31 Private equity's take on circular economy investment opportunities in Asia, ft Ellen Martin 45:22

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) A circular economy transforms goods nearing the end of their useful life into resources for reuse. It aids climate action in three ways. It complements decarbonization measures, it supports the sustainable scaling of the clean energy transition, and it enhances adaptation to a cha…

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Ep30 Past the ESG acronym – research and key green finance and investors’ issues, ft Charles Yonts 1:03:53

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Hundreds of billions of dollars in global assets follow ESG principles. The massive growth seen in the past few years is set to continue, estimate various investments banks. This means that ESG research has become one of the pillars of green finance, socially responsible investing…

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Ep29 Are offshore wind investments and financing booming? ft Mark Hutchinson 46:28

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Offshore wind generation capacity is one of the fastest growing forms of green energy globally. It will rise 10-fold this decade – to 330 GW by 2030 from about 34 GW in 2020 –based on one estimate (Wood McKenzie) and will need tens of billions of dollars. Our guest, Mark Hutchinso…

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Ep28 The Blue Economy, an ocean of business and investments prospects, ft Mike Abundo 1:27:43

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) The Blue Economy’s annual turnover is US$3–6 trillion (UN), which some estimate will double by 2030, presents a growing opportunity for business and investment. In this episode, Dr Mike Abundo, CEO of OceanPixel, first offers a clear and detailed definition of the Blue Economy, it…

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Ep27 Carbon markets and trading: where are we headed? what about China? ft Julien Hage 47:36

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) The global carbon markets are an important source for funding the decarbonisation needed to mitigate the climate crisis. The compliance and the voluntary global carbon markets amount to almost US$1 trillion or so. They are set to grow dramatically. The smaller of the two, the volu…

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Ep26 Japan domestic and global green growth ambitions(?), ft Mika Ohbayashi 37:33

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) The Japanese government should be treating decarbonisation with the outmost importance and urgency. It is one of the largest energy consumers in the world – fifth largest oil consumer for example –and it is almost totally reliant on fossil fuel imports. The authorities did set out…

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Ep25 EV charging – one of the keys to Asia’s decarbonisation path, ft Vincent Yip 1:15:46

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) The Asian and global electric vehicle market is massive and growing fast. One of the many forecasts put the value of the sector to rise six-fold, to almost $1,110 billion by 2030 from about $180 million in 2021. Key to the growth of EVs, and thus to decarbonisation and the energy …

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Ep24 Real estate, smart cities and decarbonisation trends, ft Johan Tellvik 48:44

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) The real estate sector accounts for about two-fifths of global carbon dioxide emissions meaning it plays a direct key role in decarbonisation and a major indirect role in the energy transition. This is something particularly important to Asia given the region has eight of the top …

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Ep23 Temperature check on the energy transition in Asia, ft Mike Thomas 1:04:50

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) In Episode 23, the last for 2022, we measure the current temperature of the energy transition in some key Asia economies with one of the region’s most experienced and respected energy economist and consultant, Mike Thomas. He explains how the region is rapidly transitioning today …

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Ep22 Temperature check on Asia transitional finance, ft Anastasios Zavitsanakis 1:03:39

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) It is a ideal time to take a temperature check of the state of sustainable finance in Asia as the year draws to an end. The episode’s guest is an expert in all things sustainable finance given his background and interactions with regulators, corporations, and investors. Tasos Zavi…

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Ep21 Asia's sustainable finance elephant topic: insuring projects, ft Jan Napiorkowski 1:06:20

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Our guest is Jan Napiorkowski, global head of clean energy at Ariel Re. Jan first discusses his background and his work in insurance in clean energy, an area which is vital to sustainable finance. The elephant topic! Then we launch into two sections. In the first part of the episo…

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Ep20 Views from an energy transition tech provider ft Nicolas Leong 1:05:30

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Welcome to the 20th episode. Our guest is Nicolas Leong from Wärtsilä Energy, based in Tokyo. We first discuss the company, a leading technology provider, as a case study of a firm heavily involved in the energy transition and decarbonization in Asia. A firm which, amongst other t…

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Ep19 Major business and finance shifts in Australia, Singapore clean energy, ft Andrew Koscharsky 49:16

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Andrew Koscharsky, Energy Markets Project Director at Australia’s Squadron Energy, shares his views on Singapore as a Asian clean energy hub at the operational level and at the sustainable finance levels. We compare and contrast two highly different clean energy markets Singapore …

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Ep18 Climate finance and Asian corporates’ net zero journey, ft Piers Touzel 32:27

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Brief yet comprehensive discussion on current developments in climate finance in mainland China, Hong Kong, in Taiwan. We first touch on the recent evolution of international Environmental and Social Performance Standards related to project financing. We then discuss what internat…

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Ep17 How is the financing of Southeast Asia’s energy transition progressing, ft John Yeap 1:02:02

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) Southeast Asia is a massively important region given its population of almost 700 million and fast-growing energy consumption of 30 exajoules – the EU’s was 57 EJ. Many of the individual economies in the region are in the process of decarbonizing. Given the bulk of them are still …

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Ep16 An inside view to China clean power trading, ft Fulvio Bartolucci 1:04:55

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Email comments or guest ideas (to reply, include your email address) SUMMARY. We discuss with Fulvio Bartolucci the current state as well as the future of renewable energy trading in the world’s largest electric power market, China. Fulvio, a highly experienced industry participant and GM at Tera Energies, first provides his insights on the nation'…