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1 month ago | 
marketplace.org | Reema Khrais |Zoe Saunders |Hayley Hershman |Alice Wilder
Have you ever wrestled with a work problem and didn’t know where to turn? “This Is Uncomfortable” host Reema Khrais is tackling listeners’ questions about sticky work problems in our new series, “Work Drama.” For this first installment, she’s joined by career coach and host of the Brown Ambition podcast, Mandi Woodruff-Santos. This week’s submissions run the gamut: One listener is dealing with their toxic bosses and the damage they leave in their wake.
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2 months ago | 
marketplace.org | Amy Scott |Caitlin Esch |Hayley Hershman |Sophia Paliza-Carre
Can we invest our way out of the climate crisis? That’s the question we started this series with, and in this episode, we try to answer that question. So far, we’ve been talking about the trillions of dollars of investor capital that could fund climate solutions or keep fueling the crisis. But what about our own money? What can we as individuals do to protect our savings from climate risk and not contribute to the problem?
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2 months ago | 
marketplace.org | Amy Scott |Caitlin Esch |Hayley Hershman |Sophia Paliza-Carre
Over the past few years, ESG investing has moved from a mainstream strategy promoted by the biggest asset managers in the world to a polarizing topic. Financial firms have scrubbed the acronym from their websites, dropped out of net-zero initiatives, and stopped advertising their climate efforts. Some have proclaimed ESG dead and buried. But if so, who killed it and why? The pushback to ESG gained steam in 2021, when Texas passed Senate Bill 13, an anti-ESG law.
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2 months ago | 
marketplace.org | Amy Scott |Caitlin Esch |Hayley Hershman
About five years ago, environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing was all the rage. It’s a strategy that considers how issues like climate change might affect investments in the future. But long before ESG was a concept adopted by Wall Street, there were smaller investors weighing environmental and social issues: Religious investors. Sister Pat Daly, a Dominican nun from Caldwell, New Jersey, was a trailblazer among faith-based investors.
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2 months ago | 
marketplace.org | Amy Scott |Caitlin Esch |Hayley Hershman |Sophia Paliza-Carre
Can capitalism save us from the climate crisis? In 2020 it seemed like the answer was “possibly.” That year, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink shook up the investment world in his annual letter to companies, in which he made climate change a major focus.
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2 months ago | 
marketplace.org | Amy Scott |Caitlin Esch |Hayley Hershman |Sophia Paliza-Carre
In 2020, an investment strategy was all the rage on Wall Street: ESG, or environmental, social and governance investing. It’s a wonky term with a simple premise: Companies that manage the risks and opportunities posed by societal issues like climate change will perform better, especially in the long term. For a moment, it seemed Wall Street could be part of the solution to the climate crisis, driving companies to decarbonize — if not to save the planet, to protect their own bottom lines.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | Hayley Hershman |Kai Ryssdal
In this episode of “Burning Questions,” host Amy Scott talks with Washington Post climate reporter Shannon Osaka to unpack what a second Donald Trump administration means for climate policy, how state climate measures performed, and what President Joe Biden might do in the remainder of his term.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | Caitlin Esch |Hayley Hershman |Chris Julin |Kai Ryssdal
Note: Marketplace podcasts are meant to be heard, with emphasis, tone and audio elements a transcript can’t capture. Transcripts are generated using a combination of automated software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting it. Kai Ryssdal: Jake, we rolling? All right. Hayley Hershman: You’re not as nervous this time around? Kai Ryssdal: I don’t know. I don’t know. We’ll see. You know you’re a known quantity now, Hayley.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | Caitlin Esch |Hayley Hershman |Chris Julin |Kai Ryssdal
Note: Marketplace podcasts are meant to be heard, with emphasis, tone and audio elements a transcript can’t capture. Transcripts are generated using a combination of automated software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting it. Kai Ryssdal: We learned back in the very first episode of this season that the Pentagon’s been researching climate change since the 1950s, the Navy technically. Shouldn’t be a surprise, right?
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | Hayley Hershman |Kai Ryssdal
Far out in the Pacific Ocean, halfway between Hawaii and Australia, is the Kwajalein atoll. Part of the Marshall Islands, Kwajalein is home to an important U.S. military base where missiles are tested. For the latest season of Marketplace’s climate solutions podcast, “How We Survive,” host Kai Ryssdal trekked across the Pacific to understand how climate change is impacting this vulnerable part of the world as well as U.S. national security.
