As sustainable fixed-income markets continue to develop, debt instruments can actively drive impact. On this week’s episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s ESG Currents podcast Stephen Liberatore, head of ESG & Impact for Global Fixed Income at Nuveen, joins host Chris Ratti, BI ESG credit analyst, to discuss the state of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds.

This episode was recorded on July 10.

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Climeworks began operations in May at its largest direct air capture and storage facility to date. The Iceland plant has capacity to remove 36,000 metric tons of CO2 from the air per year. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s ESG Currents podcast, BI’s director of ESG research Eric Kane is joined by Climeworks CFO Andreas Aepli to discuss the company’s technology and how it plans to scale up to collect 1 million metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere a year by 2030. They also talk about the energy requirements of direct air capture, how the cost of the technology is changing, the importance of removal credits for CO2 and more.

This episode was recorded on June 20.

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There’s a very clear green premium for new operationally net zero carbon buildings, says Tom Walker, co-head of global listed real assets at Schroder Property Investment. With buildings accounting for 40% of global emissions, real estate is under pressure to stay ahead of environmental legislation. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s ESG Currents podcast, BI analyst Grace Osborne is joined by Walker and Vincent Van Bijleveld, the director of the Global Real Estate Engagement Network, to discuss the role of technology, relationships and capital spending in building a net zero world.
This conversation was recorded on July 2.

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