About the Podcast
The Financing a Sustainable Future Podcast is a series of discussions with leading LSE Academics on their research in Sustainable Finance. The discussions are intended to bring research findings to practitioners in a way that is comprehensible and actionable, while informing them of the state of the art in research in the sustainable finance field.
Tom Gosling, Professor in Practice at the Financial Markets Group, hosts the series, interviewing authors of academic papers to uncover their key insights.
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Episode 2: Sustainable investing: beliefs, constraints, and the limits of impact
Date: 2 September 2025
Tom Gosling speaks with Professor Dirk Jenter about what investors really believe about sustainability, how the constraints they face shape decisions, and why most aren’t willing to trade returns for impact. A candid look at the limits of sustainable investing today.
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Read the paper: Sustainable Investing in Practice: Objectives, Constraints, and Limits to Impact
Episode 1: The role of bank capital requirements in addressing climate change
Date: 23 July 2025
Tom Gosling interviews Professor Martin Oehmke on how bank capital rules might integrate climate risks. They debate whether rules can be used to incentivize green lending—or whether this would backfire—and why capital requirements can't play the same role as a carbon tax.
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Read the paper: Green capital Requirements
