Paul Bodnar, Bezos Earth Fund, on Climate, Nature, and Catalytic Capital

What’s at stake for climate and nature in the current political

environment? Listen to Jason Mitchell discuss with Paul Bodnar, Bezos Earth

Fund, about the vital role of philanthropic capital; the mission of the Bezos

Earth Fund; and how its thinks about funding efforts across mitigation and

adaptation as well as the Global North and Global South.

Note: This episode was recorded prior to the recent US election.

Paul Bodnar is the Director of Sustainable Finance, Industry, and Diplomacy at the Bezos Earth Fund. He most recently served as Global Head of Sustainable Investing at BlackRock, where he helped build the firm's $500 billion sustainable funds business. Prior to Blackrock, Paul was Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Council member at RMI (formerly Rocky Mountain Institute), where he founded the Center for Climate-Aligned Finance. Paul served in the Obama White House as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change at the National Security Council. Prior to that, Paul served at the State Department as US lead negotiator for climate finance.