Marco Monroy On Carbon Taxes, ESG Investing and Maradona

Marco is Founder and CEO of MGM Innova Group, which includes a private equity and green infrastructure fund, and a multinational firm specializing in integrated sustainability and climate change services that facilitate a transition towards a low carbon economy. Prior to that, he worked as an advisor on climate change issues to the Japanese government. In 2002, the World Economic Forum named Mr. Monroy one of the 100 Global Leaders of Tomorrow. In this podcast, we discuss:

1. Will climate change policies work?
2. The state-of-play in cap and trade and carbon taxes.
3. The importance of energy efficiency incentives.
4. Will the Biden administration make a difference?
5. What is climate finance?
6. Role of renewables and nuclear energy.
7. Landfill/carbon capture.
8. Investor flows into ESG and green bonds.
9. Books that influenced Marco: The Alchemist (Coelho), Outliers (Gladwell), Emotional Intelligence (Goleman), Man’s Search For Meaning (Frankl).