This Week in Impact

For Earth Day, Dianne Dillon-Ridgley joins host Monique Aiken to reflect on her four decades working in finance and on environmental and human rights issues. Dillon-Ridgley is the chair of the board of the Intentional Endowments Network, and has served on 23 US delegations to the UN, including the first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Plus, Monique has the headlines.

"Net zero is not going to get us anywhere,” Ariane Mahler of Veridien Global Investors tells David Bank on this week's podcast. “You need negative emissions, not just net zero.” Veridien’s forthcoming exchange-traded fund (ticker: CLIA) will include names in construction, waste management, agriculture and forestry as well as transportation and energy that “have as their main focus the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.” Plus, Brian Walsh has the headlines. Links: Veridien Global Investors: https://www.veridienglobalinvestors.com/ Climate Risk Analytics: https://www.urgentem.net/ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/

The Turner Miint’s Adwoa Asare joins co-hosts Monique Aiken and Brian Walsh to talk about training the next generation of impact investors – and the winners of this year’s competition. Plus the headlines.

From Austin, ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price joins host Brian Walsh to discuss Texas’s surprising role as the U.S.’s leader in clean energy – and how the oil-pumping state might still wrest defeat from the jaws of victory. Plus, the headlines. Check up on this week's Agents of Impact Call at impactalpha.com/calls

Host Monique Aiken has the headlines and Atlas Impact Partners’ Robert Brown and ImpactAlpha contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith join David Bank to parse how bank failures and interest rate hikes have changed the dynamics of impact investing – perhaps forever. “The current iteration of impact investors and advocates – those seeking to redirect large pools of capital – has thrived in the context of low rates, steady economic growth, stable geopolitical environment and favorable regulatory environment,” Brown says. “Throw all that out the window.”

As  mayor of Salt Lake County a decade ago, Ben McAdams was frustrated that  there wasn’t $500,000 in a $1.3 billion annual budget for a promising  early childhood education program (instead he helped craft one of the  country’s first social impact bonds).  But an effort he led to map the value of the city’s underutilized real  estate yielded an impressive number: at least $15 billion, and up to $45  billion if properties are developed thoughtfully. “I found out there is  actually money under our mattress,” McAdams tells David Bank on this week’s Impact Briefing podcast. “It's real estate that is just forgotten.”

2x Global’s Sana Kapadia joins host Monique Aiken to ring in Women’s History Month and talk about the state of gender-lens investing. Plus, the headlines. Relevant links from Sana: Website  Inclusive climate and gender finance report and launch event (March 14th) The Forum Currently hiring a climate lead

Impact Engine’s Priya Parrish joins David Bank to explain why purpose built investment firms end up with better impact outcomes than purpose driven firms. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines.

The roundtable – that’s Brian Walsh, Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank – is back together to discuss private equity and, specifically, that $4.5 billion investment made by the investment office of the University of California’s Board of Regents into the Blackstone Real Estate Investment Trust. Plus, the headlines. Don't forget to email us (podcast@impactalpha.com) with your feedback, and check out the replay of The Call: impactalpha.com/calls

Project Equity’s Alison Lingane talks with ImpactAlpha’s David Bank about the growing popularity of employee ownership as a strategy for  generating wealth and democratizing the economy.  And, host Monique Aiken has the headlines.