
From Mud Huts to Brick Houses: Venture Capital & Climate Resilience in Africa (#127)
“I didn’t know why they hired me until maybe ten years later, when my manager said, ‘I hired people for what they can learn, not

“I didn’t know why they hired me until maybe ten years later, when my manager said, ‘I hired people for what they can learn, not

“We know that we can achieve alpha by investing in inclusive teams. Teams that are inclusive of men and women outperform both for innovation more

“I just believe capital can do more than just create alpha. We’ve been doing the alpha part with reasonable success at T Rowe for ninety

“Climate change is here. It’s not going to happen in 10 years time, or 20 years time. We are already being impacted. ” — Alina

“The sustainability bridge is not the destination. Sustainability is only promising survival and neutrality. It’s not acknowledging the historical debt we have to nature and

“We can’t continue to invest and generate economic activity without regard for social and environmental impacts, because we now have growing evidence of the costs

“There is no investment category in Latin America where you can scale environmental and social impact like agriculture. ” — Francisco Jardim In this episode,

“Catalytic capital is a subsidy, but a deliberate one. It exists to absorb constraints that institutional investors cannot hold because regulation, ratings, and liquidity rules

“At EFM, success means leaving a forest financially, ecologically, and socially more valuable than we found it. ” — Bettina von Hagen Forestry is often

“If I had to boil the problem Alante is trying to solve down to one word, it would be waste. Waste shows up everywhere, in
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