In the latest episode of Financing the Future, we speak to Frank Elderson, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank to discuss how prudential transition plans can help banks mobilize finance towards the transition, how banks can tackle physical risks going forward, how nature-related risks are being addressed and what is to come next.

Frank discusses how ECB banking supervision has worked intensively with the sector to improve preparedness to manage climate and nature-related risk, addresses what banks are doing well and where more progress in needed. He dives deep into prudential transition plans against the backdrop of the green transition and EU competitiveness, and how financing the gap for transition technologies could help meet the EU’s climate objectives.

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In this episode of Financing the Future, host Elliott Harris speaks with Carine Smith Ihenacho, Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund.

The conversation explores how long-term investors are navigating geopolitical volatility, regulatory shifts and the evolving ESG landscape while staying focused on financially material sustainability risks. Carine explains why climate risk remains financial risk, why investors must prioritize the issues that truly matter for value creation, and how consistency and long-term thinking are essential in a world of turbulence.

From active ownership and responsible AI to global disclosure standards and the energy transition, this episode examines how one of the world’s most influential investors approaches risk, opportunity and long-term returns.

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Launching ahead of COP30, join our first podcast episode of Season 2 - Raising Ambition on Climate Finance - featuring Rémy Rioux, CEO of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and Chair of Finance in Common. This first episode will explore how the global financial system can scale high-quality, long-term climate finance using a systems-level approach, new frameworks that can raise ambition and expectations from COP30.

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