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Jeff Currie, Global Head of Commodities Research at Goldman Sachs

A superb, hour-long discussion with Commodity Legend, Jeff Currie. This episode sheds light on the politics and market issues facing the investment community in committing fully to renewable energy technologies. Jeff’s commentary helps listeners understand the difficulties in pricing carbon, and why a carbon price is crucial to advancing ESG standards. He delves into the role governments and policy plays in establishing rules for carbon emissions, and helping the market discover a price for emitting carbon into our environment. Jeff focuses our attention on the reality that, to properly incentivise investment in renewable energy technologies, the first step is a clear  mechanism to price carbon.

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The Mercurial Rise of ESG on Wall Street

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The second thing to do is pick your spots earlier. You talked about silos, you talked about buckets, instead of showing us a fund, tell us what you like in the market right now. We found a lot of renewable developers that are stranded. They have got great projects lined up interconnection agreements, land, purchase agreements, and the market. They think they will eventually sell them, but they need debt. We want to be a senior lender because we can, we think we can get them attractive terms and collateral that we think is great, but banks don’t understand and that ability to provide that insight number one, number two is sweat, at the end of the day, one of the most renewable resources, pun modestly intended on investing in these assets is if you can put in the work, that’s a sustainable way to have advantage.
I think back to what is next. I think investors need to be ready to have cleared the underbrush, have the thesis and really do the work to be able to still find edge, still find value and still make good investments against that backdrop.

The Mercurial Rise of ESG on Wall Street

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The second thing to do is pick your spots earlier. You talked about silos, you talked about buckets, instead of showing us a fund, tell us what you like in the market right now. We found a lot of renewable developers that are stranded. They have got great projects lined up interconnection agreements, land, purchase agreements, and the market. They think they will eventually sell them, but they need debt. We want to be a senior lender because we can, we think we can get them attractive terms and collateral that we think is great, but banks don’t understand and that ability to provide that insight number one, number two is sweat, at the end of the day, one of the most renewable resources, pun modestly intended on investing in these assets is if you can put in the work, that’s a sustainable way to have advantage.
I think back to what is next. I think investors need to be ready to have cleared the underbrush, have the thesis and really do the work to be able to still find edge, still find value and still make good investments against that backdrop.

The Mercurial Rise of ESG on Wall Street

by

The second thing to do is pick your spots earlier. You talked about silos, you talked about buckets, instead of showing us a fund, tell us what you like in the market right now. We found a lot of renewable developers that are stranded. They have got great projects lined up interconnection agreements, land, purchase agreements, and the market. They think they will eventually sell them, but they need debt. We want to be a senior lender because we can, we think we can get them attractive terms and collateral that we think is great, but banks don’t understand and that ability to provide that insight number one, number two is sweat, at the end of the day, one of the most renewable resources, pun modestly intended on investing in these assets is if you can put in the work, that’s a sustainable way to have advantage.
I think back to what is next. I think investors need to be ready to have cleared the underbrush, have the thesis and really do the work to be able to still find edge, still find value and still make good investments against that backdrop.

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The Mercurial Rise of ESG on Wall Street

by

The second thing to do is pick your spots earlier. You talked about silos, you talked about buckets, instead of showing us a fund, tell us what you like in the market right now. We found a lot of renewable developers that are stranded. They have got great projects lined up interconnection agreements, land, purchase agreements, and the market. They think they will eventually sell them, but they need debt. We want to be a senior lender because we can, we think we can get them attractive terms and collateral that we think is great, but banks don’t understand and that ability to provide that insight number one, number two is sweat, at the end of the day, one of the most renewable resources, pun modestly intended on investing in these assets is if you can put in the work, that’s a sustainable way to have advantage.
I think back to what is next. I think investors need to be ready to have cleared the underbrush, have the thesis and really do the work to be able to still find edge, still find value and still make good investments against that backdrop.

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The Mercurial Rise of ESG on Wall Street

Oct 26, 2021

The second thing to do is pick your spots earlier. You talked about silos, you talked about buckets, instead of showing us a fund, tell us what you like in the market right now. We found a lot of renewable developers that are stranded. They have got great projects lined up interconnection agreements, land, purchase agreements, and the market. They think they will eventually sell them, but they need debt. We want to be a senior lender because we can, we think we can get them attractive terms and collateral that we think is great, but banks don’t understand and that ability to provide that insight number one, number two is sweat, at the end of the day, one of the most renewable resources, pun modestly intended on investing in these assets is if you can put in the work, that’s a sustainable way to have advantage.
I think back to what is next. I think investors need to be ready to have cleared the underbrush, have the thesis and really do the work to be able to still find edge, still find value and still make good investments against that backdrop.

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