As ESG debates evolve and financial materiality moves to the forefront, the issues shaping company performance are becoming clearer — and more consequential. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s ESG Currents podcast, BI’s director of ESG research Eric Kane is joined by the analysts who hosted the show throughout the year to break down the ESG forces most likely to influence markets in 2026. Grace Osborne, Rob Du Boff, Melanie Rua, Andy Stevenson, Gail Glazerman, Yasutake Homma, Chris Ratti, Conrad Tan and Shaheen Contractor discuss sustainable debt in emerging markets, shareholder activism, water scarcity, climate damages, the ESG implications of AI, carbon removal, sustainable funds and more.

The episode was recorded on Dec. 9.

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Achieving 2030 targets associated with the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals could cost trillions of dollars. The Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI), founded in 2020 by then-Prince Charles, aims to mobilize capital markets toward these targets. On this episode of the ESG Currents podcast, Bloomberg Intelligence ESG analysts Gail Glazerman and Rob Du Boff speak with SMI CEO Jennifer Jordan-Saifi about the organization’s progress and the private-market shift from communicating ambitions to delivering. This episode was recorded Nov. 18.

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How does good food shape global climate policy? And how has climate science evolved in the decade since the Paris Agreement? In this ESG Currents episode, Winston Chow, Professor of Urban Climate at Singapore Management University and Co-Chair of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II, joins Bloomberg Intelligence ESG Analyst Conrad Tan to discuss the art of building trust as a climate diplomat, why food is his secret weapon, and why the world's top climate body plans to add a chapter on finance in its upcoming reports. He also explains the use of shared socioeconomic pathways in climate modeling and how scientific assessments of climate impacts can help businesses distinguish signal from noise.

This episode was recorded on Oct. 22.

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