Carbon Confidential: A Conversation With Standard Chartered's CSO

For the inaugural episode of Carbon Confidential, CUR8 Co-Founder Dr. Gabrielle Walker sat down with Marisa Drew — Chief Sustainability Officer at Standard Chartered.

Most sustainability leaders come to the field from policy, academia, or activism. Marisa came from investment banking. After more than two decades in leveraged finance, she made a deliberate bet in 2017 that the tools of capital markets were exactly what sustainable finance was missing. She was right.

In this episode we cover:

• Why sustainability only scales when it makes commercial sense
• How Marisa brought the CFO function from sceptic to champion
• What's still missing from climate finance
• Why the companies waiting for the carbon removal market to mature are making a costly mistake

Watch the full conversation below.

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Register for Carbon Confidential with Paul Polman

Join us on July 28th for our next Carbon Confidential, this time with the formidable Paul Polman — former CEO of Unilever and one of the most influential voices on long-term value creation in global business. He spent a decade at Unilever proving that serving all your stakeholders  – employees, customers, suppliers, local communities, the planet and future generations – is the best way to ultimately serve your shareholders. Under his leadership, shareholder returns increased by 290% and Unilever consistently ranked first in the world for sustainability. Interested in joining us for this fireside chat? Register here.

Carbon Confidential is a CUR8 fireside chat series where senior sustainability leaders unpack their careers — how they have built and navigated the market, and the lessons they have learnt along the way.