Climate Finance Podcast

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Matt Tilleard is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of CrossBoundary. CrossBoundary is an investment firm that focuses on renewable energy investments in developing countries and fragile and conflict states. So far, CrossBoundary has advised in over $700m of closed transactions, and has a pipeline of commercial and industrial projects worth over $100m. CrossBoundary is also pioneering an open source infrastructure investing methodology for scaling mini grid implementation.

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Topics discussed:

• Matt’s journey from an environmental science and law student in Australia to working in Afghanistan and co-founding CrossBoundary.
• Importance of context, humility, and using a bottom up  private sector approach in developing countries. 
• CrossBoundary’s localized talent recruiting strategy.
• Looking for opportunities through maximum disillusion mode.
• CrossBoundary’s research with IFC on investment flows into Fragile and Conflict states.
• CrossBoundary’s Investment Facilitation Revisited report
• How Crossboundary interacts with development finance institutions via blended finance structures.
• CrossBoundary Energy - Commercial and Industrial projects
• More than 600 million Africans lack access to electricity
• CrossBoundary Energy Access - Open Sourcing Infrastructure Investing for Mini Grids
• CrossBoundary Lab Publications
• Scaling-Up Investment for Economic Recovery and Jobs in Africa
• Personal life advice: Identifying purpose and combining it with intentional and deliberate work.

Note: This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as investment advice. The interview took place on 27th August 2021.

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Mark van Baal is the Founder of Follow This. Follow This has over 7000 green shareholders and engages with oil and gas companies, such as Shell, Equinor, BP, and Chevron, via shareholder resolutions. The purpose of Follow This is to unite responsible shareholders and push Big Oil to go green by aligning to the Paris Climate targets.

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Topics discussed:

• Mark’s journey from a mechanical engineering student to a journalist and a shareholder activist
• Founding and evolution of Follow This from 2015 onwards
• Initial struggles with filing shareholder resolutions 
• Lessons learnt from interacting with Shell and expansion towards other Big Oil giants.  
• Goldilocks Trojan Horse
• How shareholder resolutions and Big Oil climate strategy analysis are written.   
• Follow This framework - SATIE (Scope 3, Ambitions, Target, Investments, and Emissions).  
• Follow This collaboration with major institutional investors.
• Follow This on the IPCC AR6 WG1 report.
• How Big Oil can make or break the Paris agreement.
• How the youth perceive Big Oil leadership.
• Reflection on 2021 shareholder resolutions.
• Differences in shareholder resolution results between Europe and the United States. 
• How to become a green shareholder at Follow This? (Lowest price is 9 Euros for a BP share)

Note: This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as investment advice. The interview took place on 13th August 2021 and Jonas became a Follow This shareholder on 4th September 2021.