Decoded x HERizon: Sustainable Finance, ESG & Decarbonisation

This episode opens our Decoded x HERizon event, recorded live with our associate team teaching before we sat down with Cary Krosinsky.

Vidyanshi breaks down ESG as a risk-assessment lens rather than a strategy, using Apple as a case study and digging into why ratings from agencies like MSCI and Sustainalytics rarely agree. She also covers the late 2025 backlash against sustainable funds and the rise of green hushing, where companies keep doing climate work while dropping the ESG language around it.

Aly Muhammad Dadwani follows with a look at global climate finance. Roughly two trillion dollars flowed into clean energy last year, almost double oil, gas, and coal combined, driven mainly by falling costs rather than policy. He also gets into the regulatory retreat happening on both sides of the Atlantic, from American banks walking away from climate pledges to the EU exempting most companies from detailed reporting.

Akshara closes it out with decarbonisation in practice, electrification, the shift to solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear, and why financial capital ultimately decides which technologies scale. She ties it back to Cary Krosinsky's book Transition Momentum, setting up the conversation in part two.

Recorded live at our event in partnership with HERizon.