S5E18 - How to Admit, Value, and actually Overcome the Economic Risk of Water - a podcast by Antoine Walter

with 🎙️ Nicola Lei Ravello - Author and Founder of White Stag Investing 

💧 White Stag Investing is a research platform for responsible investments, focusing on sustainability as a source of value and stability in the long term.

What we covered:

🌎 How the interaction between Water and the World as we know it relies on a fragile equilibrium 

🚰 How our whole economy builds upon a steady supply of water and how it could turn into an economic risk if it was to get disrupted 

🌊 How with Climate Change unfortunately here to stay, events of too little or too much water will multiply and what it involves 

⏰ How the acknowledgment of the economic risk of water is still embryonic and how stakeholders and decision makers may click too late 

💸 How mitigating the economic risk of water is fully doable, yet can be quite expensive 

📊 Why market forces can play their role to better value water and how 

📈 How we rely on probabilities and data to engineer our infrastructure as well as our financial portfolios and how the new unknowns create a new wave of risks 

🌱 How the world's economic risk is also a business opportunity for the Water Industry - and what we shall do to leverage it 

5️⃣ How there are five shades of investing in sustainability and what they are 

🔁 How ESG approaches change the way many finance players do their job 

🔥 How humanity has built its wealth around water in all its forms and how that may soon backfire 

🤖 How new technologies can have an effect at a planetary scale and what it involves in our approaches to it 

🛥️ How there's a relationship between building a ship and crossing the Atlantic as a Viking and modern investment approaches 

⚠️ Industries that are the most exposed to water risks, the available tools to measure it, the finance scene rapidly evolving, water wars and manufacturing peace, water from an indigenous perspective, making balanced investment decisions in an uncertain world, writing, educating… and much more!

🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥   

      

➡️ Come say hi to Nicola on LinkedIn              

➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on How the right investment strategy can help mitigate water's economic risk ! 

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