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Solving for Climate · Sep 2, 2025 · 38 min

Prof Alex Edmans: Does divestment from fossil fuels work?

Finance expert Professor Alex Edmans is sceptical that divesting from fossil fuels will make an impact and reduce carbon emissions. With his experience on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Responsible Investing, he chats to Hannah and Rob about how a carbon tax is a no brainer climate solution instead. Season four of Solving for Climate is sponsored by Xlinks xlinks.co Podcast transcripts available on Substack Professor Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School Co-hosts Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie Rob Stewart, Co-founder Stealth AI startup Subscribe to Hannah's Substack 'Sustainability by numbers' Want to get in touch? Email solvingforclimate@gmail.com Madeleine Drury, Series Producer Transcriptions available: https://solvingforclimate.substack.com/ Co-hosts Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba Subscribe to Hannah's Substack 'Sustainability by numbers' Want to get in touch? Email solvingforclimate@gmail.com Maddie Drury, Series Producer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Finance expert Professor Alex Edmans is sceptical that divesting from fossil fuels will make an impact and reduce carbon emissions. With his experience on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Responsible Investing, he chats to Hannah and Rob about how a carbon tax is a no brainer climate solution instead.


Season four of Solving for Climate is sponsored by Xlinks xlinks.co


Podcast transcripts available on Substack


Professor Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School


Co-hosts 


Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie 

Rob Stewart, Co-founder Stealth AI startup


Subscribe to Hannah's Substack 'Sustainability by numbers'

Want to get in touch? Email solvingforclimate@gmail.com


Madeleine Drury, Series Producer

Transcriptions available: https://solvingforclimate.substack.com/


Co-hosts 


Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie 

Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba


Subscribe to Hannah's Substack 'Sustainability by numbers'

Want to get in touch? Email solvingforclimate@gmail.com


Maddie Drury, Series Producer


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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