CREtech Climate Podcast

CREtech Climate Podcast

The CREtech Climate Cast is a podcast series devoted to educating, inspiring, and leading the built environment to address the world’s biggest crisis - climate change. Tune in to in-depth conversations with the leading real estate and tech innovators from across the globe with CREtech Climate CEO, Michael Beckerman. The series will host conversations on how the real estate and tech tech sectors are driving transformational change to decarbonize the Built World.

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CREtech Climate Podcast
  • Alex Edds - ESG Marketplace Trends and Priorities

    Alex Edds, Head of Sustainability, Europe, LaSalle Investment Management, discusses how technology can better align to the market needs to support sustainability, the challenges facing the industry, the need to accelerate and scale solutions, and the influence of the 'greening' financial markets ...

  • Christy Hill - ESG Technology Trends in Practice

    Christy Hill, Head of Americas Asset Management and Global Head of ESG, PGIM Real Estate, walks us through some examples of how PGIM has embedded sustainability throughout the company and its portfolio, discusses how other real estate companies that are inspired by PGIM's ESG initiatives can craf...

  • Rachel Steinberg - Decarbonization Made Accessible in Commercial Buildings

    Rachel Steinberg, Head of Mesa (part of Google), walks us through Mesa’s overall mission of offering accessible building controls to an underserved market, how Mesa automates carbon reduction in commercial buildings and the technology trends she sees evolving in real estate sustainability.

  • Shaun Abrahamson - Building A Better World For Everyone

    Shaun Abrahamson, Managing Partner of Third Sphere (fka Urban Us), walks us through the process of finding climate tech companies to invest in, the risks of investing in climate tech, and how we can vastly increase the market for climate tech by educating the built world.

  • Troy Harris - Trees for Climate Change

    Troy Harris, Managing Director of Timberland at Jamestown, discusses what Timberland investment is and how it differs from real estate investment, the role of trees in fighting the climate crisis, and some popular misconceptions about forestry in the United States.

  • Spencer Levy - Accelerating the ESG Agenda

    Spencer Levy, Global Chief Client Officer and Senior Economic Advisor at CBRE, discusses the significance of ESG in conversations about modern day investing, how PropTech is propelling investment ESG, why some areas are slower to embrace climate regulations than others, and how we can push the en...

  • Marika Erdely - Steering the Real Estate Industry in the Right Direction

    Marika Erdely, Founder and CEO of Green EconoME, shares insights into how we can reduce the carbon emissions of existing buildings, how to push the real estate industry to go green, and the biggest challenges when sourcing funding for climate change investments.

  • Hampus Jakobsson - Improving Tech, Together

    Hampus Jakobsson, General Partner, Pale blue dot, speaks on why the climate industry is so interesting, problems that climate tech companies face today, and why the whole industry needs to work together in order to make progress.

  • Mike Moran - The Reward for Reaching Net Zero

    Mike Moran, Chief Markets Officer at Microshare, discusses how climate change is becoming much more relevant in global business conversations, why hopping on the “climate change bandwagon” is a good business decision, and how the younger generations are impacting the world of climate tech.

  • Laura Craft - Leading the Way in ESG Based Investing

    Laura Craft, Senior Vice President and Head of Global ESG Strategy at Heitman, discusses how Heitman uses the resources available for a major global investor to improve carbon emissions, the importance of ESG within modern day investment, and how investment managers assess climate risk and mitiga...

  • Matthew Plante - Pressing Fast-Forward on the Future

    Matthew Plante, Co-Founder and President of Voltus, Inc, walks us through the journey of his company, how they were able to grow in the clean-tech industry, and how they are accelerating the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

  • Ami Kotecha - Striving for Sustainability

    Ami Kotecha, Co-Founder & Head of Venture Investments at Amro Partners, discusses how they are making the real estate industry more sustainable, why investing in the environment is a profitable business model, and where the most room for growth is within the world of climate technology.

  • Josh Griffin - Setting the Standard for Carbon Emissions Data

    Josh Griffin, Co-Founder and Chief Policy Officer of nZero, describes how their technology helps companies reach their carbon emission goals while also helping policy makers create positive changes in local and state government.

  • Parag Khanna - Educating the Ecosystem

    Michael Beckerman, CEO, CREtech & Climate sits down with Parag Khanna, Founder and Managing Partner, FutureMap, to unpack the inspiration and drive behind Parag's international best-selling book, ‘Move: The Forces Uprooting Us’. Parag also shares insight on his recent launch of new technology sol...

  • Jacob Arlein - The Fight Against Climate Change

    Jacob Arlein, CEO of Stok, walks us through projects they are most proud of and how that work has impacted the sustainability of their client’s real estate, the best practices and technologies they have seen in the market and sustainability initiatives they have and are implementing at Stok.

  • Raphael Rosen - Pathway to Decarbonization & Net Zero

    Raphael Rosen, CEO of Carbon Lighthouse, shares insights behind his technology solution, how it is unique in the marketplace and how we address the climate crisis with a greater sense of urgency that it needs.

  • Natalie Teear - Culture for Climate Change

    Natalie Teear, Senior VP, Innovation, Sustainability & Social Impact of Hudson Pacific Properties, unpacks how they built and implemented a sustainability and socially responsible culture. Natalie also highlights the company’s 2020 corporate responsibility report, including plans to achieve the g...

  • Dan Doctoroff - Tackling Cities’ Greatest Challenges

    Dan Doctoroff, Founder & CEO of Sidewalk Labs, discusses the big vision that formed Sidewalk Labs and the connection with Google that made them the ideal partner. Dan also shares their mission at Sidewalk Labs and his thoughts on the role the public sector will play in legislating net zero commit...

  • Brett Phillips - Sustainability in Solar

    Brett Phillips, Vice President of Unico Properties | Unico Solar Investors, discusses the strategy behind the formation of Unico Solar in 2017, the impact that the solar industry has on an eventual net-zero world and insights into their high-profile project, Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle.

  • Becca Rushin - Implementing Sustainability & Social Responsibility

    Becca Rushin, VP Sustainability & Social Responsibility at Jamestown provides an overview on why sustainability is an integral part of Jamestown’s mission and why companies should be investing in climate technologies and social responsibility. Becca also shares how technology plays a role in sust...

  • David Harris Kolada - Green Tech Investing

    David Kolada, Managing Partner of Greensoil PropTech Ventures discusses their new $100m green PropTech fund, what types of investments they will be making and some of the startups they have invested in. David also shares insights into scaling climate tech in the built environment.

  • Nikolas Samios - Leading The Way In Europe

    Nikolas Samios, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of PropTech1, takes a deep dive into why Europe is leading the way in addressing climate change and an overview of what they look for when investing in early-stage companies.

  • Travis Connors - Investing In A Better Built World

    Travis Connors, Co-Founder and General Partner of Building Ventures, sheds light on their investment process, what types of investments they are looking for in the climate tech space and advice for first-time entrepreneurs entering the climate tech industry.

  • Emilie Mazzacurati - Understanding Climate Risk

    Emilie Mazzacurati, Founder & CEO of Four Twenty Seven and Global Head of Climate Solutions at Moody's ESG Solutions, discusses how risk management and mitigation is equally important in the fight against the impacts of climate change.