Building Bridges is proud to launch the Building Bridges 2025 Podcast season, recorded live around the Sixth Edition of Building Bridges and the second season in collaboration with The Geneva Connection. This new season brings together senior voices shaping the global sustainable finance agenda, capturing the most important conversations from our flagship conference.

Hosted by Patrick Odier, Chairman of Building Bridges, and Karen Hitschke, CEO of Building Bridges, the series explores innovative solutions and investment opportunities across sustainable finance, innovation and impact data, resilience in the built economy, fiduciary duty, and the shifting dynamics of global markets.

The season brings together perspectives from across the ecosystem: senior figures from global financial institutions, policymakers shaping the regulatory environment, pioneers in climate and biodiversity data, leading voices from international organisations, and practitioners working on the front lines in emerging markets. Each episode pairs voices from different sectors to challenge assumptions, uncover tensions, and highlight where collaboration can unlock the most impact. Amid political headwinds and urgent capital needs, these conversations explore what it will take to scale credible opportunities, mobilise investment, and turn innovative ideas into market reality.

This season highlights the pathways through which sustainable finance can drive systemic change, unlock growth, and support long-term prosperity.

Episode 1 | Unstoppable: The Next Chapter of Sustainable Finance

Building Bridges 2025 Podcast season opens with a candid conversation on where sustainable finance stands today. John Kerry, former U.S. Secretary of State and Co-Executive Chair of Galvanize, and Rhian-Mari Thomas, CEO of the Green Finance Institute, join Patrick Odier, Chairman of Building Bridges, to examine the shifting landscape of sustainable finance — from political headwinds and public polarisation to the credibility gap between ambition and investable opportunities.

Together, they discuss record flows into clean energy, the evolution of ESG, and the urgent challenge of directing capital toward early-stage solutions and emerging markets.

The season is available as audio on Spotify and Apple podcast platforms and, for the first time, as a special video edition.

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Watch the full conversation on: https://www.youtube.com/@TheGenevaConnection.

Listen to The Geneva Connection on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Learn more: Visit the Geneva Connection website.