Is the pursuit of perfection stalling the global climate transition?
Finance innovator Riddhima Yadav examines why the climate movement's focus on purity may be inadvertently starving the industries essential for a green future. This talk explores the uncomfortable necessity of engaging with heavy polluters and emerging markets to fund progress.
Drawing on her experience with the world's largest banks and wealth funds, Yadav identifies a recurring pattern in climate finance: a preference for perfection over tangible progress. This mindset risks withholding the capital required by the very sectors that need to transition most.
The video argues that achieving a clean energy future may require an uncomfortable strategy: working directly with heavy polluters and emerging markets rather than bypassing them.
Source: Riddhima Yadav: The purity test that's killing clean energy
