{"podcast":{"title":"Climate Rising","slug":"climate-rising-962161","podcast_index_feed_id":962161,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/TPG7476737324","website_url":"https://www.hbs.edu/environment/podcast/Pages/default.aspx","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/f929b798-02aa-11ed-8cfe-cf30d33bdedf/image/Climate_Rising_podcast_artwork.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Harvard Business School","episode_count":136,"summary":"Climate Rising is about the impact of climate change on business. It brings business and policy leaders and Harvard Business School faculty together to share insights about what businesses are doing, can do, and should do to confront climate change. It explores the many challenges and opportunities that climate change raises for managers, such as decisions about where they choose to locate, the technologies they develop and use, their strategies with respect to products, marketing, customer engagement, and policy—in other words, the full spectrum of business concerns.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-rising-962161"},"episode":{"title":"Investing in Climate Resilience and Poverty Alleviation: Acumen Founder & CEO Jacqueline Novogratz","slug":"investing-in-climate-resilience-and-poverty-alleviation-acumen-founder-ceo-jacqueline-novogratz","published_at":"2025-07-16T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-rising-962161/investing-in-climate-resilience-and-poverty-alleviation-acumen-founder-ceo-jacqueline-novogratz","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-rising-962161","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/tcQd6Q6C0RUUlOHq1Ytj/mgln.ai/e/51/traffic.megaphone.fm/TPG4206002374.mp3?updated=1750096892","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/tcQd6Q6C0RUUlOHq1Ytj/mgln.ai/e/51/traffic.megaphone.fm/TPG4206002374.mp3?updated=1750096892","summary":"In this Climate Rising episode in our series on climate resilience, Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Acumen shares how impact investing is agriculture is helping smallholder farmers build climate resilience. Jacqueline shares insights from two decades of investing in poverty alleviation that includes climate resilience and adaptation social enterprises engaging in agriculture and off-grid solar. She explains how Acumen uses blended capital, including philanthropic first-loss investments and commercial impact funding, to scale business models in underdeveloped markets where traditional investors hesitate. Jacqueline also shares examples of companies solving food insecurity and extreme climate risks for smallholder farmers and discusses how a “post-aid” world demands new tools, structures, and partnerships for impact investing.","meta_description":"In this Climate Rising episode in our series on climate resilience, Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Acumen shares how impact investing is agricul…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3444,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/climate-rising-962161/episodes/investing-in-climate-resilience-and-poverty-alleviation-acumen-founder-ceo-jacqueline-novogratz/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-rising-962161/investing-in-climate-resilience-and-poverty-alleviation-acumen-founder-ceo-jacqueline-novogratz.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}