Catalyzing Markets toward Sustainability, with Kyung-Ah Park




Resources Radio show

Summary: This week, host Kristin Hayes talks with Kyung-Ah Park, who leads environmental markets and innovation in the newly formed sustainable finance group at Goldman Sachs; she also serves on the board of RFF. Previously, Park headed the Environmental Markets Group at Goldman Sachs. As the episode title suggests, their conversation focuses on the potential to catalyze markets toward further investments in environmentally beneficial products and services. Hayes and Park talk about the definition of environmental markets and why markets matter in driving change at the scales needed. An edited transcript of this episode also is available as an article in issue 202 of "Resources" magazine: https://www.resourcesmag.org/print-issues/issue-202-satellites-help-keep-communities-safe-toxic-algal-blooms/ References and recommendations: "The Uninhabitable Earth" by David Wallace-Wells; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586541/the-uninhabitable-earth-by-david-wallace-wells/