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Turbo Impact

Turbo Impact

By: Turbo Net Zero
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Turbo Impact is a podcast by Turbo Net Zero, exploring how sustainability shapes private capital. We bring together top investors, institutional allocators, and entrepreneurs to discuss how sustainability influences investment and corporate strategies. Each episode dives into real-world insights on integrating sustainability in private capital. Turbo Impact features candid conversations with industry leaders who turn sustainability challenges into strategic opportunities and meaningful impact.Turbo Net Zero Corporation Economics
Episodes
  • Shami Nissan: Evolving the Blueprint for Sustainable Infrastructure
    Jun 30 2026

    In this episode of Turbo Impact, Shami Nissan, Head of Sustainability at Actis, joins host Kenny Chen to discuss how sustainability is reshaping the way infrastructure investors build, operate, and scale long-duration assets. For Actis, the starting point is clear: sustainability must protect value, create value, and support better long-term investment outcomes.

    Grounded in Actis’ “values drive value” philosophy, Shami explains how sustainability can move from principle to practice when it is embedded into investment judgment, asset resilience, and operating performance. The conversation extends this lens to the next generation of infrastructure, including sustainable data centers amid rising AI-driven demand and the use of technology to strengthen resilience across physical assets.

    Key Topics Covered

    • The shift from sustainability process to sustainability as investment discipline
    • Climate resilience as a core driver of long-term infrastructure value
    • Community trust as a material factor in infrastructure execution and risk management
    • Sustainable data centers amid rising AI-driven demand for power, water, and digital capacity
    • Technology’s role in improving infrastructure resilience, operating performance, and measurable impact

    Who Should Listen:

    Private capital managers, institutional allocators, and corporate leaders

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    31 mins
  • Suzanne Tavill: Leading the Next Chapter of Responsible Investment
    May 25 2026

    In this episode of Turbo Impact, Suzanne Tavill, Partner and Global Head of Responsible Investment at StepStone Group, joins host Kenny Chen to reflect on where responsible investment in private markets stands today, and what its next chapter may require. Suzanne describes an industry moving past the belief that frameworks and reporting alone can define progress. The more important question now is whether responsible investment can be translated into disciplined judgment, credible execution, and better long-term businesses.

    For Suzanne, this shift demands a more practical and leadership-driven approach. GPs need to start with where they can genuinely make a difference, build capabilities that match their strategy, and ensure sustainability is understood by investment teams as part of value creation, not as a separate workstream. The conversation also explores how LP–GP engagement must become more focused on outcomes and evidence, why technology and AI are now central to responsible investment, and why empowered individuals remain essential to driving change, even in a more technology-enabled world.

    Key Topics Covered

    • Why responsible investment is entering a more mature phase focused on value creation
    • How GPs can identify where they can credibly make a difference across their portfolios
    • What distinguishes sustainability as investment judgment from sustainability as process
    • How LP–GP engagement can move toward more focused, outcome-oriented dialogue
    • Why leadership, talent, and responsible technology will shape the next chapter of the field

    Who Should Listen:

    Private capital managers, institutional allocators, and corporate leaders

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    Produced by: Turbo Net Zero

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    27 mins
  • Liza Jansen: Financing the Transition
    May 11 2026

    In this episode of Turbo Impact, Liza Jansen, CFA, Head of Responsible Investment at Prudential, joins host Kenny Chen to discuss how responsible investment needs to evolve in markets where the transition is not only a climate challenge, but also a development, capital allocation, and risk management challenge. Drawing on Prudential’s perspective as an asset owner across Asia and Africa, Liza explains why emerging markets require a more nuanced approach than simply applying developed-market frameworks, exclusion policies, or uniform decarbonization pathways.

    For Liza, credible transition finance starts with understanding where capital can create real influence. In many emerging markets, the opportunity set is rarely a clean split between “green” and “brown.” The conversation explores Prudential’s focus on a just and inclusive transition, its “transitioning amidst growth” framework, and the governance required to ensure flexibility does not become a weaker standard. It is a practical leadership conversation on how asset owners can stay disciplined, support real-economy transition, and avoid leaving behind the markets that will determine whether global net zero remains achievable.

    Key Topics Covered

    • Responsible investment through the lens of emerging market development and transition realities
    • The limits of exclusion-led approaches when capital is most needed for real-economy change
    • What “transitioning amidst growth” means for companies balancing decarbonization with rising demand
    • The role of governance, KPIs, monitoring, and stewardship in credible transition strategies
    • Why emerging market finance is becoming central to long-term climate risk management

    Who Should Listen:

    Private capital managers, institutional allocators, and corporate leaders

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    Produced by: Turbo Net Zero

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    34 mins
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