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Sustainability in Conversation | Climate Transition: Signals, Strategy, and Scale

Posted on June 25, 2026

Hosts:

  • Catalina Secreteanu, Managing Director, ESG Solutions, Europe, Morningstar Sustainalytics
  • Melissa Chase, Senior Content Marketing Manager, Morningstar Sustainalytics

Guests:

  • Thomas Hohne-Sparborth, Head of Sustainability Research, Lombard Odier
  • Alex Osborne-Saponja, Director, ESG Methodology, Morningstar Sustainalytics

On Aligning Capital With Climate Outcomes

This episode of Sustainability in Conversation focuses on investors and climate transition. We begin with an insightful conversation with Thomas Hohne-Sparborth, Head of Sustainability Research at Lombard Odier. He discusses how the asset management firm’s systems-level view of climate transition informs their investment strategy, and shares what that looks like in practice. 

Next, we chat with Alex Osborne-Saponja, Director of ESG Methodology at Sustainalytics and co-author of Transition or Illusion? What Capital Flows Reveal About Net Zero Credibility. Alex shares insights from the report, which examines capital expenditures as a key signal of corporate climate transition credibility. She details why capex is an important indicator and highlights a “mosaic approach” to analysis, combining multiple indicators to infer transition direction.  

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Key Moments

00:00:00 

Introduction 

00:03:38 

A conversation with Thomas Hohne-Sparborth 

00:17:14 

A conversation with Alex Osborne-Saponja 

00:34:00 

Sign off 

 

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