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@sarthakpainuli4871
February 17, 2026 at 11:01 am
wow such an informative video
@PonderDuke
February 17, 2026 at 11:15 am
– 🌍 Climate finance in 2025 is seen as **insufficient, niche, and confusing**, yet it is essential to funding a clean growth economy.
– 💰 Global investment in the energy transition is just over **$1 trillion per year**, but it needs to reach **$3.5 trillion annually through 2050** to meet climate goals.
– ⚖ A major flaw in climate finance is prioritizing **perfection over progress**, labeling sectors as purely “green” or “gray” instead of embracing gradual transition.
– 🏭 Capital must flow not only to clean solutions but also to **heavy polluters and emerging markets**, since transforming them is critical for large-scale impact.
– ⏳ The developed world’s **$100 billion annual climate pledge** to developing countries was delayed by 13 years—highlighting slow action compared to the rapid $10 trillion COVID stimulus.
– 📚 Climate finance has grown heavy on **standards, taxonomies, and definitions**, but light on actual capital deployment.
– 💡 Transitioning assets (like replacing coal with renewables) can be **profitable for investors** while lowering emissions and costs—showing climate action is also a commercial opportunity.
– 🔒 Companies in high-emitting sectors often face a **“transition trap”**: investors avoid them due to coal exposure or net-zero targets, starving them of capital needed to decarbonize.
– 🤝 The key currency for the transition is **trust, not just capital**—especially between developed and developing nations wary of conditional or debt-raising finance.
– 🚀 Progress requires **faster, easier access to capital**, support for enabling infrastructure, and expanding what qualifies as investable.
– 🧠 Climate action demands collaboration: financiers must engage all sectors, activists must hold them accountable without exclusion, and everyone must act now—because progress beats waiting for perfection.
@ChrisPyle
February 17, 2026 at 11:34 am
Find a new hoax. Trust me, this one is cooked
@HappySlappii
February 17, 2026 at 11:19 am
Listen we want that money too..
@ChrisPyle
February 17, 2026 at 11:35 am
How about the developed world gave 100 billion to the undeveloped. Thanks?
@ChrisPyle
February 17, 2026 at 11:40 am
Investors care about reality. If anything the alarmists have said has come true, she’d have her “trust”. They haven’t. The alarmists have lied, Al Gore was in 1998 and now almost 30 years later, data, science and facts don’t support the claims.
@ba3787
February 18, 2026 at 11:51 pm
Well, it had happened. Climate change had contributed a lot to various recent events. It’s more of a “humans are a resilient species”
@BigOne-gn6qj
February 17, 2026 at 11:51 am
The Green New Scam Was a Disaster USA 🇺🇸
@christaylor9095
February 17, 2026 at 12:34 pm
O, look. A one year old profile with a one year old’s thought process. What a shock.
@KiefPackENTOfficial
February 20, 2026 at 12:21 pm
Way to make it past the 1st grade
@BigOne-gn6qj
February 20, 2026 at 12:27 pm
Click Me. Yeah i Did That To You. 🐅
@MrRoberthafetz
February 17, 2026 at 12:07 pm
Renewable energy cant meet the demand of AI and data banks cost too much and is not reliable. It will create an energy shortage catastrophe that will destroy any economy that depends on it. Nuclear and fossil fuels are the answer. The country that goes this way will suck the manufacturing away from green energy nations
@brightpurpleviking
February 17, 2026 at 2:26 pm
EXACTLY. The data and science proves it. But it sure is triggering a lot of people if the truth is pointed out.
@chasmenear7130
February 17, 2026 at 12:31 pm
The Trump ‘administration’ is killing clean energy.
@Mentaculus42
February 17, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Clean energy or Green energy? There is a massive distinction! Trump has been very hard on green but not nearly as much on clean. You are falling into the Terminological Trap that the video’s point was about.
@Mentaculus42
February 17, 2026 at 12:51 pm
Wow, someone actually calls out the pure green crowd that hate CLEAN with a passion to the point that they work at killing clean. Basically the green crowd call anything that doesn’t pass the fanatical PURE test as greenwashing and actively try to kill it (as they believe that the economic resources should only go to green and not clean). Unfortunately if the true goal is to be successful at minimizing climate change, all of the clean energy tools also need to be utilized, however distasteful to the green crowd.
The green crowd just doesn’t want to recognize the reality that the economic resources of the of the traditional energy industry must be ALSO be engaged and motivated to move in a USEFUL DIRECTION. But the green crowd mostly wants to KILL the traditional energy sector and not embrace any clean technologies. Climate improvement can only be accomplished at the fastest pace if ALL the players are pulling in the same direction.
@homewall744
February 17, 2026 at 1:13 pm
Comparing to the massive fraud and tyranny of the Covid nonsense and theft and fake science was not wise.
Free people in free markets always provide the best possible outcome humanly possible. Government force only gets in the way, and most “activists” operate on threats of force.
@pabloowen4850
February 17, 2026 at 3:31 pm
Philibuster
@saranbhatia8809
February 17, 2026 at 6:44 pm
Well spoken!
@KaziNahid-t1s
February 18, 2026 at 12:08 am
Anyone came for ielts listening purpose? 😂😂
@urbanstrencan
February 18, 2026 at 12:44 am
Great talk, investment need to change and get in to green tech and sustainable future
@abinashsahoo3239
February 19, 2026 at 1:49 am
Wow… Eye opening presentation and perspective 👌👌
@kevinwilliams3272
February 19, 2026 at 2:02 pm
Beautifully spoken, clear and concise. The dress is lovely, but maybe the same in green would have been more pertinent. But the “star of the show” was undoubtedly those absolutely gorgeous stiletto heels… ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
@atenas80525
February 21, 2026 at 2:40 pm
Banks got the message – “clean energy” is a lie, it can’t pay for itself, it has lied about it’s abilities and mathematically won’t work