Multani: Climate transition is fundamentally a capital stock turnover challenge
Saloni Multani · Catalyst: Will the bear market hurt clean energy? · Jun 22, 2022 · at 6:30
Climate investor Saloni Multani discusses the macroeconomic dynamics of clean energy infrastructure and why low-cost capital is essential for replacing legacy assets.
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“Climate is at its core a capital stock turnover problem where we need to deploy Ultimately, pretty low-cost capital. The corpus of it needs to be in order to turn over our brown infrastructure and make it green.”
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