Director of Sustainable Finance, Industry & Diplomacy @BezosEarthFund. Fmr Head Sustainable Investing @BlackRock, Obama White House, @RockyMtnInst. Views my own

Joined March 2017
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Biden will leave office with the strongest climate record of any president—making the largest ever investment in clean energy, regulating to reduce pollution from cars & power plants, bolstering clean energy supply chain resilience, & reasserting US global climate leadership. 🙏
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24 Jun 2024
The Bezos Earth Fund has committed to investing $10B into climate and nature programs by 2030. Remodeling the economy to make it more resilient to climate change is an overlooked field and a growing financial opportunity, said Bodnar. By Richard Martin: buff.ly/4eAftl1
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@bodnarclimate: emphasising the need and the role of the broader #PublicDevelopmentBanks ecosystem -beyond #MDBs- to achieve the transition. “We need to decentralise climate finance.” @AdamaMko @NPicchiottino @IDFC_Network @FinanceInCommon
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Paul Bodnar retweeted
23 Jun 2024
Two key areas for climate investment are resilience to warming temperatures and phasing down fossil fuels, says Paul Bodnar, Bezos Earth Fund director. Article by Richard Martin: buff.ly/4eAftl1
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Paul Bodnar retweeted
Sitting in tonight's the GST negotiations on fossil fuel phase out #COP28. Here is what countries are saying, using normal human language, a thread 👇
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Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with just 5 hrs of storage (24 GW / 120 GWh) Results: last week: 100% RE last 117 weeks: 99.0% RE (1/4)
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Paul Bodnar retweeted
We’re honored to receive @theiccfgroup's Good Steward Award at its annual gala! Proud to continue collaborating w/ partners at the community, national & international level to accelerate progress toward global conservation goals: bit.ly/45FSmzP.
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Paul Bodnar retweeted
13 Sep 2023
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Untangling "sustainable investing" for different audiences is never easy but the @HarvardHBS #ClimateRising team made it fun!
New #ClimateRising episode: @bodnarclimate of @BezosEarthFund discusses the ways investors can approach and influence corporate climate action– and why their role is important in an era of increasing climate pressure. Tune in now: link.chtbl.com/PTSt7-8H
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Great. We broke the color table for ocean heat. 😓
9 Jul 2023
Replying to @AndyHazelton
Broke my color table at 32°C. Max is 34.2°C from ECMWF HRES SST during forecast.
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Paul Bodnar retweeted
Thrilled to have hosted this brilliant discussion on breakthroughs needed in climate finance w/ @cathmckenna @bodnarclimate @rkyte365   @AvinashPersau15 @MoazzamTMalik - ahead of this week's Summit for a New Global Financial Pact. Recording here lnkd.in/gcxkkysn
Investments and financial flows remain off track from the levels needed to protect people, nature and biodiversity — and we’re running out of time to correct course. Join this #SystemsChangeLab webinar for a high-level discussion on transforming finance: bit.ly/3oPRYPF
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Paul Bodnar retweeted
"There will be a cost to society of adapting to climate change, no question. But that cost is not fixed." - @bodnarclimate How and when countries and companies take action to build #ClimateResilience will dictate the costs paid in the long run! #SystemsChangeLab
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Paul Bodnar retweeted
Tomorrow, #SystemsChangeLab @BezosEarthFund @WRIFinance host @avinashpersau15 @bodnarclimate @cathmckenna and @rkyte365 to discuss climate finance breakthroughs and steps the finance sector can take to prevent the worst impacts of climate change:
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Join us for an exciting discussion on Thu June 15th at 10:30am ET: @AvinashPersau15 @cathmckenna @rkyte365 and @bodnarclimate will discuss climate finance breakthroughs and steps the finance sector can take to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. Registration link below.
Investments and financial flows remain off track from the levels needed to protect people, nature and biodiversity — and we’re running out of time to correct course. Join this #SystemsChangeLab webinar for a high-level discussion on transforming finance: bit.ly/3oPRYPF
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Thrilled to join this all-star team to drive @BezosEarthFund work on sustainable finance, industry, and diplomacy in service of transformational solutions to protect the climate and nature.
Please join us in welcoming Paul Bodnar (@bodnarclimate) as the Bezos Earth Fund’s Director of Sustainable Finance, Industry, and Diplomacy. You can learn all about Paul’s background here → bit.ly/3o7NO5e. Welcome to the team, Paul!
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👇👇👇 now those are some kick-ass options
15 Feb 2023
Replying to @dfirgs
@JulesKortenhors, brilliant former CEO of @RockyMtnInst and a proven institutional transformation mastermind… @johnpodesta, obviously… @BarackObama!!!
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Paul Bodnar retweeted
NEW Today's IEA world energy investment report shows a record $1.4tn investment in clean energy in 2022 – and warns against turning to fossil fuels THREAD (with my pick of the best charts in the report) 1/n iea.org/reports/world-energy…
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Paul Bodnar retweeted
13 Apr 2022
1. A thread on climate hope: There is an extremely important and hope-filled climate paper out in Nature today. It finds that, if all the countries of the world fulfilled their climate commitments, the world would most likely limit climate change to just under 2 degrees C.
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Making sense of this moment in the net-zero transition isn’t easy for investors or companies. Here’s our take on a simplifying framework.
4 Feb 2022
The transition to #netzero emissions is already happening. What’s unclear is how it will evolve from here. How can companies and investors navigate this uncertainty? They need a map. Read more ➡️1blk.co/3sm7zo6
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