When We Finance Resilience, We Finance Futures: Leanne Emery-Hunter at TEDxJohannesburg

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Leanne Emery-Hunter

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TEDxJohannesburg Countdown

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Climate & Environment

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When We Finance Resilience, We Finance Futures: Leanne Emery-Hunter at TEDxJohannesburg

At TEDxJohannesburg Countdown, Tshikululu CEO Leanne Emery-Hunter explores how South Africa can rethink the way it finances its response to climate change.

Drawing on real-world examples including Cape Town’s Day Zero and the Just Energy Transition, this talk challenges the idea that resilience is built through crisis response alone. Instead, it makes the case for climate-smart, inclusive finance that connects capital, policy, and human capability to unlock long-term resilience for communities, ecosystems, and the economy.

“Resilience isn’t about surviving the storm. It’s about learning to build in the rain.”

This talk is a call to move from finite capital to infinite resilience, and to invest in futures that are designed to last.

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We help companies achieve their social change goals by providing customised strategic social impact services, managing funds and advising on corporate social investment.

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