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Mastercard CSO: ‘Making more sustainable choices is a megatrend’

Mastercard CSO: ‘Making more sustainable choices is a megatrend’

Update: 2025-06-02
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Financial services is high on the list of the most fascinating and challenging sectors for sustainability. Ellen Jackowski, Chief Sustainability Officer at Mastercard, is one of the sector's leaders. In just a few years at the financial services giant, she's helped pioneer approaches to using payment systems to inspire, inform and enable change at a mass scale.

Jackowski talks about her company's role in effecting systemic change and shares several examples of how the company innovates solutions for its customers and banking partners.

Also in this episode, Soli and Joel discuss the state of greenwashing and greenhushing, including how much of it is a distraction from more ambitious sustainability work that companies need to do.

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Mastercard CSO: ‘Making more sustainable choices is a megatrend’

Mastercard CSO: ‘Making more sustainable choices is a megatrend’

Joel Makower and Solitaire Townsend