As #COP26 opens, a refresher on making net zero count by facing up to its shortcomings #ESG #ClimateAction preventablesurprises.com/climate-disrup…

Preventable Surprises is pleased to support the #GlasgowEmergencyPact at #COP26 and we invite others to do the same. We believe it spells out necessary conditions of success for #climateaction: resource transfers, and pace. Read on and add your voice: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Our Op-Ed on the Border and Surveillance Industry. There are no social or economic benefits when migrants suffer #humanrights abuses. So why do they keep happening? This is a preventable surprise, and investors have a role to play. #ESG responsible-investor.com/articles/borde…

In 2016 the #Missing60 campaign highlighted that the big U.S. mega managers were the major enablers of dysfunctional corporate & market behaviour when it came to #ClimateCrisis. huffpost.com/entry/the-miss… 5 yrs later, there's some progress on the E but little progress on the S #ESG

Our latest takeover Breaking the Fever #podcast chat with @the_eco_thought is out! Listen and learn to panic cheerfully in the face of existential threat at spreaker.com/user/human-ris…

#Omicrom is yet another #PreventableSurprise. Risk reduction should have been the priority. Instead #corporatecapture by #BigPharma - and its intellectual allies - was tolerated. Vaccine manufacturing where it is needed eg Africa has been blocked. Michael Mina david_mcnair

Investors begin “highlighting the dissonance between companies’ stated values and their political donations”. ⁦The Good Lobby⁩ ⁦HEC Paris Business School⁩ ⁦Elizabeth Doty⁩ ⁦Erb Institute⁩ ⁦PreventableSurprises⁩ ⁦The Good Lobby Italia⁩ ⁦Jeremy Ghez⁩ economist.com/leaders/2022/0…

Our Breaking the Fever podcast is back! Jerome Tagger and I chat with Jonathan Haidt on structural stupidity, social media and power. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/4yMKIh…

“So long as there are investments, we will need to give thought to responsibility, from investors, the companies they invest in & the regulatory model that sets the rule for how markets work,” write Michael Musuraca and Jerome Tagger of PreventableSurprises. impactalpha.com/reports-of-the…

Letter signed by: Julia Steinberger @rpancost Prof Michael E. Mann Peter Kalmus Felix Creutzig Yamina SAHEB @yamsaheb.bsky.social Celine Guivarch @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social Prof Richard Betts Stefano Battiston @PhThalmannEPFL Prof Sonia I. Seneviratne Marc Chesney Cornelia Krug Martin Schlaepfer Rupa Mukerji and further colleagues. cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/vi…

We will be joining Alberto Alemanno for this Twitter space event!

Don't miss out on this PreventableSurprises master class with our Founder and Chairman Steve Lydenberg: "Gordon Gekko Redux: How ethics can help us rethink responsible finance" 9/14 at 11am ET ow.ly/NhVa50Krvf4

Two days to go! Master class with Steve Lydenberg "Gordon Gekko Redux: How ethics can help us rethink responsible finance" 9/14 at 11am ET The Investment Integration Project (TIIP) PreventableSurprises Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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#EffectiveAltruism advocates who say #EA is fine, #SBF was just another high level fraudster are in denial. This insightful oped explains how/why EA led to this fraud & corporate implosion. Interesting that it comes from a former religious correspondent! #PreventableSurprises

Not sure who is still out there, but I’ve been working on this for six months and, well, here it is: newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

the most powerful climate report of the decade was published on monday, after 195 governments fought over the words in its summary for policymakers, and the only media allowed in the room just published its account of who lobbied for what 1/

.Melanie Nakagawa & Microsoft - Thank you for acknowledging the importance of policy in addressing the climate crisis at the speed and scale required. However, you are still obstructing climate progress through your memberships in big trade associations… (🧵1/5)

Investing through a refugee lens is in very early stages, but field-building and investor stewardship is happening in pockets writes @vibeka. With insights from Zevin Asset Management, Refugee insights, Refugee Investment Network, BCGEU & PreventableSurprises esginvestor.net/climate-crisis…