What a special pleasure to see the ALL WOMEN jacket for my forthcoming book Cornell University Press Many thanks to the amazing Kate McNamara Juliet Johnson @JacquelineMBest Daniela Gabor for their role modeling and overly generous endorsements

I'm puzzled. Based on what I've seen in the last 6 years, this "green accounting saga" seems much like a new distraction to promote information over strict regulations. But this also reveals power conflicts and diversity of national types of capitalism. Are the two compatible?

"Canada sustainability standard-setters embrace strong international reporting rules" Strong, in comparison to whom? It's all a matter of perspective (and of neighbour) shorturl.at/efox3

👍 1st-time SNB publishes GHG emissions of its equities, government & corporate bonds held in foreign exchange reserves 😬12 mio tons of CO2 eq (= 1/3 of Switzerland's GHG emissions) 😐Not a problem: cannot pursue "a plan to reduce the GHG emissions related to its investments"

This was a really fun chapter to think about and write. Coming soon in the forthcoming book "Sustainable Capitalism", edited by Inara Scott, available here: sustainablecapitalismbook.com/chapters

I am pleased to publish this short blog post with my new research institution. I argue for the need to politicize sustainability reporting standards, at the risk of ignoring alternative policy pathways for finance and environmental impacts beyond those relevant to investors.

After nearly four years of working on it, I've finally got this article out in Soc_Stud_Sci today: a little portrait of CryoArks in particular and an account of the difficulties of biobanking more generally (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

I'm looking forward to taking part in this great workshop tomorrow (unfortunately virtually for me, and in the middle of the night from Ottawa) and presenting the initial findings of my research on Nature-related financial risks!

If you're at #EASST4S2024 in Amsterdam, come to the book launch of At the End of Property on Wednesday, 7 July! Kean Birch, Koen Beumer and Klaus Hoeyer will be there to discuss the book and the role of property in STS, anthropology & political economy Room HG 13A33, 12:15 pm

I wrote a review of 'The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet' by Christophers for Finance and Society I focus on why certain economic approaches to green transitions continue to dominate policy discussions despite their consistent shortcomings shorturl.at/GsXYR

Such an article was missing, great to see it published!

Should we be worried about the price or the profit? Sylvian Maechler reviews Brett Christopher's recent book. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

But that the traditional machinery of intergovernmental negotiations is hardly keeping up while the financial, business and high tech sectors race ahead. The result? Muddling through. My take on the outcomes here: theconversation.com/cop16-the-worl…

With Biodiversity COP 16 far behind and Climate COP 29 now underway, here’s a good summary of the former: shorturl.at/I6iPu. Loved this reported quote: “In 2010, they killed the idea of biodiversity credits. Nobody thought they would come back like a zombie.”

🧵 2/10 "Uncertainty in times of ecological crisis: a Knightian tale of how to face future states of the world" by Sylvain Maechler and Jean-Christophe Graz

Excited to share my latest research on the emergence of nature-related risks in finance and their impact on global biodiversity governance at the University of Ottawa in two weeks!

I wrote a short summary of my presentation last week on nature-related risk and biodiversity finance at @uOttawaCIPS Have a look! cips-cepi.ca/2025/02/18/the…

I’m thrilled to see our new article, “Climate Change Governance by Central Banks in an Era of Interlocking Crises,” published—co-authored with a fantastic group of scholars!

📚✨ New paper alert: Derisking as Worldmaking → Why finance is a worldmaking force → Why derisking undermines itself → Why we need a Smart Green State instead Full article: "Derisking as Worldmaking: Climate Finance and the Politics of Uncertainty" (in RIPE)

🚨New Publication 🚨 in New Political Economy with the one and only Mathias Larsen. We propose the term 'Green Financial Planning' to demonstrate that green finance is much more than a few loans/bonds with green names - tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…