Awesome! #GoBows!

Same - congrats all the way from England!

Many argue that divesting from Big Oil is essential to combat #ClimateChange but one of my #SustainableFinance students has taken a contrarian approach and bought shares in O&G companies. Here’s why: follow-this.org #Sustainability Follow This

People should understand that #ESG investing is mostly about financial returns, rather than saving the world. #Sustainability

IIRC, this started after the Fukushima disaster. Offices and homes were asked to reduce A/C and other electricity use, neon signs were turned off, workers started coming to work in Aloha shirts. In the end, they exceeded the energy reduction target. reuters.com/article/uk-env…

We cannot afford slow movers, fake movers, or any form of greenwashing, in our race against the climate crisis. The transition to net-zero must be swift, credible, just and inclusive.

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Swiss Re has 14k employees; if any of them want to fly, they will need to have a good reason. Internal carbon price means employees booking flight from London to NYC will have about $200 charged to biz unit’s cost centre if they fly economy or $600 for biz ft.com/content/8190b7…

Just published: An excellent layman’s guide to The Science of #ClimateChange. Comprehensive and comprehendible for non-technical audiences. frc.org.uk/getattachment/… #Sustainability @FRCnews

Helpful analysis on today’s US Supreme Court decision constraining the EPA’s authority to restrict GHG emissions. #ClimateChange

Hopeful TED Talks message: Yuval Noah Harari estimates that investments of “only” ~2% of global GDP can help avert the worst impacts of #ClimateChange. Of course, these investments must be properly targeted. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SiCvGQ… #Sustainability

I learned a lot from this S&P Global Ratings podcast on the SEC’s proposed #ESG fund rules, including 1) the differences among ESG integration, focus and impact funds and 2) why decarbonising portfolios could actually harm our planet. #sustainablefinance podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/esg…

Confused about #sustainable #finance taxonomies and differences among them? Here's a fabulous primer from ASFI. static1.squarespace.com/static/6182172… #SusFin #taxonomy

The crux of the UK’s sad decline: “In the past 30 years, the British economy chose finance over industry, Britain’s government chose austerity over investment, and British voters chose a closed and poorer economy over an open and richer one.”

Every spending cut, every tax rise is a choice. We could rejoin the EU and none of it would be needed. Every economist, except a tiny fringe, agrees that leaving was a huge hit to the economy.

Quite a conundrum: If boards and institutional investors are both expected to be "stewards," who is responsible for what? Interesting TulchanCommunications report on deteriorating board-shareholder relations at UK companies. tulchangroup.com/media/Tulchan-… #CorpGov #stewardship

I left the investment world a decade ago so surprised to see boards and investors still struggling over many of the same issues: Box-ticking, poor understanding of strategy by investors, clashes between fund managers and stewardship folks, etc. tulchangroup.com/media/Tulchan-… #CorpGov

My fellow Americans, it’s okay to talk about #climatechange with each other. Here’s why. scientificamerican.com/article/climat… #Sustainability