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Transitions/Human Rights

All about the wider issues that come out of the sustainability transitions including human rights

Sandy Jayaraj
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Insetting - defining and implementing at scale

Organisations can reduce their net greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) to zero ('net zero') by either making changes to their businesses that mean they produce no net emissions themselves or they can offset any net emissions they have to some degree by purchasing carbon offsets. Carbon offsets are programmes

Steven Bowen
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Why are we not cutting fossil fuel use?

A recent podcast from Rachel Donald (interviewing Ketan Joshi in an episode entitled Climate Delay and the Fossil Fuel industry) contained the following answer to the question - why is fossil fuel usage not falling? "The answer is complex, of course. One part, though, is that governments are the

Steven Bowen / Rob Karpati
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Artisanal Mining – No Longer Invisible (a round up)

Artisanal mining deserves more attention. In the last of his series, Rob Karpati summarises why it's important, and the practical steps being taken to solve the challenges.

Sandy Jayaraj
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Is climate risk becoming uninsurable?

Insurers are withdrawing from higher risk regions. And the situation is likely to get worse.

Sandy Jayaraj
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Risk of taking ESG data as gospel

ESG data is useful as part of the decision-making process. However, it is not THE process.

Steven Bowen
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The evolving role of a Chief Sustainability Officer

As a prospective CSO perhaps one of the first questions you should ask of your new employer is 'who will I report to'. The closer we are to the financial and strategy decision makers, the more influence we can have.

Steven Bowen
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Enel to fail its green bond emissions targets?

The Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute, one of our favourite sources on green bonds, recently (20th Oct) highlighted that Enel, the Italian Utility, looks likely to miss its Sustainability Performance Targets (SPT's) on 10 of its green bonds. The bonds have a total notional of €10.bn, so a

Sandy Jayaraj
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The beauty of simplification

Sustainable investing evangelist Nawar Alsaadi had a really interesting post on LinkedIn comparing the internet portals of the 1990s to the ESG and sustainability data companies of today. I certainly remember the days of Lycos, Yahoo!, Altavista etc and as Nawar points out they built themselves on being one stop

Steven Bowen
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Corporate lobbying needs closer attention.

... and the ecgi has done just that! Tom Gosling, Executive Director at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ecgi) recently interviewed Professor Michelle Lowry on her research paper ‘Firms’ Transition to Green: Innovation versus Lobbying’ We strongly encourage all Sustainability Professionals to watch the interview (the above video) and then read

Steven Bowen
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Environmental litigation funding - increasing pressure to prevent?

US hedge fund Gramercy (along with some of its clients) has provided $552.5 million in litigation funding (a secured loan) to Pogus Goodhead, a UK law firm involved in a number of class action lawsuits with environmental links.

Rufus Grantham / Sandy Jayaraj
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Place-based approaches - economic and social value

Engaging communities in the right way can improve economic resilience, lives and the environment.

Steven Bowen / Rob Karpati
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Why we all need to care about artisanal mining solutions

Artisanal mining is becoming an increasingly important issue as we examine the challenges faced by mined material supply chains. But, the importance of these solutions goes well beyond mining.

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