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Directors’ Fiduciary Duties and Climate Change: Emerging Risks
Directors’ Fiduciary Duties and Climate Change:
Emerging Risks
As exemplified by the attention paid by the business and investor communities to the COP26 event, the last few years have seen a significant change in the understanding of...
Investor support key to success for the International Sustainability Standards Board
Investor support key to success for the
International Sustainability Standards Board
On November 3 at COP26, the IFRS Foundation (the Foundation) formally announced the formation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). It also communicated...
Reflections On COP 26 From An Activist In Residence: An Interview With Charmian Love
Reflections On COP 26 From An Activist In Residence:
An Interview With Charmian Love
Charmian (Char) Love is Co-Founder of B Lab UK. She has an MBA from the Harvard Business School and is a very popular teacher in the MBA programme at the Said Business School at...
Bob Eccles and Jean Rogers on ISSB and the future of ESG reporting
Bob Eccles and Jean Rogers on ISSB
and the future of ESG reporting
Whatever your take was on COP26, a key takeaway at the intersection of capital markets and climate was the formation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)....
Curb your enthusiasm for a carbon tax
Curb your enthusiasm
for a carbon tax
Robert Eccles, Xingchao Gao and Shiva Rajgopal explore what a carbon tax could mean for National Oil Companies and future market dynamics Source link for this articleRobert G....
Are Auditors Auditing For The Financial Implications Of Climate Change?
Are Auditors Auditing For
The Financial Implications Of Climate Change?
COP 26 will begin in three days. There are many topics that will be covered in this event. One that probably won’t receive enough coverage although it deserves serious attention...
The Value Creation of Active Engagement
The Value Creation
of Active Engagement
Recognising the importance of sustainable investing, the UK and China have been working closely to encourage the growth of green and sustainable finance across financial services...
An aspiration for COP 26: accelerating the transition to net-zero
An aspiration for COP 26:
Accelerating the transition to net-zero
The global push for net-zero emissions is a massive undertaking, but the existential threat of climate change means that companies must act now. With the COP 26 global climate...
General Citizens’ Assemblies: A Bold Idea That Needs Our Support!
General Citizens' Assemblies:
A Bold Idea That Needs Our Support!
COP26 officially kicks off on October 31. The general tone leading up to this is one of hope, mixed with a large dose of understandable skepticism. In a few weeks, we’ll know the...
Yes, Even U.S. Board Directors (And Their Attorneys) Need To Worry About Climate Change
Yes, Even U.S. Board Directors (And Their Attorneys)
Need To Worry About Climate Change
The Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI) has just published “Fiduciary Duties and Climate Change in the United States” by Sarah Barker, Cynthia Williams, and Alex...
Corporate Restructuring Is Needed To Accelerate Europe’s Energy Transition
Corporate Restructuring Is Needed
To Accelerate Europe’s Energy Transition
It is impossible to create a net-zero world by 2050 without a tremendous growth in the capacity of renewable energy. According to a recent research report by Barclays, in Europe...
Carbon Might Be Your Company’s Biggest Financial Liability
Carbon Might Be Your Company’s
Biggest Financial Liability
Through some combination of government intervention and the development of carbon trading markets, it seems inevitable that a price will eventually be put on carbon around the...
A Critique Of Tariq Fancy’s Critique Of ESG Investing: An Interview With Clara Miller
A Critique Of Tariq Fancy’s Critique Of ESG Investing:
An Interview With Clara Miller
In a functioning democracy, it is important to have an open debate between people with very different views. This is especially true for the field of sustainable investing since...
Three Principles For ESG Investing From The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority
Three Principles For ESG Investing From The U.K.
Financial Conduct Authority
In my last post I wrote about seven principles for ESG investing. I developed these principles in collaboration with Desiree Fixler. Ms. Fixler was the group sustainability...
Seven Principles For ESG Investing: A Conversation With Desiree Fixler
Three Principles For ESG Investing From The U.K.
Financial Conduct Authority
I would be surprised to learn of anyone interested in sustainable investing who isn’t aware of DWS’s dramatic dismissal of Desiree Fixler. She was the group sustainability...
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