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The CSDDD: How the Phoenix Can Rise from the Ashes
The CSDDD: How the Phoenix
Can Rise from the Ashes
Articles 2024, News & Analysis
There was no shortage of disappointment and discourse from all sides during the recent negotiations on the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). Opinions...
Comment: The next steps will be crucial for the success of CSDDD
Comment: The next steps will be crucial
for the success of CSDDD
Articles 2024, News & Analysis
There was no shortage of disappointment and discourse from all sides during the recent negotiations on the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). Opinions...
Untangling Climate Risk, Financial Risk, And Climate Impact
Untangling Climate Risk, Financial Risk,
And Climate Impact
Articles 2024, News & Analysis
“Climate risk is financial risk” is an increasingly ubiquitous incantation. It is frequently invoked in discussions about shareholder proposals, the need for companies to adopt...
Centerline: How The Free Market-Right Is Working For A Return To Normalcy
Centerline: How The Free Market-Right Is
Working For A Return To Normalcy
Articles 2024, News & Analysis
On January 18, 2024 an organization called Centerline Liberties (Centerline) issued a press release titled “Center-Right Taxpayer Advocacy Leaders Unveil Free-market, Pro-growth...
Will the U.S. ESG backlash get board directors off the hook for climate change?
Will the U.S. ESG backlash get board directors
off the hook for climate change?
Articles 2024, News & Analysis
In October of 2021 The Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI) published “Fiduciary Duties and Climate Change in the United States” by Sarah Barker, Cynthia Williams, and...
The Ideology and Reality of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage
The Ideology and Reality of Carbon
Capture Utilization and Storage
Articles 2024, News & Analysis
One of the greatest technological advancements in the climate change space is, arguably, the fact that we now have the technology to outright remove CO2 from its point of...
The Best And The Rest: The Sorry State Of Sustainability Today
The Best And The Rest: The Sorry State
Of Sustainability Today
Articles 2024, News & Analysis
Last summer Professor Alison Taylor (who has just published an excellent book “Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right in a Turbulent World) and I published an article in...
Sustainable Value Creation
Sustainable
Value Creation
Articles 2024, News & Analysis
Closing the gap between stated commitments and operational realities New research conducted by sustainability experts Dr. Robert Eccles and Alison Taylor, in partnership with...
How Polarized Is America When It Comes To Climate Change?
How Polarized Is America When It
Comes To Climate Change?
Articles 2024, News & Analysis
A lot in some ways, not so much in others. While most Republicans do not see climate change as an urgent issue, they are supportive of a number of ways of addressing it. They...
Comment: The EU’s CSDDD usurps the role of US fiduciaries
Comment: The EU’s CSDDD Usurps
the Role of US Fiduciaries
Articles 2024, News & Analysis
The European Green Deal was launched in December 2019. Its stated purpose is to “transform the EU into a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy”. The foundations are:...
Is ExxonMobil’s Acquisition Of Pioneer Good News Or Bad News For Climate Change?
Is ExxonMobil’s Acquisition Of Pioneer Good News
Or Bad News For Climate Change?
Articles 2024, News & Analysis
On October 23, 2023 ExxonMobil announced the acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $64.5 billion. The acquisition would...
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