I helped launch the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) in 2010. Fifteen years later, integrated reporting remains mostly an aspiration, not something real. Most...

Technological innovation is often hailed as the cornerstone of climate mitigation. From direct air capture to carbon storage, industrial solutions are attracting unprecedented...

Effective carbon pricing has become essential for climate action. MIT's EN-ROADS climate simulator demonstrates that carbon pricing reaching $50-100 per ton of CO₂ by 2030 and...

Two years ago I wrote about the possibility of having a carbon tax in the U.S. I keep saying time would be better spent on getting a price on carbon than all the discussion about...

Prologue On September 10, 2025, the House Committee on Financial Services convened a full Committee hearing on a slate of proposed bills that would fundamentally reshape the...

In my piece “Eating Humble Pie in the Climate Change Debate” I have some discussion about the so-called “Ecoright.” These are conservative NGOs focused on climate change. I am...

Tropical rainforests represent one of our planet’s most critical natural assets in the fight against climate change, storing approximately 25% of all terrestrial carbon despite...

In my previous piece I identified four facts I believe must be addressed for any energy policy and its associated narrative to be politically viable for the vast majority of the...

In my previous piece I wrote about how climate change is not an existential crisis. In this piece I used data from an excellent paper “The Science vs. the Narrative vs. the...

On July 29, 2025, 26 members (from 20 red states and the purple state of Pennsylvania) of the State Financial Officers Foundation (SFOF) sent letters to the leaders of 25 large...

The issue of climate narratives is something very much on my mind these days. Two years ago I wrote about five climate change narratives (Scientific, Skeptical, Doomsday,...

According to a recent survey “Sustainability at the Crossroads” of 884 sustainability experts in 72 countries, 71% of NGOs think the sustainability agenda needs a radical reset....

This report presents a detailed comparative analysis of climate-related disclosure and strategic alignment across six global oil and gas majors: ExxonMobil, Chevron,...

I’m sure for many people the answer is a self-evident “No” —a question not even worth debating. For others, the question is also irrelevant because sustainability or them...

In a previous post, I argued that we need a new American narrative for talking about climate change. This is a necessary but not sufficient condition for creating a bipartisan...