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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...
What I’ve Learned From Conservatives Who Are Addressing The Challenge Of Climate Change
What I’ve Learned From Conservatives Who Are Addressing
The Challenge Of Climate Change
Articles 2023, News & Analysis
I live in the charming and historical New England town of Concord, MA., home of Walden Pond, made famous by Henry David Thoreau. A few weeks ago I drove by Walden Pond on my way...
The International Sustainability Standards Board Can Help PROVE IT
The International Sustainability Standards
Board Can Help PROVE IT
Articles 2023, News & Analysis
On June 7, 2023 Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) and Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) introduced bill S. 1863 “To require the Secretary of Energy to conduct a study and submit a report on...
Climate Change In Wyoming: The Sanity Of Governor Mark Gordon And The Inanity Of The Wyoming Freedom Caucus
Climate Change In Wyoming: The Sanity Of Governor Mark Gordon
And The Inanity Of The Wyoming Freedom Caucus
Articles 2023, News & Analysis
HERE IN WYOMING THE CLIMATE IS CHANGING, AND SO, TOO, ARE THE ENERGY POLICIES, MARKETS, AND ECONOMIC PRIORITIES AROUND US. The only question that remains is this: What is Wyoming...
Let Corporate Purpose Guide You Through ESG Turbulence
Let Corporate Purpose Guide You
Through ESG Turbulence
Articles 2023, News & Analysis
Amidst the evolving landscape of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) practices in both the U.S. and Europe, companies are caught in a challenging dilemma. U.S. firms,...
Is The American Petroleum Institute An ESG Cartel?
Is The American Petroleum Institute
An ESG Cartel?
Articles 2023, News & Analysis
I realize it seems like a bit of a stretch to pose this question. But trust me. I have a good reason for doing so. It’s important to know the answer to this question. If it is,...
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