The Red State Attorneys General Letter to the Big Four Firms
Dan Crowley, a lawyer at K&L Gates who focuses on financial services, has been a good friend of mine for over 20 years. And he’s a…
The Red State AG Attack on ESG Continues to Misfire
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. On August 24, sixteen Republican state attorneys general (AGs) sent a 38-page letter to the chief executives of Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC, copying the...
An Interview with Sue Lloyd, Vice-Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board
I have been a big supporter of reporting standards for sustainability performance for nearly 40 years. I was the Founding Chairman of the…
Putting Product-Level Carbon Accounting into Historical Perspective
I recently read The Carbon Accounting Landscape Review, published by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and prepared by the Secretariat of…
Why Climate Philanthropy Is a Dysfunctional System
I have been working on this since before it had a name. My first thesis, on eco-industrial development, was written in 2003, a year before the UN Global Compact’s…
Three Eras
Twice before, America’s response to environmental challenges has changed course as circumstances have changed. Both times, the country adjusted and moved…
Divided Government and System Behavior
Chapters 8 through 11 were constructed as stress tests. Each scenario isolated a different configuration of political control and institutional response in order to…