Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. 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...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI) has just published “Fiduciary Duties and Climate Change in the United States” by Sarah Barker, Cynthia...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. 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...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Through some combination of government intervention and the development of carbon trading markets, it seems inevitable that a price will eventually be put...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. 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...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. 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...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. 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...
