The Texas Power Paradox

by dennis | Sep 20, 2025 | News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The conventional narrative about American climate action paints a simple picture: blue states lead on renewables while red states are all about oil and gas....

Brazil’s Bold Climate Finance Plan Could End Tropical Deforestation

by dennis | Sep 20, 2025 | Articles 2025, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Tropical rainforests represent one of our planet’s most critical natural assets in the fight against climate change, storing approximately 25% of all...

Proposing Four Basic Elements Of An Energy Policy For America

by dennis | Sep 8, 2025 | Articles 2025, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. 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...

Putting Climate Change Into Ideological And Economic Perspective

by dennis | Sep 4, 2025 | Articles 2025, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. 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...

Here We Go Again: Red States Continue to Focus on ESG

by dennis | Sep 4, 2025 | Articles 2025, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. 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...

Eating Humble Pie in the Climate Change Debate

by dennis | Aug 25, 2025 | News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Earlier this week, I published an article on Forbes.com titled “Here’s Why Climate Change Is Actually Not an Existential Risk.” (The original title...

Here’s Why Climate Change Is Actually Not An Existential Crisis

by dennis | Aug 21, 2025 | Articles 2025, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. 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,...