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…in January 2029 with a mandate interpretation tied directly to the climate shock’s economic visibility. Campaign messaging emphasized competence in managing physical risk, regulatory clarity for capital markets, and coordination between…
…Part IV examines how the anti-ESG ecosystem processes a visible climate shock under four distinct political configurations. These chapters do not ask whether politics “matters.” They ask how political authority reallocates pressure…
…unsettled ground. In the autumn of 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Corporation Finance announced that for the current proxy season it would stop issuing substantive views on whether a company may exclude…
…produced the book “The Anti -ESG Ecosystem: Implications for U.S. Climate Policy” using a structured Hybrid Intelligent Team (HIT)—a coordinated ensemble of five AI systems, each assigned a distinct functional role. The pr oject…
…I met Claude Letourneau a few weeks ago at a private gathering of climate and energy CEOs and leaders organized by one of the world’s largest financial institutions. While I’m no expert on carbon capture and storage (although I have…
…financial effects (AFE) of physical and transition risk from climate change in a 1.5°C scenario. The standards they have developed companies to require both. The AFE story is a rather shocking one and I’ll be writing more about…
…identifiable effects on transmission, timing, and observability. It changes how influence travels, which edges become sensitive, and where pressure accumulates or dissipates. In that sense, it functions less as a blockage than as a…
…his life thinking about exactly that.” Something in her expression changed. Only slightly. But people who knew Nika Mirov noticed. She was excited. “I have had the privilege of meeting presidents, prime ministers, scientists,…
…for his book “The Anti- ESG Ecosystem: Implications for U.S. Climate Policy. ” (Appendix A is an outline wit h brief descriptions.) He had written the book in January with the help of a Hybrid Intelligent Team (HIT) comprised of…
…recently taken encouraging steps, such as withdrawing from global climate coalitions and scaling back ESG rhetoric and proxy votes,” it goes on to list five steps firms must take in order to continue doing business with these states.…
…my professional work (e.g., sustainability, sustainable finance, climate change, and finding bipartisan solutions to systemic problems with a focus on the capital markets), we also took a one week break from this and wrote a book…
…an example of a technology I think is foundational for dealing with climate change. It is also a highly politicized one as I’ve written about with Philip Rossetti of the R Street Institute. In short, conservatives who are focused on…
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