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Heavy LiftingBusiness & reporting

EFRAG Is Putting European Sustainability Standards at Risk

…Ambert on UnsplashProfessor Kerstin Lopatta became Chair of EFRAG’s Sustainability Reporting Board on May 1, 2026, for what was supposed to be a three-year term. Five months later, on September 30, 2026, she resigned. Corporate…

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Making Sustainability Financially Relevant

…Last week Professor Shiva Rajgopal and I published our book “Making Sustainability Financially Relevant: A Man/Machine Collaboration.” We think it’s a timely and much needed book. Over the past five years, “sustainability” and the…

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Why Climate Philanthropy Is a Dysfunctional System

…It is about closing loops and aligning incentives, which is what sustainability ought to mean, rather than the art of persuading people to behave better. Twenty-three years on, the field has far more vocabulary but still very little…

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Heavy LiftingClimate & society

A Conversation with Larry Selzer

…of The Conservation Fund. We were both together at a small private sustainability gathering a few months ago. Also attending was The Conservation Fund’s President and CEO

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Heavy LiftingPolitics & institutions

CSOs Need to Buck Up

And now is the perfect time to do it — Part 2 of “Making Sustainability Financially Relevant: A Man/Machine Collaboration” by Professor Shivaram Rajgopal and me is titled “The Operating Manual: Making It Work Inside Your Organization.”…

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The Proven Unknown

…in Their 10-Ks/20-Fs — Last week I published on Forbes.com “Does Sustainability Matter To The Oil And Gas Industry?” The basis of the piece was a simple idea. I had Dorothy ChatGPT analyze the 2024 10-Ks of Chevron, ConocoPhillips,…

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