I spoke twice at the AccountingWEB live exhibition yesterday, albeit by dialling in unlike my co-presenters. The second of these sessions was on climate accounting.
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Are our water companies environmentally insolvent?
Ofwat, which is the official water regulator in England and Wales, issued a report on the financial resilience of the water companies that they regulate
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Climate quantitative easing is key to tackling climate change
Colin Hines and I are in The Guardian this morning: Our letter says: Rebecca Solnit’s inspiring long read (Ten ways to confront the climate crisis
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When economic irrationality might literally become the biggest threat to human life we all need to worry.
I have always felt conflicted by the HS2 rail plan. An excessively complex railway designed for speed and as a consequence accessible for pricing reasons
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Without a comprehensive accounting standard for climate change private equity could have a field day exploiting dirty assets for short term gain
Huw van Steenis, who is a senior adviser to the chief executive of UBS and a former adviser to ex-Bank of England governor Mark Carney,
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COP 26 failed. We need not. But w have to get on with beating the forces that want to kill life in earth. Time is not our side.
I admit that I have been struggling to find appropriate words to write since it became apparent that COP26 really would not deliver anything like
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What will make the neoclassical economist realise that there is something more important than market equilibria, and that is life itself?
Chris Giles said this in the FT this morning: Here is a simple question. Has the UK economy already recovered all of the ground lost
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The great success of the Green New Deal is in getting people to believe in it
Aditya Chakrabortty had this to say about an article he wrote for the Guardian yesterday: The column that will probably lose me the most friends:
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Greenwash will not do: proper accounting for the impact of the climate crisis is what we need now
This is an FT headline this morning: The article makes three things clear. The first is that business feels good about itself. The second is
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