There has been a mass of media reporting this morning of BP’s supposed plan to become net carbon zero. The Guardian is amongst many to
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Pensions funds cannot deliver proper climate change reports without the data that sustainable cost accounting will supply
The FT has reported that: Pension schemes in the UK are to be forced to explain how millions of their members’ retirement pots will be
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Finding meaning in accounting
I admit I try not to work on Saturdays. I like my work. I also enjoy leisure time. But today I am going to speak
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Climate change needs to be on the balance sheet
The FT has an article in it this morning from Natasha Landell-Mills, who is head of stewardship at Sarasin & Partners. In it she argues that:
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You can’t be carbon neutral by ignoring the emissions from the products you sell
As a result of the work I have been doing on sustainable cost accounting I have become pretty familiar with this thing:The greenhouse gas protocol
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Sainsbury’s plan for net zero-carbon ignores all the emissions that they enable – and that’s not good enough
As the Guardian has reported this morning: Sainsbury’s has pledged to spend £1bn to become a carbon-neutral business by 2040, 10 years ahead of the
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The left needs to stop tilting at windmills and embrace them instead
Two articles have struck me this morning. One is in the Guardian, by regular commentator John Harris. The headline in this article says most of
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Green swan risks should change the way we see finance, forever
The Bank of International Settlements and Banque de France published an eBook for Davos this week: The BIS says of the book that: Climate change
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Nine of the top ten risks according to a major insurance company are due to climate change
Marco Fante has drawn my attention to a new report, published for Davos and promoted on the FT website by the Zurich Insurance Group. He linked it
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