There is a damning indictment of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation this morning in the FT. Discussing the need to address climate change reporting, George
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Pension and ISA funding of the Green New Deal has to be amongst the Chancellor’s budget proposals
I have already suggested that the new Chancellor should abandon any pretence that there should be a fiscal rule when presenting UK’s budget on March
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Why won’t the government disclose the cost of climate change
The New Scientist has reported: UK government refuses request to explain cost of hitting net zero Adam Vaughan, New Scientist The UK government has refused
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Why financial accounting for Scope 3 emissions is essential
I have written quite often about my ideas on sustainable cost accounting now. A fair number of comments have come in on it. Many, admittedly,
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BP is responsible for the oil it sells. No one else is. And on that basis it is clear it has no intention of being a net-zero carbon company
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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Johnson’s bridge is exactly what we do not need
Ben Wray from Scottish think tank Common Weal has the best summary on Johnson’s infrastructure plans that I have read today. As he puts it:
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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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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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