A transition dog is still a dog
The Transition Finance Market Review is an impressive piece of work. But I still don’t understand what a “transition finance” label will achieve.
Net zero, lawyers, and fiduciary duty
A recent paper from the Net Zero Lawyers Alliance does little to resolve the underlying dilemmas facing fiduciaries concerned about climate change
An electrifying journey
Electrification has cut my home energy bills by 2/3rds, but at a significant capital cost
A fiduciary argument for impact investing?
Could there be a good faith argument for fiduciaries to allocate a portion of their portfolio to climate impact investments? I argue that there could.
Why universal owners need modest objectives
By aiming for less asset owners can achieve more as universal owners.
The scores are in!
After a year living with my heat pump I’m pleasantly surprised by the economics of ownership.
What I’d do differently now
I’m very happy with my heat-pump but I blundered my way through the installation process. This is what I’d do differently now.
Decarbonisation on the home front
The last couple of years of my personal decarbonisation path have been dominated by heat pumps, offsetting, investments, and hypocrisy
Why global warming doesn’t matter so much to financial markets
Market pricing is just too short-term to take account of climate impacts to the extent we’d like, while carbon remains unpriced
Self-tax don’t offset
Offsetting has both technical and behavioural problems, meaning my preferred approach is self-taxation to fund nature and policy projects
What GFANZ should have said
A light-hearted, but serious take, on what GFANZ should’ve announced in Glasgow in November 2021, written with Harald Walkate
One cheer for GFANZ
The latest publications from GFANZ expose the limitations of the project. Is there an opportunity to reframe its objectives?
Trouble ahead for GFANZ
Asset managers need to figure out how to align membership of GFANZ with their fiduciary duty to clients, and fast.
This has to get easier
My experience installing a heat pump shows the massive gap between climate policy and what happens on the ground
Does divestment work?
A recent paper reported as showing a causal link between divestment and carbon emissions proves nothing of the kind. It’s a case study on why to be sceptical of headlines describing complex research.
Investing for good
There’s no clear consensus on how individual citizens should best use their investments to save the planet. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.
Reducing our footprint: a year in review
Cutting carbon through individual behaviour is possible, but can't be the whole answer…
It’s not (just) what you spend, it’s the way that you spend it
Until we have global carbon pricing we must take responsibility for our consumption choices
Food: the free lunch of climate change
Changes to diet and food sourcing are the closest thing to a free lunch in the battle against climate change…
Air miles, road miles
Cutting our transport footprint means cutting our transport miles - electric vehicles can only be part of the answer…