Excellent: “How Robust Is Your Climate Governance?” Especially this one: “The board probes management’s climate plans and targets.” hbr.org/2024/11/how-...

How Robust Is Your Climate Governance?

During the past few years, as evidence of climate change and its effects has mounted, many corporate boards have added climate governance to their agendas. But the maturity of boards’ climate-oversigh...

“[BPs CEO] has been adamant that he ‘is not really thinking about production,’ but rather about ‘cash flow and returns.’ If this is the case, why…[sanction] new, high cost, long lifespan assets?” These ‘assets’ are liabilities masquerading as assets carbontracker.org/bp-u-turn/

Backing Petroleum: bp’s transition U-turn is bad for the climate and investors - Carbon Tracker Initiative

Our new blog looks at why bp is making a mistake with its latest u-turn on the energy transition strategy.

“Venture capital deal activity is slowing down” ⁦‪“The VC market's cowardly chickens are coming home to roost~too many VCs have become so ‘founder-friendly’ as to become lousy fiduciaries.” www.axios.com/2024/10/11/v...

Venture capital deal activity is slowing down

The VC market's cowardly chickens are coming home to roost.

“carbon removal and direct air capture [are public goods] We’re producing a waste management service that no one currently has to pay for, and that makes commercializing this particularly difficult.” @jtemple.bsky.socialwww.technologyreview.com/2024/10/10/1...

Observers warn the US must do more to boost demand for carbon removal

The US is spending billions to build direct-air-capture plants. But some fear the projects won’t succeed unless the government buys more of what they’re selling.

“While the climate-driven transition is under way, other transitions will follow. Climate change is one of nine ‘planetary boundaries’ that economic activity cannot sustainably exceed…biodiversity loss, water use, change in land use, and pollution.” www.ft.com/content/1509...

The business case for the planet

Sustainability is a business issue, creating risks and opportunities across all sectors

“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible”~Francis of Assisi Quick carbon removal demand math ⁦‬⁩ nanransohoff.substack.com/p/quick-carb...

Quick carbon removal demand math

Carbon removal demand continues to be a much-discussed topic within the field.

Excellent‬⁩: “Investing in the Shadow of AGI: Merge the old and the new” www.linkedin.com/pulse/invest...

Investing in the Shadow of AGI: Merge the old and the new

VCs are famous for asking startups, “What is stopping Apple, Meta, and Alphabet from doing this?” The new question VCs are thinking about, if not asking explicitly, is “What is stopping general AI fro...

The Robert Frank exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art is incredibly moving: “The show is the heartbreaking record of his attempt to cope with that anti-epiphany. How does a genius get back to work after rejecting his own gifts?” www.ft.com/content/73ec...

Robert Frank at MoMA — a photographer in conflict with his craft

The struggle to overcome an anti-epiphany is laid bare in a heartbreaking New York show

Impact-weight all risk analysis. Then, drive impact-driven growth that delivers financial and planetary wins, each embedded in the other. If you can’t, step aside for those who can. Or, lose. You choose. “Nature loss is a strategic risk for companies” www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Comment: Nature loss is a strategic risk for companies. Here’s what to do about it

With six of nine planetary boundaries now breached, few deny that nature is in crisis. But many still need to wake up to the fact that nature is everyone’s business.

“…today’s dissonance between industrial and macroeconomic policy is new and intense. It forms an anti-paradigm that adds materially to the uncertainty haunting the world economy.” ⁦‪‬⁩ www.ft.com/content/225c...

The old US economic policy is dying and the new cannot be born

Industrial rivalry and tensions with China frame a confused debate about the pressures of globalisation