The anti-ESG backlash may have an unexpected benefit for European index fund managers

The Transition Finance Market Review is an impressive piece of work. But I still don’t understand what a “transition finance” label will achieve.

A recent paper from the Net Zero Lawyers Alliance does little to resolve the underlying dilemmas facing fiduciaries concerned about climate change

Electrification has cut my home energy bills by 2/3rds, but at a significant capital cost

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.

By aiming for less asset owners can achieve more as universal owners.

After a year living with my heat pump I’m pleasantly surprised by the economics of ownership.

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.

The last couple of years of my personal decarbonisation path have been dominated by heat pumps, offsetting, investments, and hypocrisy

Market pricing is just too short-term to take account of climate impacts to the extent we’d like, while carbon remains unpriced

Offsetting has both technical and behavioural problems, meaning my preferred approach is self-taxation to fund nature and policy projects

A light-hearted, but serious take, on what GFANZ should’ve announced in Glasgow in November 2021, written with Harald Walkate

The latest publications from GFANZ expose the limitations of the project. Is there an opportunity to reframe its objectives?

Asset managers need to figure out how to align membership of GFANZ with their fiduciary duty to clients, and fast.

My experience installing a heat pump shows the massive gap between climate policy and what happens on the ground

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.

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.

Cutting carbon through individual behaviour is possible, but can't be the whole answer…

Until we have global carbon pricing we must take responsibility for our consumption choices

Changes to diet and food sourcing are the closest thing to a free lunch in the battle against climate change…