3 may 2024
I shared my views on universal owners and climate change for Net Zero Investor. You can read the article here: https://www.netzeroinvestor.net/news-and-views/why-universal-owners-need-modest-objectives
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
By aiming for less asset owners can achieve more as universal owners.