Publications

• Climate financing is finally here, but will there be equity?

• EU taxpayers’ money still spends the night in some of the world’s most climate-unfriendly banks

Articles d’éditeurs

• Investors should look to the Global South to scale climate solutions (Les investisseurs devraient se tourner vers les pays du Sud pour mettre à l’échelle les solutions climatiques)
• 3 green economy insights from China’s quintessential convening
• The compelling case for being ‘climate positive by design’
• Investing in China’s sustainable finance boom
• This African startup is reducing the footprint of running shoes
• The ESG benefits of cooperatives
• Why the US needs to get on track with high-speed rail
• When it comes to climate investment funds, diverse management is imperative
  • Reprinted in Climate & Capital here
• The case for buying climate tech from BIPOC and women-owned suppliers
• B Lab co-CEO Anthea Kelsick: « Innovate against your model’ to address systemic racism
• We need a federal climate policy, but please ditch the name ‘Green New Deal’

Les innovateurs

• Kuli Kuli: A superstar of superfoods
• How SaLisa Berrien leads the ‘Lyft of energy’
• From Atlanta to Denver, Emrgy offers plug-and-play hope for hydropower
• Harvesting the beauty and utility of ‘ugly’ produce
• Inside Kathy Hannun’s quest to provide accessible household geothermal
• Feeling blue? How this entrepreneur revitalized a natural dye industry
• Aclima’s particulate vision maps air pollution
• How this economist-entrepreneur is cultivating a new market for organic products
• How this app is providing community mobility solutions and personal parenting options
• It’s a ball to keep microfibers out of the ocean
• Kiverdi CEO Lisa Dyson seeks to extract value from CO2
• 10Power aims to tap energy potential in this ‘stand-out’ island nation

Features/Quotes

• These are the strategies behind China’s ambitious clean energy transition

Climate and Clean Energy Finance

 

• L’époque de la réglementation du financement climatique (en anglais)
• L’époque de la réglementation du financement climatique (en chinois)

 

• Feature (Quote): Russia exclusions raise tough questions for passive investing

 

• Environmental, Social, Corporate Governance Investing: A Foundation’s Approach to Climate Change

• European Commission’s Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (FISMA)
  
• Response to the Public Consultation: ESG Ratings and Sustainability Risks in Credit Ratings

• United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: 21st Century Economy: Protecting the Financial System from Risks Associated with Climate Change
• Written Testimony: Decarbonize the Economy to Address Systemic Climate-Related Financial Risks

 

• United States Department of Labor Possible Agency Actions to Protect Life Savings and Pensions from Threats of
  Climate – Related Financial Risk
  
• Comment Letter to Employee Benefits Security Administration

• United States Securities and Exchange Commission
  
• Comments on S7-10-22 – The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors

• ISSB Comment Letter: Exposure Draft s IFRS S1 General Requirements and IFRS S2: Climate–related Disclosures

• CDP Feature: Why environmental progress must be explicitly anti-racist: a conversation with Marilyn Waite

• Euractiv OpEd: How to attract private finance for climate projects in developing countries
• Euractiv OpEd: Why natural gas is neither just nor transitional

• Forbes Feature: Meet The Woman Fighting Climate Injustice Through Changing Passive Investment
• Software Alone Won’t Fix Crumbling Infrastructure

• Financial Times OpEd: Carbon accounting should be a basic requirement for banks
• Financial Times Feature: How passive investment dulls the green wave

• Sifted’s Climate Tech newsletter: Brussels needs to respond to the US climate bill. Here are 4 things EU policymakers should to do

• The Wild West of regulating ESG investments
• Glaring omission in climate policy: Community financial institutions

• Hewlett Foundation:
  • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: Letter on Climate Change Disclosures
  • Aligning Passive Investment with Paris Goals
  • Climate Finance Strategy 2018-2023
  • Building a better banking system (with infographic)
  • A year in review and what’s ahead for our climate finance strategy
  • Q&A with Marilyn Waite: Financing climate and clean energy solutions

• Passive investing presents a challenge for decarbonisation. Here are six projects we’re backing to help change things

• As a member of the California Climate-Related Risk Disclosure Advisory Group: Developing Climate Risk Disclosure Practices for the State of California

• Arcadia Blog: Q&A with Marilyn Waite, clean energy finance expert

• Impakter: How Decarbonizing Shipping Just Got a Push – From Banks

• Reuters: Building a better banking system

• ImpactAlpha Feature: Hewlett Foundation aims to activate retail banks for climate action

• Feature (Quote): The thorny truth about socially responsible investing

Medium

• Despairing about the Paris Accord? Here are ten specific ideas to cut carbon emissions
• To yield better clean energy investments, let’s start asking the right questions
• Why Energy Efficiency Matters
• Building an Energy Startup Hub
• Three Types of Energy Efficiency Ventures that Entrepreneurs Can Launch in 2016

Utility Dive

• Why U.S. utilities should invest in innovation

Environmental and social aspects of textiles and clothing supply chain – Roadmap to sustainable textiles and clothing

• SURF Framework Applied to Industry

Two Cities Review

• The New Rule of Real Estate

Journal of Management and Sustainability

• SURF Framework for a Sustainable Economy

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy

• Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

Sustainable Water Resources in the Built Environment

Journal of Textile and Apparel, Technology and Management

• Sustainable Textiles: The Role of Bamboo and a Comparison of Bamboo Textile Properties – Part I and Part II