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How to Build a Sustainable Future

Chris Hall

Since then, heatwaves across the northern hemisphere, gathering energy and food security crises, and climate policy actions across the globe, notably in the US , have raised new questions about the path to a net zero economy – alongside concerns about the impact of inflation, disruption and transition on existing economic and social inequities.

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Roundtable: In Pursuit of Value, not Values

Chris Hall

The likely challenges to SEC’s climate risk disclosure rule reflects a wider anti-ESG backlash, partly fuelled by the scepticism that accompanies greenwashing scandals, but also driven by the culture wars between conservatives and liberals that have characterised US politics in recent years. Curbing greenwashing. Anti-ESG backlash.

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ESG’s Backlash Demands Better Data

Chris Hall

Richard Hardyment, Head of Engagement at the Institute of Business Ethics, calls for a revolution in the mechanics of measurement to realise sustainable finance’s potential. There are accusations of greenwashing from one side, ‘wokeism’ from another, and a lingering question on everyone’s lips: is it making a difference?