Emissions accounting is prohibitively complicated and expensive. The solution is to embed emissions data directly into financial accounting systems — a data science approach that makes it easier, faster, cheaper, and more accurate.
The feud between the GHG Protocol and the E-Ledger Institute is a false choice, rooted in inattentional blindness rather than material differences. A single, interoperable emissions accounting system can serve the GHG Protocol, E-Ledgers, CBAM, and input-output analysis at once — without distorting the underlying data.
Aligning private capital with policy priorities requires understanding how institutional investors, impact investors, and DFIs each pursue supra-financial goals differently — and why disclosure rules alone can't align their mandates.
Carbon accounting is evolving rapidly — becoming easier, faster, cheaper, and more accurate. A new playbook is emerging, led by startup innovators, academic pioneers, central bank statisticians, and a voluntary collective.
Impact investment is blossoming. What started as a fad for idealists is gradually becoming a mainstream concept often discussed by fund management hotshots and company executives. The concept itself is certainly appealin…
I don’t mean the type of adulterous scooter socialism enjoyed by French President Francois Hollande – I mean an agile and nimble State that is deftly able to do more with less. Kinky like an inflection point in a trend l…
Capitalism – in its current form – has let us down. We have seen this truism manifest itself globally, from the disruptive protests of the “Occupy” movements to mainstream debates such as Capitalism in Crisis , the in-de…
Promoters of the new high speed rail line (HS2) between London and Birmingham claim that it will generate £2 of economic benefit for every £1 spent. The Government says the benefit will be lower, around £1.40. But if a n…
“The real issue at stake is how the EU can maintain its influence and its relevance in a changing world”, said Lord David Howell, UK Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in his keynote speech of the…
Call it a new kind of capitalism. You make goods to sell to a mass market but your aim isn’t profit. Enterprises are run by workers and customers and surpluses are ploughed back to achieve social goals. Capitalism? Not a…
Commissioned by E!Sharp as part of the series "How to spend the EU budget" and published 9 January 2012, orginal article here . Photo: Spiegel online. Lauri Wylie’s 1963 comedy sketch “Dinner for One” has becom…
Published 1 December 2011, www.alliancemagazine.org , orginal article here . Fiscal consolidation within the European Union means that a stronger social economy is required to deliver where the state can no longer. More …
Commissioned by E!Sharp, Brussels based Journal - 23 Oct 2011 Fiscal consolidation within the European Union means that a stronger social economy is required to underpin the creation of socio-economic prosperity where th…
The world is not ending but the world of finance is changing. Nouriel Roubini, the economist who earned his moniker “Dr Doom” for predicting the financial crisis of 2008, asks “Is capitalism doomed?” in an article by the…
Article for the ResPublica Fringe Magazine 2011 "Essays and Articles from selected political party conference partners" (download magazine here , article on pg 17). 2011, Jointly written for ResPublica by: Fili…
Published 21 April 2011, www.alliancemagazine.org , orginal article here . J P Morgan’s seminal report Impact Investments: An emerging asset class , published in November 2010, is the watershed proclamation that impact i…
Originally prepared for Euclid Network, see here . This short paper is intended as an introduction to the broad spectrum of Social Investment Funds, with the purpose of stimulating debate about the characteristics and va…
The publication of JP Morgan’s seminal report “ Impact Investments: An emerging asset class ” (29 Nov 2010) is the watershed proclamation that Impact Investment is going mainstream. In the wake of the 2007/8 financial cr…