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.
The Aggregate Confusion Project at MIT has done a great job of analysing why there is a tremendous divergence between different sources of impact data (sustainability data). They conclude that the biggest contributing fa…
To find the answer, we need to go back to the origin of the word “data”. ‘Etymology can give a startling new perspective on many of the phrases we frequently toss around in business’, says Gillian Tett in her FT column L…
Sumptuous Accounting™ is an intellectual provocation, taking a light-hearted approach to a very serious issue – fixing capitalism. The working paper Sumptuous Accounting™ uses the sci-fi genre and a story-telling narrati…
A landmark study released today via the Government's open data portal reveals for the first time historic performance of UK social investment activity. The total financial performance (comparing all capital draw down…
Money, finance and capital markets are social constructs that have ostensibly evolved for societal purpose. Yet paradoxically finance and enterprises that intentionally target social returns need to be prefixed with the …
Great article by my co-founder Rupert Evenett explaining why we're passionate about creating EngagedX. Normative Capital - On Social Investment, Finance for Social Purpose and the Role of the City Data unlocks capita…
The Commission on Banking Standards is appointed by both Houses of Parliament to consider and report on: professional standards and culture of the UK banking sector, taking account of regulatory and competition investiga…
Press release: 11 December 2012, London (reblogged here 12 Dec) Engaged Investment has launched a pilot to test the creation of the world’s first investment index for the growing emerging market of social investment (‘im…
Tomorrow (5 Dec) in Brussels I will be presenting my views on the impact measurement discourse at a conference on "Measuring the Social Impact of Social Enterprises". My approach will be to explore how to frame…