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Banks Going Green But Don’t Tell Anyone

Ah, the heady days of 2021, when the world’s banks suddenly went all hippy and woke.  Marching to the tune of their well-intentioned pied...

Bias Corrections & Fruitful Connections – All at Once

As sustainability is having a rough time on the global investment stage, Nordic institutions have stayed suitably committed and most continue on their integration...

Is There a Way Out of This Plastic Mess?

One of the popular definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.  After the failure last...

Could Our Backup Power Plan Dry Out?

When we think of climate change, we quite rightly think of environmental degradation, pollution, warmer summers, tropical storms and fossil fuels. To address these...

Fashion Recycling: France 1 – Sweden 0

If you live in Sweden, you might have been as confused as I was in January this year when new textile recycling rules came...

Five minutes to Midnight – and We Have not Even Started the Energy Transition

by Torbjörn Hamnmark In the film Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, there is a striking idea: the half hour before midnight belongs...

June Heatwave Reveals Climate Change Toll

According to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), June 2025 was the third-warmest June globally, with an average ERA5 surface air temperature of...

Urgent Call for COP Reform

At time of writing on 24 June 2025, the delegates at the sixty-second sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and...

The Future of Power is Power, not Bragging Rights

The fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine three years ago has had many faces. For economists, the focus has mainly been on inflation. For...

Flipping the Script on the Omnibus Reform

by Philip Mitchell, Senior Sustainability Advisor, Formue Turkeys rarely vote for Christmas. And we’re not surprised by the view they take. Nobody seems truly satisfied...

Gaining Power over Power

Mid-May marked a huge milestone in Europe's history but somehow with the constant noise coming from the other side of the Atlantic, we didn't...

Something Fishy Going On

There is sometimes such a level of absurdity within the world of sustainability that you might think some sort of darkly humorous prank is...

Can Sustainable Investments Protect You From Trump?

When Trump was elected, many in the market naturally worried that his aversion to ESG would negatively affect the sustainability agenda. However, the forecast...

Greenwashed? Lawyer Up!

It is no big secret that the Laundromat is no big fan of Coca Cola.  The world’s third largest food and drink company is...

Has Sustainable Investing Become a Job for Suits?

Having just returned to Stockholm after attending the Sustainable Investment Forum Europe 2025 in Paris, I cannot help but wonder: has sustainable investing become...

Happy (Forgotten) Earth Day?

As we celebrate World Earth Day 2025 amid difficult global conditions, it is worth taking stock of where we are, how the planet is...

The Coolest Get-Rich-Quick Opportunity

Check your investment portfolios. Have you got nice fat chunks of Hitachi, LG, Daikin, Samsung, and Voltas shares? Disclaimer: NordSIP does not recommend stocks....

Fighting Populism With Care, Kindness, Trust (and Accountability)

We're only just over the first quarter of 2025 and it is already clear this is going to be a disturbing year. The shifting...

Change the Name Not the Game

Have you ever met anyone who claims they were there when the term ESG was coined? The official story is that it first appeared...

The Road to COP30

The road to Belém. That is the headline on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) page dedicated to the upcoming 30th Conference...

Can Corporate Governance Survive Trump?

As the world collectively reeled from the Trump-Zelensky White House meeting debacle, I was prompted to take stock of the new administration's effects on...

The Proof of the BPudding

It seems we have finally arrived at the point where the age-old battle of 'divest vs. engage' has found a real-life testing ground. BP...

The Dog Ate my NDC

We have all been there. The deadline for your annual tax return is looming large, but you are busy pairing all your loose socks....

CSRD: A Boon to Nordic Financial Institutions?

By Tom Willman, Regulatory Lead at Clarity AI The beginning of 2025 has already seen a flurry of political activity related to sustainable finance regulation. The debate...

Liar Liar Pants on Fire

Given the communication technology we have access to nowadays, it is surprising (if not utterly irritating) that companies still get away with blatant lies....

Will Civil Preparedness Save ESG?

In a world where ESG has become politically anathema and after several years of underperformance, sustainability specialists are having to twist themselves into knots...

Laundromat Greenwasher of the Year 2024

Last year the Laundromat sought to overshadow the Oscars, Grammies, Baftas, Golden Globes, Nobel Prizes, and other prestigious awards with the launch of its...

When the Tide Goes Out…

Who doesn't love a good party? In the corporate world including finance, celebrations certainly play an important role. They reward efforts and facilitate team...

Flatulent Climate Skepticism

Over the last  fifteen years, social media has revolutionised much about our individual lives and societies. However, what started as a way to stay...

Big or Small Steps to Save the Planet?

The end of the year is traditionally a time for stocktaking and making resolutions for the coming 12 months. This is often assumed to...

To Kill or Not to Kill ESG

A recent post by Aswath Damodaran (which title is worth quoting: The Siren Song of Sustainability: The Theocratic Trifecta's Third Leg! no emphasis added)...

Know Your Enemy: Understanding Climate Disinformation

Climate conferences are likes buses; you wait all year for one then three arrive all at once. We are still sifting through the wreckage...

Why Companies Should Not Set Net-Zero Targets

by Matthew Smith, Strategy Lead, Sustainability Integration at Advisense Over the past few years, the number of private companies setting net-zero emissions goals by 2050...

We Need to be Serious about Deforestation and Responsible Timber

The global inability to see the dangers posed by deforestation and our ability to find endless counter-arguments to addressing biodiversity issues needs to end....

Time for a Chemical Portfolio Audit

Remember plucky paralegal Erin Brockovich taking the Pacific Gas and Electric Company to the proverbial cleaners for contaminating the groundwater in Hinkley, California for...

Trust, Disclaimers and Carbon Credits

In last week’s column about the PRI in Person, the Snap touched on the contrast between the American tendency to make hyperbolic statements against...

Circular Thinking at the PRI in Person

As we wrap up this year’s PRI in Person in Toronto, it is difficult to remain as skeptical as this column tends to be....

Bioplastics and California Dreamin’

The plastic-obsessed Laundromat is always on the lookout for some good news on the ongoing crisis involving the ubiquitous but highly damaging material.  This...

Countering Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt

Having been engaged in several galas and other celebratory events lately, I do enjoy the idea of inviting a provocative keynote speaker or perhaps...

Choose Your Words, CEOs!

Last week,  Stockholm appeals court ruled that former Swedbank CEO Birgitte Bonnesen was guilty of making misleading, financially damaging statements about the bank’s poor...

EVs, Treacle, and FUD

The journey towards sustainability is like wading through treacle.  As Al Gore, António Guterres and Fatih Birol keep loudly reminding us, the world has...

The Governance Dilemma

Governance isn’t typically the topic that makes the man on the street jump up and down with trepidation. Not so for sustainable investment professionals...

Why is Microsoft Buying CRUs?

At the beginning of August, I wrote an article about a reforestation-linked bond issued by the World Bank (WB). The security accomplished the interesting...

Ultra-Processed Portfolios

A corporate match made in heaven – for the parties involved, or hell – for humanity and the planet.  The very first Laundromat honed...

Mystery in Skellefteå

As the temperature cools, we'll soon settle back indoors and cuddle on the couch with a good show on TV. Perhaps a good old...

Quintet of Climate Hypocrites

It is July and things are relatively quiet in NordSIP’s hometown of Stockholm.  However, before long the ESG train will begin rolling again once...

A Beef With Degrowth

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Over the last several years, a range of proposals falling under the heading of “degrowth” have come to gain prominence in...

No Replay for &Repeat

If you are a consumer in the Nordics and especially in Sweden, the brand &Repeat might ring a bell. For me, it certainly did,...

Transition Guardrails Needed

The NordSIP Laundromat has had to get the builders in to construct an extension.  There was no longer enough room to accommodate all the...

A ‘Solid’ Future for Batteries?

I'm often skeptical of new technologies. It is not that I'm a Luddite. Innovation is a crucial part of the way the modern world...

Godfathers of Climate Chaos

Is United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres a NordSIP subscriber?  Has he actually been reading all these Laundromat rants against greenwashing and climate denial?  We...

LSE Sad Second Choice for SHEIN IPO

Fast fashion behemoth SHEIN is on the verge of listing its shares on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), according to media reports on Monday...

We Need to be Serious About Small Modular Reactors

Not that long ago, NordSIP published a series of articles on nuclear power. At the time, ESG wasn't as politicised and weaponised in US...

Microsoft’s Carbon Overshoot

“Start a post, try writing with AI” is how LinkedIn has recently taken to greeting me, in a clear sign that the robots are...

How Much Stock Should we Put on Carbon Capture?

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is having a moment in the Nordics. At the start of May, Microsoft and Stockholm Exergi announced they had...

Musk’s Paypacket Dawn of Correction

This week the soundtrack to the Laundromat is Shadows by Dawn of Correction – more on that later.  Nordic investors with misgivings towards Tesla...

Arms Against Windmills

Just as I am getting ready to abandon the safe-media-haven of NordSIP, heading back towards the stormy waters of portfolio management, I stumble upon...

Gangster Tactics on Plastics

Bringing the bad guys into the room to help solve a problem can sometimes work.  There are many instances of reformed gangsters successfully working...

Plastic Polluters’ Canadian Conundrum

The Laundromat’s dedication to chasing down all things plastic pollution may be reaching obsession level at this point.  At time of writing the powers...

Shell Doesn’t Shock

You should know that serving on the board of oil giant Shell is not for the fainthearted. Remember the unsettling scenes from the previous...

ExxonMobil Picks a Fight With Church

ExxonMobil has responded to a shareholder resolution on plastics with an astonishing attack on the filer and arguably the entire concept of shareholder democracy. ...

Too Hot for 55

Just as I was quietly celebrating my 55th birthday earlier this week, news broke about a proper celebration happening further south, at the European...

Beware Clowns in Toilets

It is surprising how often the food industry has featured in the two-year life of the Laundromat so far.  It is responsible for mountains...

Sustainable Profit(eering)

The old magic mantra of ‘doing well by doing good’, allegedly coined by American founding father Benjamin Franklin, is still good as gold among...

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