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)...
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...
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....
Remember plucky paralegal Erin Brockovich taking the Pacific Gas and Electric Company to the proverbial cleaners for contaminating the groundwater in Hinkley, California for...
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...
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...
The journey towards sustainability is like wading through treacle. As Al Gore, António Guterres and Fatih Birol keep loudly reminding us, the world has...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ExxonMobil has responded to a shareholder resolution on plastics with an astonishing attack on the filer and arguably the entire concept of shareholder democracy. ...
Just as I was quietly celebrating my 55th birthday earlier this week, news broke about a proper celebration happening further south, at the European...
This week the Laundromat was tempted to publish a blank page signifying its speechlessness in the face of ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods’ assertion that...
R.I.P. Re:NewCell!
It hurts to see another poster-child sustainable solution company bite the dust.
“I regret to inform that we have been forced to take this...
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a nice concept. Companies make their money providing useful goods and services while being fine corporate citizens, taking care...
Have you been following the recent CSDDD cliffhanger?
For those of you not yet accustomed to the wonderful lingo of sustainable regulation acronyms, let me...
“World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit” reads the BBC News headline this morning. Perhaps just as troubling are the two hyperlinks...
Hurray! New Hampshire’s investment managers might, after all, avoid going to jail for acting as responsible investors. On 30 January, the New Hampshire House...
The Laundromat has disappeared down a plastic-bottled-mineral-water rabbit hole.
It started with plastic waste. As the world focuses on reducing fossil fuel use in the...
Hundreds of politicians, business leaders, and celebrities are yet again jam-packing snowy Davos for that annual meeting of minds and egos, the World Economic...
As Nordic investors slowly emerge from several cosy weeks of Christmas languor and overindulgence, a sobering reality awaits. Double-digit sub-zero temperatures aside, the landscape...
Another year, and Laundromat’s war against all things greenwashing continues. Last year we explored bogus carbon neutrality claims, sportswashing and the impressive efforts of...
Hurray! Sustainable communication wizard Jakob Trollbäck and his colleagues at The New Division, the very same team that devised the legendary wheel of the...
“Sweden’s climate emissions both increased and decreased in 2022,” announced the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket), rather cryptically on 14 December. I don’t know...
COP28 began today, Thursday 30 November with what seemed like a significant success. The Loss and Damage fund moved from abstract concept towards reality,...
With the sun-kissed allure of Dubai calling out to climate champions this week, deviating from the conventional advent celebrations appears to be a straightforward...
NordSIP’s Laundromat listened attentively to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) webcast today, 23 November 2023, during which they perfectly encapsulate the absurd dilemma of...
“The whole world is clinging to the handrails on a boat that is lurching through increasingly turbulent seas. Nobody is safe.” Unfortunately, the dramatic...
Stockholm (NordSIP) – Here we go again. The familiar whiff of panic, the series of last-minute preparatory meetings, and the persistent disagreements over fundamental...
Earlier this week, at gatherings for representatives of the Swedish sustainability community, I couldn’t help but notice the nervous anticipation and foreboding in the...