One of the few bright spots in an otherwise dismal global response to the escalating climate crisis has been the preparedness of financial market regulators to force their regulated institutions to face up to the implications of climate risk. In so doing, they have been acutely aware of the lessons…
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The Net Zero Emission Illusion
As the need for serious action to prevent runaway global warming becomes critical, it is not surprising that efforts from the denialist lobby to prevent that action intensify, albeit in more subtle form than the blanket refusal of yesteryear to even accept that a climate problem existed. Around the world,…
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If Business Leaders Want To Regain Our Trust, They Must Act On Climate Risk
Business leaders seem astonished that community trust in their activities is at an all-time low, trending toward the bottom of the barrel inhabited by politicians. To the corporate leader dedicated to the capitalist, market economy success story of the last 50 years, that attitude is no doubt incomprehensible and downright…
Stop Spreading Disinformation on Coal Demand
In their book Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations, published prior to the Paris climate change meeting last December, Chris Wright and Daniel Nyberg highlighted how the dominance of neoliberalism in recent decades has locked the global economy on to a path of “creative self-destruction”, built around the oxymoron of “green…
Coal – The Captain’s Call & It’s Catastrophic Implications
The last few days have demonstrated just how far out of touch the Australian media and political incumbency are from critical climate change events happening around the world. The Australian recently launched yet another tirade against supposed bias in the ABC’s handling of climate change, followed up by a stern…