Assaad Razzouk
Eco-Business
Singapore
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ESG investing today is somewhere between a joke and a scam. We need to act, fast
ESG refers to the Environmental, Social and Governance risks embedded in a business, while ESG investing is about taking these risks into account in investment decisions. Put another way, ESG is everything not on a company's balance sheet or earnings; and that is precisely its Achilles' heel. → Read More
High time for a Green New Deal for Singapore
For a rich country, Singapore is not doing nearly enough to tackle climate change, and has chosen to spend billions on adaptation rather than prevention. Here's what the city-state could and should... → Read More
Green bonds do more harm than good
Green bonds are designed to fund projects that have positive environmental benefits. But they're being used to mask environmental destruction. We should fix... → Read More
3 reasons we’re losing the climate battle, and 1 reason we’re winning the war
Capital markets are punishing companies that are trying to do good today, but it’s the capital markets that will inevitably be the ones to suffer, writes... → Read More
Time for the Green Climate Fund to grow up fast, or it will die slow
The Green Climate Fund is an essential institution to finance the global shift away from fossil fuel to clean technologies—but it needs an overhaul to remain effective and relevant, says Sindicatum... → Read More
It’s time to get rid of all the green crap in politics
There shouldn't be a dedicated government department for climate change and energy - all ministries should be equally sensitive to these issues, says Sindicatum Sustainable Resources chief executive... → Read More
Memo to the Financial Markets: Cheap Oil is Great
Exhibitionist more than ever, Wall Street is loudly proclaiming, principally through a painful exercise of financial self-flagellation, that falling oil prices are bad news for the economy and for t → Read More
2016: The Year the Oil Era Enters Terminal Decline
2015 was a landmark year for climate action. Its many highlights were topped by a Paris agreement where 195 countries set themselves on a low-carbon path via economy-wide plans sure to be developed and strengthened every year. → Read More
5 reasons why low oil prices are good for the environment
Low oil prices are to be cheered: may they stay low for a long time and decrease even further. Here are five reasons why they are great for our health and that of the planet. → Read More
If you're worried about immigration, then you should be terrified about climate change
On Sunday, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report, reiterating, for those who haven’t yet noticed, that we are on the brink of epochal changes driven by climate change, and that we must act now to avoid the worst impacts. → Read More
A barrage of lawsuits is needed to curb climate change
Institutional investors command a stratospheric £70 trillion of assets and tens of millions of savers worldwide depend on them. These investors continue to back the 90 companies responsible for two-thirds of the harmful emissions generated since the industrial age began. The scientific community is absolutely certain that climate change is a clear, present and massive danger and scientists continue… → Read More
How to slow climate change? Target the 90 companies who pollute the most
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on Sunday its third of four planned reports. This one is on mitigation, or the “human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases.” There have been many such reports before by the IPCC and others; and many more reports are on their way. → Read More
Renewable energy targets are bad policy. Here are five reasons to prove it
In its White Paper on a 2030 framework for climate and energy policies released today, the EU announced an overall target requiring renewable energy to supply some 27 per cent of the EU's energy by 2030 but did not set country-specific targets. → Read More
What climate action can we expect in 2014?
The year just passed may be remembered as a watershed year in climate policy. While climate impacts seem to be occurring more quickly than scientists have ever predicted, we may have witnessed in 2013 the permanent failure of 22 years of United Nations-led climate talks and the “top down” solutions these championed. Emerging instead, with strong momentum, are “bottom up” approaches anchored around… → Read More
Climate Action: A consensus of the sensible can beat polluters' PR
Last month, the most thorough scientific review of climate science in history was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. However, confirmation of clear, dangerous and present epochal changes in our planet drowned in the noisy coverage of the UK’s carnival-esque party conferences, the US Government shutdown, and coquettish phone calls between Americans and Iranians. → Read More