by Tim Mohin John Elkington dubbed this year the “sustainability recession.” One thing worth remembering is recessions always end. There are early signs that the sustainability recession is ending, and the practice is emerging more focused, agile, and pragmatic. The majority of surveys and corporate research released this year have
By Equities Editors Desk When Charles Dolan set out to build a stock exchange, it wasn’t just to create another marketplace for buying and selling equities. As president of the Green Impact Exchange (GIX), Dolan is leading an ambitious effort to reimagine what a stock exchange can be, placing environmental sustainability not on
Key Impact Points: UN Signals Historic Shift in Global Energy Landscape The United Nations has released a landmark report, “Seizing the Moment of Opportunity: Supercharging the New Energy Era”, marking ten years since the Paris Agreement and signaling a pivotal turning point in the global energy transition. “The world is
by LSE Environmental degradation is a structural economic risk rather than a peripheral concern. Nicola Ranger, Carlo Pasqua and Christopher Adam explain why, as international financial institutions review the IMF-World Bank Debt Sustainability Framework, integrating nature must be a core priority. Integrating nature into fiscal policy is a critical priority
2. Energy & Climate: Acceleration Mode 3. Circular Economy: No Longer Optional 4. Nature & Biodiversity: On the Balance Sheet 5. Emerging Priorities AI energy tension:Google DeepMind’s AI cuts energy use in data centers by 30%, but global data centers now consume 340 TWh/year—more than the UK.
By Tim Mohin After narrowly making its way through the Senate and House, President Donald Trump signed his cornerstone tax cuts and spending bill, ‘The One Big Beautiful Bill Act’, on July 4th. The law claws back unobligated funding, expands new oil and gas leasing, changes or eliminates energy and
by Marisa Drew (chief sustainability officer at Standard Chartered) Despite carrying 80% of the world’s trade, absorbing 30% of its carbon-dioxide emissions and providing food security for almost 3 billion people, the global “blue economy” (oceans and waterways) is suffering from acute underinvestment, and nowhere more so than in Africa.
Capital markets need to be better attuned to individual countries’ goals and the interests of workers By Larry Fink – Originally published in the FT June 2025 The global economy is in a strange place: we know more about the next seven years than the next seven days. For nearly
Key Impact Points: A Campus Milestone for Student Wellness Barnard College has officially opened the Francine A. LeFrak Foundation Center for Well-Being—a pioneering facility that unites three essential pillars of health: physical, mental, and financial. The June 3rd ribbon-cutting marked the culmination of five years of vision and commitment from
“Hope is the most powerful force for human progress.” These words, penned by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Óscar Arias Sánchez, open the pages of a bold new book that dares to reimagine the future: Hope for Life on Our Planet: Inspiration for Seven Generations. In a moment marked by escalating
