Block Biden’s Climate Regulation
The Left is weaponizing corporate America—and our investments—as a tool to advance their radical ideology.
ASA Urges SEC to Drop Climate-Disclosure Rule
The American Securities Association (ASA) today submitted a comment letter urging the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to drop its climate-disclosure rule and refrain from fundamentally transforming the securities laws in this way without express Congressional authorization.
Conservative shareholders attack ‘climate clown show’
Conservative rabble-rouser Steve Milloy wasn’t happy last year when sustainable investment advocates scored a series of major victories at the annual meeting of Exxon Mobil Corp.
Woke Investment CEO Claims He’s Saving the World By Raking In Money from China
Larry Fink, the CEO of the woke investment firm Blackrock, thinks he is saving the world and preventing climate change by shaking down American fossil fuel companies – conveniently while raking in money from the world’s biggest polluter, China.
Those Ugly Climate Models
The narrative that man is cooking his planet like an overdone Thanksgiving turkey has survived only because the media have propped it up.
The Profound Junk Science of Climate
Climate change prophecy hangs its hat on computer climate models.
Climate-Risk Disclosure: A Flimsy Pretext for a Green Power Grab
Central banks and financial regulators are not being honest about their authority, expertise, and intent in pursuing mandatory climate-risk disclosures and risk models.
No one knows how $80 billion in climate financing was spent in 2019
Over the past decade, rich nations and private enterprises have raised at least $500 billion to help developing countries cope with climate change.
Climate Doomism
I’ve been thinking a lot about doom.
Business can’t rally around climate goals until politicians turn those goals into law
Advocates of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing seem to have good reason to be optimistic these days. Virtually every day, another news story explains the upward trajectory of assets managed “according to” or “consistent with” an ESG framework. Corporate leaders will no doubt be under even more pressure to embrace the responsible investing movement this week, as heads of state convene for talks at the major United Nations climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow.
ESG Makes Inroads Into Private Markets
A third of global private capital assets is now managed with climate, diversity, and other non-financial goals in mind.
GOP Hostility to New Climate Investing Rule Stalls Benefits Pick
Republican lawmakers’ opposition to a Biden administration proposal to favor environmentally conscious retirement funds is delaying Senate action on President Joe Biden‘s pick to oversee private-sector employee benefits.
China is using the climate as a bargaining chip
China’s President Xi Jinping has apparently not yet decided whether to travel to Glasgow next month for the big climate conference known as COP26. That is no doubt partly because he’s heard about the weather in Glasgow in November, and partly because he knows the whole thing will be a waste of his time. After all, the fact that it is the 26th such meeting and none of the previous 25 solved the problem they set out to solve suggests the odds are that the event will be the flop on the Clyde.
Climate-Crusading Billionaires To Take Their Private Jets To Davos Again Next Year
Here is light at the end of the covid tunnel, at least according to the Davos billionaire crowd who after two years of missing their favorite World Economic Forum conclave where they get to bash things like wealth inequality and climate change shortly after landing in their private jets, are set to return to the ritzy Swiss ski resort in 2022.
Climate, ESG, and the Board of Directors: “You Cannot Direct the Wind, But You Can Adjust Your Sails”
Keynote Address at the 2021 Society for Corporate Governance National Conference – Good morning and thank you for the invitation to speak today at the Society for Corporate Governance 2021 National Conference…