Portfolios at risk of Deforestation
How can financial investors better understand underlying risks and act accordingly By Amanda Wildhaber, Dominik Wingeier, Jessica Brügger, Nico Meier, and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen...
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Apr 13, 2021
Remote research: A story about “being there”
By Elizabeth Cooper ◦ 2 min read ◦ It has now been more than a year since researchers have been forced to move most of...
Mar 25, 2021
SFDR, NFRD and the EU Taxonomy – What is their relationship?
By Andreas Rasche ◦ 5 min read ◦ The new Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) is on the minds of many investors these days. While a lot...
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Mar 19, 2021
Arguing for Climate Adaptation
By Stella Whittaker ◦ 3 min read ◦ This month saw the publication of the Climate Policy Initiative’s (CPI) long awaited analysis of climate...
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Who really cares about the SDGs when it comes to nobody’s responsibility?
By Suhyon Oh ◦ 2 min read ◦ The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the common goals of global development as we all agreed. Since its...
A Southern-centered perspective on climate change in global value chains?
By Peter Lund-Thomsen ◦ 2 min read ◦ The garment and textile industries account for around 10% of global CO2 emissions, and their fast fashion approach...
Do we need to sacrifice to mitigate climate change?
By Laura Krumm ◦ 3 min read ◦ It is not news anymore that a change of consumer behavior is needed in order to...
Counting Trees in the Hopes of Managing Forests – Technological solutions to palm oil deforestation?
By Isaac Caiger-Smith, Izabela Delabre and Kristjan Jespersen In recent years, companies dealing in global commodities – such as palm oil, soy and timber...
Sustainability claims: In what sense are they performative?
By Lars Thøger Christensen The number of products advertised as “green” or climate neutral has exploded in recent years, according to several newspaper articles....
Insecure work: rethinking precarity through Kenya’s tea plantations
By Hannah Elliott Over the last decade, the term ‘precarity’ has become ubiquitous in studies of work and labor, as jobs are increasingly characterized...
Different pathways to sustainability standard adoption
How local norms may be able to help drive the spread of voluntary programs – the case of the RSPO in Japan. By Hattaya...