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Covering the drive for a better world economy @FT @ftmoralmoney | Book: RACE FOR TOMORROW (details/order link below) | Before: 🇿🇦🇰🇷🇮🇳🌍
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Joined February 2009
🚨PUBLICATION DAY🚨. My book #RaceForTomorrow is out now: exploring the climate struggle through a 2-year journey across six continents. Global purchase links at This amazing video by Toby Madden using my footage gives a sense of what the book's all about
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RT @BasuAshis: Started reading #RaceForTomorrow by @simonmundy vast in its scope, and coverage of global climate change issues, written aft….
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Asset retirement obligations are a huge financial liability hanging over US oil and gas companies — on which they are failing to provide proper transparency in their public accounts, according to a group of international investors.
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Investor group alleges that US oil and gas groups are breaking the rules on corporate financial disclosure
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Want to have your voice heard in an FT podcast?. @ftmoralmoney is teaming up with the Behind the Money podcast for an episode addressing questions about what “responsible” business and finance really looks like. Submit a question via voice note here:
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Clean tech start-ups are facing funding constraints — especially around the stage where they need to build their first full-scale plant. But investors and government institutions are starting to rise to the challenge. Today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter:.
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Climate start-ups have struggled to raise finance to prove their systems at scale
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I enjoyed taking part in this new @FT film, which asks who killed the ESG party — and whether we may now be moving into a more serious, substantive phase of the drive towards cleaner, fairer capitalism.
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The ugly, deadly saga over @Boeing's 737 Max is a reminder that even the hardest-nosed financial investors ignore issues of social responsibility at their peril. Today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter:.
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Compromising on product safety to pursue profit gains isn’t just bad for society
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The UK's incoming government has made low-carbon development an organising principle. How will it try to meet its ambitious clean energy targets, and what opportunities will this create for investors?. Today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter:.
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Incoming UK government has made low-carbon growth an organising principle
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Is the US inching towards imposing carbon border tariffs?. This area of policy is "one of the few places where there’s bipartisan conversation", White House climate point man @johnpodesta told me and @AttractaMooney . Today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter:.
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Biden climate adviser John Podesta sits down with Moral Money to explain the administration’s shift in thinking
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In today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter, I unpack the debate around "sustainable bitcoin". Is this concept as silly as you might think?.
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Also in today’s newsletter, some top banks are still expanding in fossil fuel finance, says a new report
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In today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter:. - @leee_harris on the health-related shareholder votes today at @CocaCola and @PepsiCo. - I reveal a new letter of complaint from advisors to the SBTi after its board's controversial statement on carbon offsetting.
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Also in today’s newsletter, a new twist in the Science-Based Targets initiative drama
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RT @NVJRobins1: Esther Duflo: Rich world owes $500bn in ‘moral debt’ to poor countries for climate harm - and targeted taxes on companies &….
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Nobel-winning economist speaks about her climate-focused tax proposal
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RT @climateconomics: Esther Duflo: "$500bn a year. That’s the mortality damage that rich countries impose on poor countries. That’s what I….
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RT @Jderbyshire: Good @simonmundy interview with Esther Duflo on the "moral debt" owed by the rich world to the poor ..
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Nobel-winning economist speaks about her climate-focused tax proposal
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For today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter, I spoke to Nobel-winning economist Esther Duflo about her new proposal to use tax rises on corporate profits and billionaires' wealth to fund climate adaptation and disaster response in developing nations.
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Nobel-winning economist speaks about her climate-focused tax proposal
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In today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter, I explained what's behind the extraordinary staff revolt inside the highly influential climate body SBTi.
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What’s behind the upheaval within the Science-Based Targets initiative
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In today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter I looked at new analysis from @ShareAction of UK bank @Barclays' climate policy, which highlights how the @IEA's recent softening of language around fossil fuel investment could have serious financial implications.
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Also in today’s newsletter, new data on EU carbon emissions
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Leaders in business and finance are now grappling with a question that probably wouldn't have occurred to most of them until recently: what does a responsible approach to AI look like?. @seremony's latest excellent report for the FT Moral Money Forum:.
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For investors in companies like Shein and Inditex, perhaps the biggest risk of all is that fast fashion simply stops being fashionable. Today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter:.
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Retailer Shein is under attack from French lawmakers as it gears up for a public listing
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Cutting carbon emissions must be the first priority for serious climate action. But the other side of the net zero ledger — carbon dioxide removal — needs a serious strategy too, I argue in the latest @ftmoralmoney newsletter.
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Companies are ignoring one side of the ‘net zero’ ledger
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