Climate Change Adaptation Reminders 

Climate Change Adaptation Reminders 

Last year, during a drought (I live in Northern Italy, where we weren’t making headlines for forest fires, but for the lakes being at an all-time low), we were having some earthworks on our property to channel ditched uphill farm runoff into a pipe. When they were...
The Reason they say “No” to Biodiversity 

The Reason they say “No” to Biodiversity 

BloombergNEF recently announced the publishing of The Biodiversity Finance Factbook. The publication provides finance, policy and sustainability professionals with important data to gauge current and required finance flows to biodiversity and further identifies where...
ESG Factors, Or are they? 

ESG Factors, Or are they? 

An Investor associate of mine said to me recently, “Our investees in [country], don’t even know what ESG is, let alone how to manage it.” I was shocked at first, but after giving it some more thought – it made sense.   This investee my associate spoke of,...