🌱 ESG & SUSTAINABILITY
2026
One Man's Food Is Another Man's Poison— Forbes, Mar 1, 2026
2025
If Not Now, Then When? — Forbes, Nov 11, 2025
Would the US Government Want to Issue CAT Bonds at Scale to Finance Losses from Climate Change? — Forbes, Sep 29, 2025
2024
Can We Trace Who Bears the Billions of Losses Due to Severe Weather Events? — Forbes, Dec 19, 2024
Lessons for Sustainability Investing from the 2024 Election — Forbes, Nov 19, 2024
Climate Change Reporting Policy: Are We Barking Up the Wrong Tree? — Forbes, Mar 26, 2024
The SEC's New Climate Rule Is a Reasonable Political Compromise in an Election Year — Forbes, Mar 6, 2024
2023
The Hotchpotch World of Financed Emissions: A Case Study of Top Four US Banks — Forbes, Apr 19, 2023
Does Private Equity Have an ESG Problem? — Part 2— Forbes, Aug 4, 2023
Does Private Equity Have an ESG Problem? — Part 1 — Forbes, Aug 3, 2023
Is There a Relatively Easy Fix to Mollify Critics of ESG Investing? — Forbes, Jun 12, 2023
A Closer Look at the No ESG at TSP Act — Forbes, Jul 4, 2023
A Closer Look at the Ensuring Sound Guidance (ESG) Act — Forbes, Jul 3, 2023
Has the ESG Train Left the Station? — Forbes, Feb 8, 2023
What If Both Sides of the ESG Debate Are Right About US Oil and Gas Investments? — Forbes, Jan 19, 2023
Sustainability Can Be About Operations and Services, Not Necessarily Values — Forbes, Jan 8, 2023
2022
A Comparative Analysis of Incorporating Climate Risk in Investment Portfolios: AXA vs Chubb, Liberty Mutual and Travelers — Forbes, Nov 18, 2022
A Comparative Analysis of Incorporating Climate Risk in Underwriting Insurance — Forbes, Nov 16, 2022
Where Is the US Insurance Industry on Climate Change? — Forbes, Nov 10, 2022
Did the Texas ESG Ban Have Any Bite? — Forbes, Oct 14, 2022
Does the Anti-Woke MAGA ETF Inadvertently Make the Case for ESG? — Forbes, Oct 3, 2022
A Closer Look at the Investment Thesis Underlying Vivek Ramaswamy's New ETF Named DRLL — Forbes, Sep 2, 2022
ESG — A Defense, A Critique and a Way Forward — Part 3 — Forbes, Sep 1, 2022
ESG — A Defense, A Critique and a Way Forward — Part 2 — Forbes, Aug 28, 2022
ESG — A Defense, A Critique and a Way Forward — Part 1 — Forbes, Aug 21, 2022
Focus, Focus, Focus: A Common Sense Way to Reduce ESG Sprawl — Forbes, Aug 5, 2022
What Are the Limitations of the GHG Protocol? — Forbes, Jul 8, 2022
Why I Support the SEC's Proposed Climate Risk Disclosure Rules — Forbes, Jun 12, 2022
A First Look at the SEC's New ESG Funds Disclosure Rule — Forbes, Jun 6, 2022
Why Do Critics Claim That the SEC Has Over-Reached with Climate Risks?— Forbes, Apr 20, 2022
Asset-Lite Companies Rely on Labor-Based Arbitrage — Forbes, Mar 20, 2022
How to Integrate ESG Criteria into Financial Analysis: The Case of Coca-Cola — Forbes, Feb 1, 2022
Unsolicited Advice for the ISSB — Forbes, Jan 15, 2022
Investing in Sustainability for Emerging Markets — Forbes, Jan 1, 2022
2021
Does Philip Morris International Provide the Managerial Playbook for Western Oil Majors? — Forbes, Dec 19, 2021
ESG Default Insurance — Forbes, Nov 1, 2021
Is There Truth in Advertising of ESG Funds? — Forbes, Oct 4, 2021
10 Open Questions for the $40 Trillion Dollar ESG Industry— Forbes, Sep 22, 2021
The Road to Energy Transition Is Paved with Good Intentions — Part 2 — Forbes, Sep 2, 2021
The Road to Energy Transition Is Paved with Good Intentions — Part 1 — Forbes, Aug 23, 2021
Would a $100 Per Ton Carbon Tax Get ExxonMobil to Right Its Errant Ways? — Forbes, Aug 6, 2021
An Inconvenient Truth — Forbes, Jul 15, 2021
The How of Carbon Reporting in the US — Forbes, Jun 1, 2021
Are Companies Tying CEO Pay to ESG Because It's Not Linked to Performance? — Forbes, Apr 29, 2021
A Tale of Two ESG Investors Since COP 21 — Forbes, Mar 16, 2021
Why Don't Governments Put Out ESG Reports? — Forbes, Feb 4, 2021
2020
What's the Future of ESG Investing? — Forbes, Oct 25, 2020
Green Fiscal Stimulus: How Will Policy Makers Ensure That the Money Is Well Spent? — Forbes, Oct 2, 2020
What's Behind the Label: Quality, ESG, Value, Growth? — Forbes, Jun 10, 2020
How Is ESG Performing in the COVID-19 Crisis? — Forbes, May 21, 2020
Why Don't ESG Investors Ask for a Public Firm's Tax Return? — Forbes, Apr 24, 2020
Rated 'S': Corporate Handouts Should Be Part of the ESG Scorecard — Forbes, Apr 16, 2020
Holding Firms Accountable to ESG Goals Is Tricky — Forbes, Mar 18, 2020
2019
Is There Real Virtue Behind the Business Roundtable's Signaling? — Wall Street Journal, Dec 2, 2019
2018
The ABCs of ESG: ESG Ratings Are Not Reliable Enough — Reuters Breaking Views, Aug 10, 2018