ESG investing and the energy transition have failed to reduce global carbon emissions over the last decade. What factors have slowed the energy transition? And how should investors prepare for the next ten years?
The fluid and often conflicting narratives around artificial intelligence (AI) are challenging for all of us. But what’s hard fact, and what’s speculative fiction? And how should we think about AI as we look to …
Our Harrogate office recently hosted a guest speaker event, where energy expert Graham Cooley gave a talk on the UK Energy Transition, asking the question ‘Is full electrification the answer to decarbonisation?’ Graham outlined where …
Our London Office hosted Dr Gavin Law as part of a series of talks on the energy transition and climate change. Dr Law is Head of Gas and Power Consulting at Wood MacKenzie and is …
Most big public companies profess a keen concern to justify “green” credentials. But we urgently require a more coherent means of testing the reality of corporate commitment to the cause. This piece suggests such a …
Our London office hosted Julian Kettle from Wood Mackenzie for a talk on the importance of metals in the energy transition.
A number of countries (including the UK) acknowledge the worth of non-economic factors to people’s wellbeing and many try to measure their scale. None, however, yet appear to have identified national happiness as their central …
Professor Allen’s talk is insightful, thought-provoking and highlights some of the complex issues that have to be considered when making investment decisions with climate change in mind.
When it comes to refreshment of the mind and emotional release, the creative and performing arts play a vital role. Their value is underestimated.
Deprived of audiences and normal sources of income, the arts need …
Pressures from the Virus are reinforcing changes in social priorities. The political class bows in response. Beyond the immediate ghastliness we may find the building blocks of a better future.
‘Bonus’ incentives had become disproportionate to any value contributed and stakeholders were increasingly intolerant of them. Far the most effective incentive to do one’s best is job satisfaction, not extravagant remuneration.
One could hardly exaggerate how angry people were in 2009. In Britain, there has never been any shortage of the disaffected. But by summer that year, passions came to the boil and the apparent reasons …
Beguiled by the claims of some financial practitioners, investors seemed repeatedly to be mistaking where investment treasure was to be found.
Regular caricature of the City tipster had no doubt coloured perceptions, but the financial …
Half way through Tony Blair’s 10 year term, disillusionment had set in. Much had been promised and much expected. Failure to meet targets set for public services fed public frustration and fostered mistrust.
An air …
Sport was one area where the founders of the firm fell out. One, a thoroughly modern man, a realist, harboured no Arcadian dreams about what once was known as the ‘amateur’ ethos: the other, a …
Despite glorious weather throughout the summer of 1995, the public mood had been soured by dark resentment. Executive pay at British Gas had become a lightning rod for malcontents, but a wider underlying concern centred …
By the Spring of 1992, concerns were being aired at meetings of the G7 and other international forums, about the flattening out of economic growth rates and the possibility of renewed recession. Growth in the …
Rather against the odds, John Major had been re-elected at the April 1992 general election. The opposition leader, Neil Kinnock, for all his success in modernising Labour Party policy, had been perceived as shallow and …
1990 was the base year of calculation under the Kyoto Protocol for monitoring progress towards the agreed target emission reductions, country by country. As early as 1988, Mrs Thatcher had noted in a seminal speech …
Sheer power of personality to carry through a stratagem, however harmful, revealed itself as clearly in the political and economic events of 1989 as it had in wartime.
We felt then, as we do now, …
