Green Matters – December 14, 2020

Carbonomics: A new driving force for change.

• The role of AI in carbon reduction and energy efficiency (forbes)

• Pandemic caused CO2 emission to drop of 2.4 billion tonnes, but that’s only 7% of our 39 gigatonne human impact in 2020 (fastcompany)

• E.U. agrees to slash carbon emissions by 2030 (nyt) 

• The green hydrogen dream is no longer a dream (triplepundit)

   

Economy: Life uh, always finds a way…

• Fixing the US child care crisis could deliver $1.6 trillion boost to GDP (bloomberg)

• One in six restaurants has closed nationwide due to pandemic (bloomberg)

• Pandemic + recession = multiple expansion? (compound)

• Eighth annual conscious consumer spending index results are in (csrwire)

   

Glass Ceilings: It’s time to step up.

• New report: missing perspectives – women six times less likely to be expert, source or protagonist in news stories (shethepeople)

• New report: only 8% of all chair, CEO and CFO positions are occupied by women at S&P 500 companies (equileap)

• Forbes releases 2020 list of world’s 100 most powerful women (forbes)

• Mellody Hobson becomes only Black female board chair of S&P 500 company (bloomberg)

   

Investing: Align your dollars with the rest of your life.

• Survey: Investors plan to double their ESG investing over the next 5 years (blackrock)

• Victory belongs to the patient investor (tebi) 

• The psychology of the stock market, in one image (pragcap) 

• [podcast] Jeff Currie: Goldman Sachs commodities chief on ESG, carbon pricing, and new technologies (smartermarkets) 
   

Corporate Social Responsibility: Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

• Corporate philotomy: the next evolution of corporate social responsibility (hbr)

• CEOs from 37 corporations join the OneTen initiative, pledging 1 million jobs for Black Americans (wsj)

• AI will change the world, so we must make AI more representative (nature)