Simon Glynn

Oct 29, 2024 | responsible-investor.com | Simon Glynn |Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker

Business leaders and the environmental movement differ on many things. But they largely share one common perspective on climate change, which is to see it through the lens of conservation. For environmentalists, a conservation mindset is deeply rooted – it’s where the movement came from. Chemicals polluting our rivers? We need to clean them up. A hole in the ozone layer? We need to repair it. We need to restore and conserve the status quo, back to the way it was before it was disturbed.

Oct 14, 2024 | responsible-investor.com | Simon Glynn |Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker

In a world where ESG gets politicised, and politics gets polarised, how can businesses or investors take a stand without taking a side? The key is to focus on materiality, not (just) morality. And the magic word that does that job, with all the right allusions for all the right people, is “responsible”. This is the central finding from a comprehensive programme of research published last month by Potential Energy, in partnership with We Mean Business Coalition and Maslansky + Partners.

Sep 17, 2024 | persuasion.community | Simon Glynn

If you had a campaign budget to drive government action on climate change in the United States, what would be the most effective way to spend it? In a meeting I was in to discuss that question, someone came up with a striking answer: We should spend it all on the issue of abortion. They argued that the best way to drive government action on climate change is for the Democrats to hold power, and the best issue to campaign on to achieve that outcome is not climate, but abortion.

Sep 17, 2024 | open.substack.com | Simon Glynn

If you had a campaign budget to drive government action on climate change in the United States, what would be the most effective way to spend it? In a meeting I was in to discuss that question, someone came up with a striking answer: We should spend it all on the issue of abortion. They argued that the best way to drive government action on climate change is for the Democrats to hold power, and the best issue to campaign on to achieve that outcome is not climate, but abortion.

Jun 27, 2024 | responsible-investor.com | Simon Glynn |Elza Holmstedt Pell

The Science-Based Targets initiative has come in for a lot of criticism recently: about its governance, which it has now revised; about its board’s proposal to allow a greater use of offsets to substitute for Scope 3 emissions reductions; and about the way its methodology implicitly allocates the world’s remaining ‘carbon budget’ to incumbents, not leaving any space for new entrants. I would add another methodology concern that makes its Science-Based Targets insufficient.