Simon Mundy

Clean tech start-ups are facing funding constraints — especially around the stage where they need to build their first full-scale plant. But investors and government institutions are starting to rise to the challenge. Today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter: https://t.co/y5SYenYp4m

I enjoyed taking part in this new @FT film, which asks who killed the ESG party — and whether we may now be moving into a more serious, substantive phase of the drive towards cleaner, fairer capitalism. https://t.co/N28fbBXCi0

The ugly, deadly saga over @Boeing's 737 Max is a reminder that even the hardest-nosed financial investors ignore issues of social responsibility at their peril. Today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter: https://t.co/soW29nnu1G

The UK's incoming government has made low-carbon development an organising principle. How will it try to meet its ambitious clean energy targets, and what opportunities will this create for investors? Today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter: https://t.co/U7WQQ8XZBb

Is the US inching towards imposing carbon border tariffs? This area of policy is "one of the few places where there’s bipartisan conversation", White House climate point man @johnpodesta told me and @AttractaMooney . Today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter: https://t.co/3yxLrvARex

In today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter, I unpack the debate around "sustainable bitcoin". Is this concept as silly as you might think? https://t.co/RGA1V6Ly33

In today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter: - @leee_harris on the health-related shareholder votes today at @CocaCola and @PepsiCo - I reveal a new letter of complaint from advisors to the SBTi after its board's controversial statement on carbon offsetting https://t.co/2Ho3Sf9Qao

RT @NVJRobins1: Esther Duflo: Rich world owes $500bn in ‘moral debt’ to poor countries for climate harm - and targeted taxes on companies &…

RT @climateconomics: Esther Duflo: "$500bn a year. That’s the mortality damage that rich countries impose on poor countries. That’s what I…

RT @Jderbyshire: Good @simonmundy interview with Esther Duflo on the "moral debt" owed by the rich world to the poor https://t.co/G0IQgKdh…

For today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter, I spoke to Nobel-winning economist Esther Duflo about her new proposal to use tax rises on corporate profits and billionaires' wealth to fund climate adaptation and disaster response in developing nations. https://t.co/AwokYSbke7

In today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter, I explained what's behind the extraordinary staff revolt inside the highly influential climate body SBTi. https://t.co/X1CmaSrMrN

In today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter I looked at new analysis from @ShareAction of UK bank @Barclays' climate policy, which highlights how the @IEA's recent softening of language around fossil fuel investment could have serious financial implications. https://t.co/S3pKlkDbgf

Leaders in business and finance are now grappling with a question that probably wouldn't have occurred to most of them until recently: what does a responsible approach to AI look like? @seremony's latest excellent report for the FT Moral Money Forum: https://t.co/SodNz8JJKU

For investors in companies like Shein and Inditex, perhaps the biggest risk of all is that fast fashion simply stops being fashionable. Today's @ftmoralmoney newsletter: https://t.co/OMn2wBsWnA

Cutting carbon emissions must be the first priority for serious climate action. But the other side of the net zero ledger — carbon dioxide removal — needs a serious strategy too, I argue in the latest @ftmoralmoney newsletter. https://t.co/djrqd2FXBA