My latest in the @ssir.org, basically an executive summary of our white paper titled "Financial Backbones: Capital Orchestration for Systems Transformation".

ssir.org/articles/ent...

In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically.

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A sobering article by @dwallacewells.bsky.social, arguing that the spirit of Paris has dissipated and that global climate politics has drifted into a slumbering, complacent mood underpinned by voters wanting climate action in theory but not when it costs much.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

Over the past 12 months, @transcap.bsky.social has been deeply involved in trying to understand what it means to orchestrate financial capital for systemic change. 1/n

I’ve written a piece on the importance of impact investors working in context, published this week in SSIR. Have a look and let me know what you think.

In response to the story broken by @theatlantic.com , let’s all reread this gem: www.theguardian.com/news/oliver-...

In today’s Bloomberg newsletter: BP announces a divestment from renewables and an increase in oil & gas capex, and Mercedes reverses a previous decision not to develop new combustion engines by developing a new V8 combustion engine.

We’re backsliding.

There’s something to be said about making transportation cool, which this kind of metro train does.

We've been busy at @transcap.bsky.social! Time to catch you up on some of what's happened in the past few months:

Observation from the past 6 months of fundraising for the TransCap Initiative: most foundations want to fund the doing, few want to fund the thinking.

I have sympathy for that position. After all, we need to act with urgency. But what if the action is based on the wrong thinking?

My colleague Jess Daggers wrote an insightful departure blog to an inquiry into the conceptualization and measurement of impact in the context of impact investing and systemic investing.

TL/DR: There's a problem.

medium.com/transformati...

If you're interested in questions of funding systems change (in the context of our sustainability challenges), check out this paper by Penna et al., which is making a great contribution to the literature.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I sort of resent the fact that it takes Taylor Swift to increase the priority level for climate change adaptation. But alas, we take any help we can.

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The New Zealand Government recently consulted on its Emissions Trading Scheme, and also the prospect of a biodiversity credits system.

For anyone interested, here is Toha's submission to both. #greensky #climatesky

This is such an interesting critical reflection on Norway's EV success. It shows how Horizon 2 thinking is insufficient and creating the kind of change we need to cope with sustainability challenges (particularly the social aspects).

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

“DeepMind has developed an AI model that uses decades of historical weather conditions to produce accurate 10-day forecasts in less than a minute.”

When might we see AI being used in climate modelling?

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Aptly sums up one of the main issues in transportation.

I recently debated the virtue of “net zero” for framing climate ambitions with an employee of a major environmental NGO. She didn’t see any issue with it, hadn’t even given it any thought. And she estimated residual emissions at 2-5%.

Naïveté in the climate action community is becoming a problem.

If you're new to the world of systemic investing or just want to catch up with the latest on how it has evolved, here is a short article providing a (working) definition and talking about hallmarks and relevance.

dhofstetter.medium.com/8783be368ca3...