Morningstar's report on proxy voting of US and European equity managers on ESG topics | Morgan Stanley looks "European" | Exxon sues its shareholders | The 35:1 ratio of nature-negative to -positive flows

COP's "phase down" of fossil fuels | Surpassing 1.5 degrees by 2030 | Continued mainstreaming of impact investing | Impact strategies and real assets | Impact might lower return...and risk too

Pessimism ahead of COP in Dubai | Loss and damage ahead of schedule | Climate tech funding plummets | Small shares of funding to big emissions sources | The ROI of pro-climate government spending | CalPERS commits $100bn

A proliferation of climate frameworks is an opportunity for AI to harmonize analysis | Reporting for carbon vs. accounting for it | Is governance taken for granted?

Using AI to assess climate commitments | Ecosystem services | The future of European tourism is being reassessed, in winter and summer | The Keeling curve hits 424 ppm

EV adoption is possible with reliable chargers | Mississippi's holistic approach to improving reading performance | Proxy season is ugly for climate | Biodiversity credits are evolving

A "governance gap" exists between the Fortune 500 and smaller companies, a Yale Law Journal article finds | Retention and promotion - a challenge for DEI, BlackRock finds | Microsoft tries to reduce and emissions and grow at the same time

At CERAWeek, the commitment to the energy transition seemed to be losing, rather than gathering, strength | Oil and gas in Alaska | IRA's bold vision vs regulation and labor constraints | SVB's failure | Proxy season preview

Federal action leads with IRA but cities and states working to do more | Environmental justice stymied by ownership requirements for EV school bus transitions | PE has a retention/promotion problem not a pipeline problem

Opinions vary on the role of private capital in the supply of water. With appropriate guardrails, opportunities for impact, and solid returns, exist.

An update to the 2015 meta-study of 2000 earlier articles by NYU Stern | Rockefeller looks at Leaders and Improvers | London Business School looks at ESG disclosure in private equity | Investment Metrics on diverse teams, and Fidelity on the investment results of their retail clients, by gender

A Carbon Tracker chart to show….world is off track for mitigation targets | Progress in power generation, among other places, means 4 degrees by 2100 could be a maximum | Public complacency is still a risk - as public concern may have peaked | The case for climate reparations