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Remedies for a bloated ESG world
"Ignored, ridiculed, embraced, sanctified, attacked. If you’ve been living it for long enough, it’s hard not to see the grim humour in...
Niall O'Shea
Mar 19, 20241 min read
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Disaster Risk Reduction and the Financial System
Discern Sustainability was commissioned by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UN DRR) to write a report on the...
Niall O'Shea
Apr 4, 20231 min read
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Novel Antibiotics: fixing incentives
Unlike tackling climate change, creating new antibiotics ought to be relatively solvable-yet the years tick by, antimicrobial resistance...
Niall O'Shea
Sep 15, 20221 min read
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Vertical Farming, Leadership and ESG credentials
Podcast on vertical farming, including capital markets and ESG perspective from Discern Sustainability.
Niall O'Shea
Aug 5, 20221 min read
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Responsible Company: are the SDGs fit for purpose?
Responsible Company is the new venture from the journal of record for the Responsible Investment and ESG world,...
Niall O'Shea
Jan 21, 20211 min read
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Niall O'Shea
Mar 9, 20200 min read
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Plastic pollution: synthetic solutions
In the latest Viewfinder, Director Ana Carloto O’Shea takes stock of solutions for plastic pollution: and finds them wanting. Key...
Niall O'Shea
Jan 7, 20201 min read
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How to stay happy and effective in SRI.
You are one of the luckiest people around, professionally. You get to study, write and talk about the most important issues of our time,...
Niall O'Shea
Dec 19, 20191 min read
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Life will be different: synthetic biology
Imagine a vat of strange organisms, sovereign entities, parallel but never touching, except under controlled conditions...
Niall O'Shea
Oct 6, 20190 min read
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All Aboard? What to ask oil and gas companies about LNG
There is a faithful principle to keep handy when assessing which fuel source is more emissions-intensive than another...
Niall O'Shea
Jul 2, 20191 min read
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About those Sustainable Development Goals Funds...
“Here is something easy to understand but challenging to accomplish: an integrity heuristic to perform before you launch or buy a SDG...
Niall O'Shea
Apr 28, 20191 min read
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Responsible Investment: the long-term trend that no investor can ignore
I recently wrote a helicopter tour for the premier trade mag Responsible Investor about the rapid evolution and diversification of...
Niall O'Shea
May 6, 20181 min read
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Sustainable Development Goals: how can companies & investors contribute?
Acre, the largest recruiter specialising in sustainability, asked me and Kate Martin Bruintjes to contribute insights in this...
Niall O'Shea
May 6, 20181 min read
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In conversation with KKR's General David Petraeus on energy and ESG.
Gen. David Petraeus, one of the US's most respected military leaders on both sides of the isle and former head of the C.I.A. chairs...
Niall O'Shea
Apr 5, 20181 min read
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