Niall O'Shea
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...
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Niall O'Shea
- Apr 4, 2023
- 1 min
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...
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Niall O'Shea
- Sep 15, 2022
- 1 min
Novel Antibiotics: fixing incentives
Unlike tackling climate change, creating new antibiotics ought to be relatively solvable-yet the years tick by, antimicrobial resistance...
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Niall O'Shea
- Aug 5, 2022
- 1 min
Vertical Farming, Leadership and ESG credentials
Podcast on vertical farming, including capital markets and ESG perspective from Discern Sustainability.
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Niall O'Shea
- Jan 21, 2021
- 1 min
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,...
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Niall O'Shea
- Jan 7, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Niall O'Shea
- Dec 19, 2019
- 1 min
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,...
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Niall O'Shea
- Oct 6, 2019
- 0 min
Life will be different: synthetic biology
Imagine a vat of strange organisms, sovereign entities, parallel but never touching, except under controlled conditions...
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Niall O'Shea
- Jul 2, 2019
- 1 min
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...
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Niall O'Shea
- Apr 28, 2019
- 1 min
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...
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Niall O'Shea
- May 6, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Niall O'Shea
- May 6, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Niall O'Shea
- Apr 5, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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