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ESG Mirage … Brutal Honesty … Funding Governance for Systemic Transformation … Organising a free conference … Sunday Thoughts   Edition 15 | September 2022 This Lighthouse Keeper comes to you one day before the start of the 9th International r3.0 Conference,...

Collapse Awareness … 'Pure ESG'​ Standards … UNRISD To The Rescue ... Anti-Woke ESG … Turmoil In #ESGLaLaLand … More Sunday Thoughts Edition 14 | July 2022 A good three months without a Lighthouse Keeper. Various times I thought that now would be the right moment for...

From ESG to ‘True Sustainability’ in Oslo … Do sustainability standard setters have a moral obligation to deliver sustainability? +++ April 2022 | Edition 13 I am back at home after an exciting trip to Oslo, where I keynoted and added opinions to two workshops at the...

From an era of change to a change of era - The role of ESG and Sustainability in times of rapid and brutal disruption Edition 12 | March 2022 (Special Edition) The sh*t hits the fan… The Climate Crisis, Corona, now the #PutinWarAgainstUkraine. Why is it that we...

How on Earth? … #ESGLalaland Obfuscation … Third Way Solutions     Edition 11 | February 2022 Another chock-full Lighthouse Keeper at a day after Europe went into deep shock as Russia declared war on Ukraine! Quite hard to focus attention on anything else, but I'll...

Don’t Look Up … The Big EU Taxonomy Betrayal … ’Fink’enstein’s Letter … Transcending Incrementalism … Remembering Lost Giants     Edition 1 | January 2022 What a month this has been since we celebrated the start of the next solar cycle of Gaia! There was ‘Don’t Look...

Investor Sustainability or Human-Planetary Regeneration - ESG LaLaLand at the crossroads! A Year-End Reflection     Edition 9 | December 2021 As 2021 comes to a close and we look at the precursors of 2022, a big question starts to present itself: as we are standing at...

The Technological, Financial, Political Pipe Dream called COP 26 ... A Retrospect November 2021 | Edition 8 So, COP 26 is over, and while incremental steps are sold as successes ('never before we had' ... blahblahblah, 'so far we didn't have, but now have' ......

FLOP 26 … why Net Zero as used and abused is a sham … and why Glasgow can’t deliver what’s ‘necessary’     November 2021 | Edition 7 | COP 26 is just around the corner, the biggest assembly of governmental delegations, lobbyists, NGOs, activist groups, and not to...

ESG LaLa Land is burning - how to leave and where to go!   As many of you return from vacation and scroll through inboxes and social media, one is amazed of the dynamics of the last months. A lot has to do with the climate and political events of this summer. Massive...