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The ‘Public Comment Sham’ of (Sustainability) Reporting Standard Setters ... Consultancy Caricatures ... 2 Years Corona Chronicles ... Sunday Thoughts Edition 19 | May 2023 Welcome back to another edition of the Lighthouse Keeper. At r3.0 we are busy bees, very...

SVB & Climate Breakdown – seeing the connection … #ESGLalLaland in turmoil … a ‘GRI is dead’ epilogue … Sunday Thoughts Edition 18 | March 2023 There are two news topics that made up most of the newspaper headlines in the last 2 weeks: the #SVB bankruptcy (plus...

Goodbye to the GRI I once knew … UNSDPI Training … Collapsology … r3.0 2023 Conference ...Sunday Thoughts   Edition 17 | February 2023 The Lighthouse Keeper is back, and it took a while. First, I took break from all the whirlwind in #ESGLaLaLand, and the huge...

Authentic Sustainability Reporting is here … ‘Pure ESG’ further ridicules itself … Collapse is not Apocalypse … Sunday Thoughts   Edition 16 | November 2022 I started the writing of this new Lighthouse Keeper on the day of the release of the UNRISD SDPI...

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...