Dan Saccardi

This podcast episode covers:

* What is the importance of transparency in sustainability?

* What are the expectations of key stakeholders - like investors, consumers, and employees - around transparency in Sustainability?

* Is there guidance and rules around sharing sustainability information and performance?

* What level of transparency exists in sustainability information?

* What are Good (and Not so Good) examples of Transparency in Sustainability?

This report offers detailed recommendations to guide the banking industry in fully measuring, analyzing, and acting against threats posed by the physical risks of climate change. It sets out a practical roadmap to help banks conduct risk assessments and incorporate climate risks into their day-to-day decision-making.

In assessing climate risks, many banks reason that transition risk may be less of a threat because most of their loans are short term. This analysis finds that banks must look beyond the individual loan to the long-term and multi-faceted relationship with the client. When that lens is applied, the need for banks to address climate risk in their portfolios becomes much more urgent.

This article makes the case for financial regulators, and the banks that they regulate, to assess, disclose, and mitigate climate change risk associated with their lending.

This report investigates banks’ climate-related financial risks and their exposure to a disorderly transition. Based on the finding that a majority of bank lending is in climate-exposed sectors, the report also lays out a blueprint for bank action with key recommendations for how banks can discuss their climate risk exposure and the mitigation strategies they can use to address this risk exposure and broader climate-related societal impact.

My interview with Richard Steinberg, CEO BMW’s DriveNow. Steinberg shares his perspective about disruptive innovation, BMW’s venture capital fund, and what it will mean to be “the leading provider of premium mobility services” to a customer base whose transportation needs are rapidly evolving.

My interview with John Woolard, former BrightSource President and CEO. Woolard shares his insights about the future of energy storage, the impact of cheap natural gas, the NIMBY challenges associated with developing new projects, and the nexus between energy and water.

The U.S. military is the world’s largest industrial consumer of oil, so a major shift in its energy policies would have an impact not only on the amount of oil consumed today but also on technologies that could begin to replace fossil fuels tomorrow.

The U.S. natural gas resource is incredibly valuable to our national security, economic development, and obligation to curb greenhouse gas emissions. It is therefore imperative that we find practical common ground between the natural gas industry and concerned stakeholders.

Doing so will build the trust and constructive dialogue needed to successfully navigate our way through current challenges and proactively address future hurdles that will doubtlessly arise as this method of natural… Show more

The U.S. natural gas resource is incredibly valuable to our national security, economic development, and obligation to curb greenhouse gas emissions. It is therefore imperative that we find practical common ground between the natural gas industry and concerned stakeholders.

Doing so will build the trust and constructive dialogue needed to successfully navigate our way through current challenges and proactively address future hurdles that will doubtlessly arise as this method of natural gas development further matures. Show less

We absolutely do need big, bold innovations that can address head-on the crux of our energy challenges. But we also must look for the big ideas whose small-scale provide those in the greatest need with viable livelihoods while creating incentives to preserve the most threatened habitats in the world. Enormous is essential but boutique is beautiful.

Now is the time for industry leadership to fill a void left by understaffed state and federal regulators who continue to play hot potato with their oversight responsibilities.

Proactive leadership from one of the major oil and gas players, if done well, could create a benchmark that the others, including the disparate group of smaller players up and down the fracking value chain can, and even must, follow. And in so doing, such a leader would elevate itself as a pioneering first mover.

Though a powerful tool, we cannot rely on prizes to solve all our problems, but must instead create the supporting foundation, led by science-based policy, to enable the solutions to societal challenges.

this study’s principal objectives are to assess conservation trust funds’ financial performance, to establish a benchmark against which the funds can evaluate their returns, and to share this information publicly in order to foster best practices.

The aim is to equip funds that participate in this groundbreaking effort with the right tools based on peer practices and to optimize their investment performance, thereby enhancing the resources available to best run, manage, and sustain vital… Show more

this study’s principal objectives are to assess conservation trust funds’ financial performance, to establish a benchmark against which the funds can evaluate their returns, and to share this information publicly in order to foster best practices.

The aim is to equip funds that participate in this groundbreaking effort with the right tools based on peer practices and to optimize their investment performance, thereby enhancing the resources available to best run, manage, and sustain vital conservation projects around the globe. Show less

This report focuses the role that biofuels can play in America's energy future. It demonstrates how fuel efficiency and smart growth can make the sustainable contribution of biofuels much more significant.

If we want to produce an alternative to oil that is truly good for the whole country, we must make fair treatment of farmers and the environment as central to our policies as producing cost-effective biofuels. A collaborative effort between these two communities is crucial to not only… Show more

This report focuses the role that biofuels can play in America's energy future. It demonstrates how fuel efficiency and smart growth can make the sustainable contribution of biofuels much more significant.

If we want to produce an alternative to oil that is truly good for the whole country, we must make fair treatment of farmers and the environment as central to our policies as producing cost-effective biofuels. A collaborative effort between these two communities is crucial to not only enacting these policies but capturing their full benefits. Show less