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Sustainable Finance: Newspeak
This article explores one of several issues potentially causing difficulties within the area known as “sustainable finance”. It focuses on the use of language and raises questions around the particular style of phrasing prevalent throughout the emerging taxonomies, sustainability reports, financial products and other materials which comprise the sustainable finance market. After briefly describing examples of these issues, this article advocates returning to language and grammar which is plain and simple.
22 NOV 2025Sustainable finance: perspectives on some of the difficult questions
This article explores some of the current thinking behind “sustainable finance”. After briefly describing what is involved and offering up some perspectives, it raises questions and sets out modest proposals in reply. Several different questions are raised but the common theme explored is – whether or not sustainable finance as currently envisaged risks making the situation any worse than it already is.
1 JUL 2023
