ADAPTED FROM RESEARCH BY MATT WATSON, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD TL;DR: The Illusion of ESG Target-Setting and the Reality of Human Practice Sustainability in turbulent times The Scene Looks Good From Up Here On a grey March morning in 2017, roughly 350 researchers, policymakers, and sustainability advisers gathered in a repurposed building just across the Thames from
ADAPTED FROM RESEARCH BY MATT WATSON, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD TL;DR: The Compliance Trap and Why Universal ESG Reporting Fails The Confidence Trap: When Reporting Becomes the Product ESG reporting is nearly universal, ESG regulation has exploded, and ESG investment has become mainstream orthodoxy. Yet the gap between disclosure and demonstrable impact grows wider by the year.
ADAPTED FROM RESEARCH BY MATT WATSON, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD The urban nexus: infrastructures, politics and spatialities Once upon a time, the world’s most powerful institutions — investment funds managing trillions, multinational corporations with sustainability pledges stretching across continents, and governments crafting net-zero legislation — believed that the path to a more sustainable future ran through better