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Notes on ESG & sustainability reporting, climate policy and human migration, and data & reporting practice.
What a Political Scientist Sees in a Carbon Accounting Standard
I trained to read treaties and institutions, not emission factors. That background turns out to be unexpectedly useful for understanding why reporting standards look the way they do.
Who Audits the Raters: The EU Just Put ESG Scores Under Supervision
From 2 July 2026, ESG rating providers operating in the EU need authorisation from ESMA. The scores that have moved capital for years are finally being asked the question they asked everyone else.
From Guesswork To Audit Trails: Why ESG Reporting Struggled For So Long
ESG reporting struggled for years, not because the numbers were impossible to calculate, but because organizations relied too heavily on guesswork and lacked the audit trails to trace the data back to its source.
Why an ESG and sustainability professional took an online financial management course
I didn't train as a financier — my degree was in political science. But the deeper I went into sustainability, the more I needed the language of the balance sheet. So I took an online course to brush up on it.
The carbon clean-up: why reaching 'zero' may not be enough
Net zero has been the corporate climate gold standard, but it may be a milestone, not the finish line. A look at carbon removal, the technologies behind it, and how businesses are starting to build it into strategy.
The EU AI Act and ESG: Two Rulebooks That are Quietly Converging
The EU AI Act looks like a tech regulation, and ESG looks like a sustainability one, but they meet at the same place: governance, transparency, and the ability to prove how a number or a decision was made.
AI in ESG reporting: assistant, not author
Where AI genuinely speeds up sustainability reporting — and where it quietly creates risk. A practical rule: AI can touch the inputs, but a human owns the output.
Why ESG controlling lives and dies on data quality
Regulations like CSRD raise the bar, but the real battle is reconciliation, validation, and audit-ready trails — a view from inside a 90-country reporting cycle.