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Cutting carbon emissions must be the first priority for serious climate action. But the other side of the net zero ledger — carbon dioxide removal — needs a serious strategy too, I argue in the latest FT Moral Money newsletter. ft.com/content/b08940…

For investors in companies like Shein and Inditex, perhaps the biggest risk of all is that fast fashion simply stops being fashionable. Today's FT Moral Money newsletter: ft.com/content/d07d68…

Leaders in business and finance are now grappling with a question that probably wouldn't have occurred to most of them until recently: what does a responsible approach to AI look like? Sarah Murray's latest excellent report for the FT Moral Money Forum: ft.com/content/522492…

In today's FT Moral Money newsletter I looked at new analysis from ShareAction of UK bank Barclays Bank' climate policy, which highlights how the International Energy Agency's recent softening of language around fossil fuel investment could have serious financial implications. ft.com/content/007958…

In today's FT Moral Money newsletter, I explained what's behind the extraordinary staff revolt inside the highly influential climate body SBTi. ft.com/content/841a7e…

For today's FT Moral Money newsletter, I spoke to Nobel-winning economist Esther Duflo about her new proposal to use tax rises on corporate profits and billionaires' wealth to fund climate adaptation and disaster response in developing nations. ft.com/content/2fa578…

Good Simon Mundy interview with Esther Duflo on the "moral debt" owed by the rich world to the poor ft.com/content/2fa578…

Esther Duflo: "$500bn a year. That’s the mortality damage that rich countries impose on poor countries. That’s what I call a moral debt. This is not what it would cost to adapt; this is not what it would cost to mitigate. This is what we owe. How are we going to find this money?"

Esther Duflo: Rich world owes $500bn in ‘moral debt’ to poor countries for climate harm - and targeted taxes on companies & the ultra rich could fix this. "It’s really necessary. And it’s reasonable" she says in this interview with Simon Mundy ft.com/content/2fa578… via @ft

In today's FT Moral Money newsletter: - Lee Harris on the health-related shareholder votes today at Coca-Cola and PepsiCo - I reveal a new letter of complaint from advisors to the SBTi after its board's controversial statement on carbon offsetting ft.com/content/f3e6db…

In today's FT Moral Money newsletter, I unpack the debate around "sustainable bitcoin". Is this concept as silly as you might think? ft.com/content/17df05…

Is the US inching towards imposing carbon border tariffs? This area of policy is "one of the few places where there’s bipartisan conversation", White House climate point man John Podesta told me and Attracta Mooney . Today's FT Moral Money newsletter: ft.com/content/633dad…

The UK's incoming government has made low-carbon development an organising principle. How will it try to meet its ambitious clean energy targets, and what opportunities will this create for investors? Today's FT Moral Money newsletter: ft.com/content/9f6c1d…

The ugly, deadly saga over The Boeing Company's 737 Max is a reminder that even the hardest-nosed financial investors ignore issues of social responsibility at their peril. Today's FT Moral Money newsletter: ft.com/content/b89ef6…

I enjoyed taking part in this new Financial Times film, which asks who killed the ESG party — and whether we may now be moving into a more serious, substantive phase of the drive towards cleaner, fairer capitalism. youtube.com/watch?v=hMW_pT…

Clean tech start-ups are facing funding constraints — especially around the stage where they need to build their first full-scale plant. But investors and government institutions are starting to rise to the challenge. Today's FT Moral Money newsletter: ft.com/content/83aada…

Want to have your voice heard in an FT podcast? FT Moral Money is teaming up with the Behind the Money podcast for an episode addressing questions about what “responsible” business and finance really looks like. Submit a question via voice note here: telbee.io/channel/qefnek…

Asset retirement obligations are a huge financial liability hanging over US oil and gas companies — on which they are failing to provide proper transparency in their public accounts, according to a group of international investors. ft.com/content/11a1dd…

Started reading #RaceForTomorrow by Simon Mundy vast in its scope, and coverage of global climate change issues, written after a 2-year journey through six continents. Give it a read.