Where Can Latin America Find Money For Their Affordable Housing?
By Steven Hyland, Ph.D., Ted Kronmiller, Gabriel Yin, and Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, FRM Responsible Alpha March 7, 2023 After considering the...
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Nick Hopmann
- Feb 24
Replicable Analysis And Algorithms – Future Truth ESG By Fighting Greenwashing
Corporations, investors, regulators, and the public want to know if ESG commitments institutions make are truthful – not greenwashed....
Ted Kronmiller
- Jan 31
Davos Update – Polycrisis And Planetary Boundaries Meet The Anthropocene While ESG Prevails
The news from Davos this past week was diverse and enlightening, yet more of the same. While some understandably criticized the use of...
Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, FRM
- Oct 5, 2022
Themes After NYC Climate Week: The Times They Are A-Changin'
We wanted to share our impressions after many of us convened in NYC during Climate Week September 19-23. Climate Week is the annual...
Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, FRM
- Sep 28, 2022
Plastics Abroad: Where Do Plastics Come From in the EU?
In a continuation from our dashboard earlier this month on US plastics, this week we analyze where and who makes plastics resins in the...
Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, FRM
- Sep 6, 2022
See the U.S. Plastics Supply Chain
The U.S. Plastics Supply Chain shows how plastics are made in the U.S. Click on Responsible Alpha's dashboard and see where and who...
Xiangyu Shen
- Aug 24, 2022
GHG Emissions by Congressional District
The U.S. economy has a high level of regional specialization and economic complexity. This is clear when assessing direct greenhouse gas...
Steven Hyland, Jr., Ph.D.
- Aug 15, 2022
Celebrate Legislation Action, Come On!
Today, President Biden will officially sign the Inflation Reduction Act and enable the country to transition towards a low-carbon,...
Xiangyu Shen
- Aug 9, 2022
Toxic Chemicals by Congressional Districts
Where these toxic chemicals are released measured by Congressional district are described in Responsible Alpha's latest dashboard Toxic...
Steven Hyland, Jr., Ph.D.
- Aug 2, 2022
The Time Has Come...To Pay Our Fair Share
Inside the Inflation Reduction Act proposed last week by Senators Manchin and Schumer is a hidden return to normal, a call to pay our...
Xiangyu Shen
- Jul 13, 2022
US States & Renewable Energy Investments
The U.S. reduced its CO2 emissions 7.63 percent between 2010 and 2019. This reduction hides regional variations that corporate...
Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, FRM
- Jul 8, 2022
On the Street …The Heat Is On
This year and going forward, companies will face increasing pressure to begin their active transition to a low-carbon, sustainable, and...
Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, FRM
- Jun 7, 2022
Has the European plastics industry’s current operations model become a riskier investment
According to the latest report published by the financial thinktank Planet Tracker and co-authored by Gabriel Thoumi, CEO of Responsible...
Steven Hyland, Jr., Ph.D.
- May 26, 2022
Challenges and opportunities in plastics production and consumption
The production and use of plastics is a first-order problem for societies worldwide. The ubiquity of plastic in our daily lives often...
Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, FRM
- Apr 8, 2022
Russia’s War on Ukraine: A Climate Risk and IPCC Code Red
While Russia’s war on Ukraine demonstrates that climate and energy security policies are aligned, possibly spurring global economies to...
Zach Marmet
- Mar 25, 2022
Natural Asset Companies: Financial Product Innovation Supporting Sustainable Development
“There haven’t historically been mechanisms to encourage the capital formation necessary to preserve and restore the natural assets that...
Steven Hyland, Jr., Ph.D.
- Mar 6, 2022
Do Wealthy Companies Boycott Russia or Boycott ESG?
Since the Russian government’s war of choice began over ten days ago, many companies have evacuated personnel and ceased operations in...
Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, FRM
- Mar 3, 2022
Plastics Get A Win: Treaty Moves Forward Highlighting Need for Standard Corporate Disclosure
Photo: UNEP / 02 Mar 2022. With society awash with hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic, 175 nations yesterday agreed to...
Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, FRM
- Mar 3, 2022
Since Crimea Invasion, Investment Banks Raised $196 Billion for Russian Companies: ESG Policies?
Since 2014, eight years after when the Russian government seized Ukrainian sovereign territory in Crimea, over $196 billion dollars was...
Steven Hyland, Jr., Ph.D.
- Mar 2, 2022
Profits Over Policy: Raiffeisen Bank Stays in Russia, Violation of Its Own Human Rights Policy?
As the Russian government’s war of choice is close to one week old, the Austrian headquartered Raiffeisen Bank’s $30 billion exposure to...
Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, FRM
- Mar 1, 2022
One Billion Russian Shares Traded Feb 28 Four Days After Russia Began War: What is it good for?
Przemysl, Poland. 26th Feb, 2022. Refugees from Ukraine, after crossing the border from Shehyni in Ukraine to Medyka in Poland. Credit:...
Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, FRM
- Feb 28, 2022
ESG Investors' Billions Choose Silence: Russia’s War of Choice Faces ESGs Moment of Truth
Like you, I woke yesterday morning facing the shock of the silence of war. Like you, I knew war was coming – the Russian government’s...
Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, FRM
- Feb 25, 2022
Top U.S. and UK Investors Exposure to Russia’s War of Choice Against Ukraine: Lessons from Socrates
When Socrates faced his executioners in 399 B.C., he declared to his fellow Athenians that a man “ought to only consider whether in doing...
Steven Hyland, Jr., Ph.D.
- Feb 23, 2022
Glencore's Coal Mine Risks the Company's, Colombia's and Investors' Emissions Commitments
Glencore's coal mining operations in Colombia threaten its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 15% by 2026. As a result,...
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