We’re back with our monthly roundup of ESG content highlights – articles we’re reading, podcasts we’re enjoying, useful videos and more.
Climate change
The Climate Book – Greta Thunberg
Experts around the world including geophysicists, mathematicians, oceanographers and economists have been developing a deep understanding of the crises we face. Greta Thunberg has created The Climate Book in partnership with over one hundred of these experts, to equip us all with this knowledge. Alongside them, Greta shares her own stories of learning, demonstrating, and uncovering greenwashing around the world, and revealing the extent to which we have been kept in the dark.
COP27: What you need to know about this year’s big UN Climate Conference
The next big climate conference kicks off in Sharm el-Sheikh in early November. Get clued up on COP27 with this handy overview from the United Nations.
COP27: was this the year climate progress unravelled?
Rising energy prices and heightened geopolitical tension – has the war in Ukraine unravelled climate progress, and can COP27 re-focus global attention?
The Fight to Save Ecuador’s Sacred River
An excellent article that shines a spotlight on the human experience of the green transition – asking important questions about who will benefit from renewables, and whose livelihoods may suffer.
Lecture series: net zero
Professor Myles Allen, Director of Oxford Net Zero and professor of Geosystem Science at the University of Oxford, will deliver a series of lectures on net zero. The series began in October and will run to May 2023. Topics include why net zero and how the world agreed on net zero, as well as sessions on ocean and atmospheric physics – and more.
Environmental issues
Regenesis – George Monbiot
Drawing on astonishing advances in soil ecology, Monbiot reveals how new discoveries about the world beneath our feet could allow us to grow more food with less farming, and transform our relationship with the living planet.
Richard Mosse — Broken Spectre
This immersive film takes visitors deep into the heart of the Brazilian Amazon to portray the challenges faced in the rainforest – illegal logging, mining, fires, cattle ranching and the undermining of Indigenous peoples’ rights. The experience is running in London until 4th December and not one to be missed!
Javier Blas and Jack Farchy – The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
An insightful read, written like a thriller, about the history and power behind commodity trading. The book paints a picture of immense power and lack of transparency – and how much money and global influence is held by a tiny group.
Fast fashion
Inside the Shein Machine: UNTOLD
The world of fashion – in particular fast fashion – is under increasing scrutiny due to its impact on people and the planet. Chinese fast fashion giant Shein’s success story is unrivalled, but at what cost? Iman Amrani investigates the famously secretive business, as hidden cameras go inside factories for the first time.
