Accepted for a presentation for the fourth year in a row at the International Association for Impact Assessment IAIA 2023 conference in Malaysia.

As an ESIA practitioner which has plenty of overlaps with ESG now a days, resilience is a key area of intellectual interest as the question – what do we do the assessment for? Or the disclosure deluge now occupies mind space as scale, place, spectrum and space impact how we think about what beyond the report apart from tick box measures ?

Hope to present my thoughts in Kuching next year as the previous two or rather three were pandemic pause hit.

Shukran to Hardik Bhai for his steadfast support over the years when no one else gave a chance to do pioneering work on ESIAs.

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In this climate zeitgeist, borrowing a phrase from the pandemic pause, sustainability is essential services and its commercial nomenclature called ‘ESG’.

Survival is essential, and the right quantum of finance available in operationalizing the transition. From the Internal Combustion era to the Electric paradigm, it would need greater implementation intensity of the ideas that are needed now. Access to climate capital is imperative, and fewer reports would help.

Ask the ‘how to do’ question.

#sustainability #finance

Risk taking is a mindset, where to take the risk is a matter of tradeoffs as part of the game we intend to play. You can either take the main elevator, the service elevator, the KMP elevator or the stairs or the emergency routes. Think of which elevator we want to take.