Cataloging, critiquing, analyzing, intellectualizing is only part of the climate action story. Building solutions rather than sermons will enable ripple effects to bring the needed interventions for adaptation.

In the era of ESG, DEI and Responsible Capitalism, Women’s Day is each day.

We celebrate the moment to normalize the elation to embed in the quotidian.

Happy Women’s Day!

There is an antidote to competence greenwashing coined by Dr Kim, which is deep ESG expertise built over 15 years in my case in eleven countries. Certifications are great for signaling but they might not be the skill levels needed on the job. Deep skills are developed over the years.

If one perceives ESG as reporting towards climate compliance, one is clearly missing the woods for the trees as sustainability is about survival at the planetary scale, however at the human scale it is dignity of work that drives any transformation, digital or net zero. Without people as key actors in a process which is participatory rather than performative, no climate transition dialogue can achieve its stated outcomes. ESG at the entry level is compliance, as regulatory hygiene but higher up on the value curve it can serve as a lens to solve wicked problems for the transition’s era.

Software can capture data, and churn out a report, but culture will determine enterprise value. ESG is about enterprise value. The cacophony regarding ESG is generative, as it mainstreams ESG as business and reporting frameworks give guidance on how to embark on the journey. We are dealing with businesses and sometimes sustainability professionals forget that sustainability is not the only element on the C Suite agenda, it is merely one of them.

Mumbai has political iconography at every traffic signal and memorials are place making on the power cartography of this great Indian Ocean City. Ambedkarite parties occupy a lot of attention real estate on hoardings although insignificant on the electoral map. There are more fractions of the Republican Party of India than there are Communist Party segments splintered across the country. BSP is a subaltern political force which has lost significant steam in the Saffron Raj. The strange data point here is that the RPI (A) wins seats in Nagaland rather than Nanded, as Mr. Athavle, the federal social justice minister plays a symbolic role in state politics here in Mumbai.

Here is a memorial to the great shaper of Maharashtra and Mumbai’s politics past, present and future.

Jai Maharashtra.