Within #ESG, carbon is not the only metric, but an easily quantifiable one. The fuzzier, messier stuff such as #modernslavery mitigation for responsible supply chains is a harder bet and context matters there. There must be efforts to measure the #materiality though.

There is no fear when there is an ability to restart from scratch and do another Zero to One journey. There is fear when there are others who have the power or the power to abuse. Create your own demand in the ecosystem.

I always enjoyed building stuff whether it was the social innovation program at AIESEC during my engineering masters at NUS or winning business, forging partnerships for multiple consultancies and think tank research projects in the Gulf & Southeast Asia. I prefer having an impact and mission led focus.

Revenue generation and rain making is under rated and hard and there is no template for it.

Let’s normalize the effort, as the outcome is not always in our hands. Work hardest as the needle is moved when personal capabilities are stretched.

The trouble with templates is that they are abstractions, and not fit for purpose. The key is to adapt and adopt the elements that make sense, as the scale, applicability and context differ.

The recent critique of #ESG in the current circumstances of armed conflict and consequent spiraling of oil prices leading to inflation and impact on the wallet is not now as secondary concerns such as climate might not be clear and present danger for many countries and communities. Climate Change is a scalar matter with incredible contextual specificity. Companies and communities in the direct line of the just transition narrative will be first movers.

ESG is the riskfication of the sustainable development paradigm which has been around since Rio- that is three decades back. ESG is an instrument towards a just transition, a framework which works as a pragmatic ethics filter. The error is in the over expectation of a tool, rather than embedding it in popular culture and making it nonnegotiable. #climatechange#sustainabledevelopment#culture#oil#ethics

#ESG attempts to be global by staying away from politics, however there are inherent epistemic anchors in Eurocentric logics, many of them are generative frames in social and ecological justice. The local texture needs to be considered too.

I just experienced an ‘infrastructural turn’ with my broadband provider going off the grid for 24 hours in Navi Mumbai and I realize the value of ‘sociotechnical resilience’ (Amir & Kant 2018) in the WFH era. It was productive as i wrote two thousand words for work.

Just Transition is the conceptual cartilage between carbon and community. Transitions are an imaginary which need to be populated with either soulless tech talk or with an ethic of social justice where communities are front and center of the dialogue where worker voices and aspirations find a place in the strategy decks of consulting firms.

Old photos are the fragments of lives lived within one life. Facebook memories can evoke warm feelings and reminders of past versions of the self. Hard copy photos are the best.