The actual work of sustainability or ESG on the ground is different to what is read in textbooks or white papers. An understanding of culture and power is critical to what gets done and what gets excluded. An ethnography of sustainability under works is needed.

A lot of folks often do not realize that I have made a living being an experienced environmental engineer, air quality modeler and as an ESIA Practitioner. I would like to scale up my engineering credentials in the months ahead in the climate risk domain.

The basics of engineering are imperative in the climate transition era.

As the new IPCC Synthesis Report states that time is finite for climate change mitigation, we need to ramp up access to transition finance, in which ESG as a lens has a way to funnel and structure the funds to the right targets and in a responsible way.

ESG is seen as an aggressive risk metric for factoring into DCF on a balance sheet, but when we look ahead as regeneration and resilience it transforms into a paradigm fit for net zero.

When i look across the Arabian Sea from Juhu Beach or the Gateway of India in Bombay, I see the shores of the Sharqiyah and the Batinah Coast, of a Bayt lost, alive in the memories of wet feet in Sur or Shatti Al Qurum, as water splashes the feet in Silver Beach, Juhu.

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.