Sustainability disclosures reflect the new social contract between companies and society that includes carbon and community. Survival as a species is a new business normal. As society evolves, capitalism evolves as well. #sustainability

The Energy Transition is a Human Transition, and unless communities are engaged and even better cared for all technocratic thinking will fall short. There will be variegated geographies of decarbonization, and the context will be key to unlocking impact.

All plans look good in a report, the implementation is where the true transition tale will span out.

#energytransition

As a dyed in the wool ESG/ESIA (with a lens on S) practitioner I look forward to the convergences between the environmental planning mechanisms and the deluge of disclosure standards that have the potency to overwhelm. ESIA and ESDDs are disclosures within ESG risk frameworks when they are a part of disclosures on MFI websites as a part of transaction transparency.

The old and the emerging need to speak to each other, as good data is actionable data at asset level aggregated to the scale of the global organization.

Impact in Climate Innovation requires a bunch of things- a problem to solve deeply and at scale – an understanding of science, finance, law, and culture. The problem is often interdisciplinary scholars and bridge builders operate from a white space with poor institutional backing.

Lovely to hear Turkish in two spice jet flights in a row this week.

The aircraft cabin is a theatre of emotions in a global workspace of airport workers.

Corendon Airlines from Turkey which has taken over Indian carrier spice jet has made the airline as Turkish as possible with a lineup of Turkish cabin crew filling the cabin with melodious notes as they are not able to understand what the passenger is speaking nor do the patrons understand English refracted through an Ottoman palette.

M&As are cultural exchanges and a couple of flights indicate a few months of synergies to be unlocked. A few of the seniors of the cabin crew it seems were having a second career in India and I am glad that we are not the ones that seek a global life.

The airline cabin was a ‘contact zone’ of cultures with the cabin crew struggling with Hindi announcements and promptly switching to the recorded version, an early form of emotionally void automation in the air.

The amount of care the cabin crew had to do with price sensitive patrons is exemplary as the language gap was significant, though they were polished as ever.

#aeromobilities

The deluge of sustainability and climate disclosure standards is deeply encouraging and shows an interest in exponential ways previously inexperienced. However, the cacophony might lead to chaos, and mandate lawyers to re-interpret the discourse.

The line between academic research grants, think tanks and consultants is blurred as the playbook seems congruent. I hope impact is centered in the knowledge that is produced rather than h-index temple runs.

The way a city is felt and experienced is rather ‘close’ in an auto or kaali peeli as the sounds and the senses are saturated. Mumbai has a constant hum about people being on the move. The conversations in Bhojpuri that the mobility sector professionals speak while driving make for an interesting peek into the migrant city which is the maximum city.

There are many Mumbai’s within the Maximum City. It feels like a functioning patchwork that is precarious yet incredibly motile.

In the green workspace (ESG/Sustainability/Clean Tech/Climate Tech/EHS/Safeguards), we are the tech sector in the early 1990s, on the cusp of becoming quotidian as culture.

Knowledge work is a mainstream occupation globally, however, many of the skills and the expectations are not well defined either at school or the workplace. The work consists of research and writing, business development, coding or evaluation which is subjective.