Stephen Murphy

Perhaps one of the most incisive questions raised at a fashion event during Climate Week NYC was: why? Why isn’t the industry moving faster—or working harder—to stave off what is almost certain supply chain collapse in the face of the climate catastrophe? Why, for all its talk about collaboration, has meaningful action struggled to coalesce? Why is the wealth that’s concentrated in the office suites of the global North failing to reach the production floors of the global South, where it can have the greatest impact? The reason is simple, if cynical. Big brands that rise and fall on the strength of their quarterly returns rarely have a long-term strategic mindset, particularly if they’re being rattled—as they are now—by geopolitical and economic tremors. Neither do investments that drive efficiency or reduce emissions in factories they don’t actually own, but rather share with rival businesses, immediately translate into increased shareholder value. At the same time, up to 99 percent of a clothing purveyor’s carbon footprint can lie in its supply chain. To put it another way, there are only so many lightbulbs a company can swap out in its distribution centers before it has to grapple with the bulk of its emissions outside its own operations, particularly in the material processing phase that accounts for 55 percent of Scope 3’s greenhouse-gas pie. “The trick is to find a way to bridge the long term with the immediate and short term,” Ulrika Leverenz, head of green investment at H&M Group, said at a panel with The Fashion Pact on Thursday. “At H&M Group, we link the financial value to the value impact. And that could be cost per ton or how much this particular project will benefit the total targets. You could also frame it as risk minimization. We are only as resilient as our supply chain. What we need to look into is, how much are we willing to pay today to avoid that risk for tomorrow?” Read more: https://lnkd.in/eVP9Nb3u

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Is greenhushing the new normal? 🤫 Based on our data, at least in the carbon markets its return might have been temporary: The spike in private carbon retirements we saw around the US election in Q3/Q4 last year is declining again to 2023 levels. Still, companies are overall communicating way less around sustainability while they continue with investments undeterred by the public debate. This will become a risk to accountability and quick adoption of best practices if it continues for longer. Tasmin Lockwood wrote a great piece around the big greenhushing gamble. Thanks for the great conversation 🙏🏼 https://lnkd.in/ePFdECre

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𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀. 🌍 We just took another step toward making Nature investible. Rebalance Earth has partnered with Restore, led by Benedict Macdonald, one of the UK’s leading nature restorers. Together, we’re unlocking the flow of institutional capital into Nature across the British Isles, enabling Restore to expand England’s largest investible natural capital portfolio of restoration sites. Every restored hectare brings us closer to a future where rivers run clean, wetlands store water, and wildlife returns. Because restoring Nature isn’t charity, it’s critical infrastructure. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻. 🎥 Watch Anne Reaney (Rebalance Earth) and Gil Martin (Restore) share what this partnership means for landowners, investors, and Nature itself. #Nature #Investment #GreenFinance #ESG #NatureRestoration #Rewilding #ImpactInvesting

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Big thanks to GESHER for a comprehensive interview highlighting the current Carbon Removal landscape and the vision for large-scale carbon management that we’re pursuing at Carbon Removal Partners (#CRP). Article here (Japanese): https://lnkd.in/d3KiFjad “A cornerstone of CRP’s strategy is what we call compliance-grade carbon removal. This means prioritizing pathways capable of meeting the standards required for future regulatory carbon markets, initially in jurisdictions like Japan, the EU, and the UK. To qualify, technologies must be scalable, measurable, and capable of delivering permanent results—storing carbon for centuries, if not millennia. […] From the sheer scale—and the two topics correlate 1 on 1—the business opportunity is comparable to when oil was discovered for the first time and then turned into a global commodity.” Su Mon Thant Koji Arie @Christoffer Larsson #carboneconomy #GXETS #EUETS #CDR

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