By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights In the absence of any progress on President Biden’s Build Back Better plan in Congress, the administration is eyeing every trick play in the book to drum up consumer and…
By Mark Hulbert, Callaway Climate Insights CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Callaway Climate Insights) — The gap between exciting potential and depressing reality continues to widen for sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs). I’m referring to bonds whose interest…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Why, in the face of a new European war with Russia, is the U.S. military talking about fighting climate change? The U.S. Army’s release last week of a detailed…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Fossil fuel prices are preparing for war this week. What happens next will change the energy picture in Europe permanently. Oil is poised at about $96 a barrel.…
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s just released Democracy Index 2021 divides the world’s 167 largest countries into four categories. These are “full democracies” (12.6% of the total), “flawed democracies” (31.7%), “hybrid regimes” (20.4%) and “authoritarian regimes”…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights At first glance, the Siege of Ottawa started by truckers outside the Canadian Parliament two weeks ago was just another protest against Covid mandates. Over the past several…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights (Bill Sternberg is a veteran Washington journalist and former editorial page editor of USA Today.) WASHINGTON, D.C. (Callaway Climate Insights) — In 2010, when Democrat Joe Manchin first ran for…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights A few weeks back, we forecast that 2022 would be the year when corporate climate pledges faced measurable results, both by institutional lenders and by organizations dedicated to…
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with China’s Xi Jinping last week at the start of the winter Olympics was more than just a political snub to Western leaders, who largely boycotted…