Fossil Fuels

The Old Barons vs the Next Economy, Or, Why You Shouldn’t Believe Exxon’s CEO

By Garvin Jabusch. ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods has ignited fury with his recent Fortune interview, because everyone who understands the climate crisis for [...]

Investing in a Time of Polycrisis

By Garvin Jabusch, CIO. The World Economic Forum (WEF) creates an annual list of the top economic risks facing the world over the coming year, two [...]

The Long View: Past Informs Future

The world, and economy, were complex and volatile throughout 2022. In Green Alpha’s signature investing style⁠—combining macro trajectory analysis, [...]

The Crisis in Ukraine: Authoritarianism’s Threat to the Next Economy

Markets aside, the events of the past week have been devastating. Russia’s war on Ukraine is ending lives and placing millions more in harm’s way, while [...]

The Great Repricing: Next Economics and the Climate Crisis

When our friends and colleagues at Gitterman Asset Management asked us to contribute to an important and comprehensive report titled "The Great Repricing: [...]

The “S” in ESG: Moderna vs ExxonMobil

It has been investment industry practice to carefully interrogate the methodologies used by ratings services to assign ESG ratings to companies and to [...]

Big Oil’s Bad Day in the Context of Portfolio Management

By: Garvin Jabusch I was impressed this week by Graham Sinclair's thoughtful piece “Why 26 May 2021 Matters,” looking at “Big Oil’s Bad, Bad Day” [...]

Systemic Risks & Economic Solutions: Transportation

With transportation contributing ~8 gigatons of greenhouse gases (CO2 equivalent) to the atmosphere each year, the sector is a key driver of the climate [...]

Why Investing in Solutions to the Climate Crisis is the Ultimate Gender-lens Strategy, Part 2

“S” and “G” won’t matter if we don’t save the world If you missed Part 1 in this series, where we discuss the climate crisis’s [...]