Artificial Heart

Guest Post: Paul Clements-Hunt, Head, UNEP Finance Initiative (2000–2012)

Why we launched UNEP’s Materiality Report at the UN Global Compact’s Conference.

We all knew that our pay and ID could be yanked at any time. Life was perpetually insecure.

The letter was fairly simple. The fund managers explained that they suspected that extra-financial criteria might impact share prices…

Volunteers have the least BS tolerance. Here’s how to get the best out of them.

How Carlos Joly and Vincent Zeller wired the first ESG “ask”.

How MBA Schools Missed the ESG Revolution.

Does innovation make communication harder? I think it does. Here’s why.

How we Shattered the Barrier Between SRI and Mainstream Finance.

How we Shook Down the Banks to Launch a Guerrilla War Against the Status Quo.

When I joined UNEP FI as an intern in September 2000 Paul was already on track to lead it. I worked closely with him for five years. We…

UNEP FI, the Finance Initiative, was the brainchild of Mustafa Tolba. An Egyptian who ran UNEP for seventeen years. His main legacy by the…

The International Environment House is located in the Chatelaine neighbourhood of Geneva.

A series of posts about my experience at the United Nations in Geneva from 2000–2005.

I can’t remember who said it. A tall man. A french investment banker in a dark suit. We were in one of the many dark wide and long…