Rupert Darwall

The UN and the Biden Administration want Net Zero for the U.S.—While China opts for energy realism

Britain shows why net zero would be a disaster for the U.S.

By Rupert Darwall |2024-09-19T10:21:24-04:00September 20th, 2024|Comments Off

ESG and stakeholder capitalism: A necessary deconstruction

The battle to save shareholder capitalism can be won. These three books help bring that victory closer.

By Rupert Darwall |2024-06-26T09:00:11-04:00June 25th, 2024|Comments Off

The hockey stick trial

BY RUPERT DARWALL: Science dies in a D.C. court room.

By Rupert Darwall |2024-02-22T10:43:27-05:00February 22nd, 2024|Comments Off

Book review: Climate Uncertainty and Risk, By Judith Curry

A climate scientist has produced a single-author counter to the IPCC that offers a radical alternative to the UN paradigm of climate change.

By Rupert Darwall |2023-10-12T09:42:02-04:00October 12th, 2023|Comments Off

Rishi Sunak speaks sense on Net Zero

Why the vehemence of the climate lobby’s attacks on Sunak's turn to realism?

By Rupert Darwall |2023-09-25T09:38:44-04:00September 24th, 2023|Comments Off

EPRINC report reveals IEA Net Zero Roadmap as a Green mirage

In seeking to become a cheerleader for net zero, the IEA has allowed itself to be used as a tool for climate policy extremism,

By Rupert Darwall |2023-06-27T03:33:12-04:00June 29th, 2023|Comments Off

King Charles III has a climate record to live down

Here’s hoping that the reign of King Charles will be a happier affair than his failed forecasts of climate doom.

By Rupert Darwall |2023-05-05T10:12:30-04:00May 6th, 2023|Comments Off

BlackRock’s Larry Fink and the new post-ESG realism

Swept along by climate-change fervor, an investment manager “can’t make such commitments without reneging on its fiduciary duties."

By Rupert Darwall |2023-03-30T09:58:45-04:00March 30th, 2023|Comments Off

SVB, ESG, and Biden’s ERISA Rule

One lesson of Silicone Valley Bank’s collapse is the critical importance for business to focus on the essential.

By Rupert Darwall |2023-03-16T10:55:28-04:00March 16th, 2023|Comments Off

The World Bank takes an energy wrong turn

Biden’s firing of bank president puts a question mark over its future.

By Rupert Darwall |2023-02-28T09:19:48-05:00March 1st, 2023|Comments Off

The Fed’s Jay Powell is trying to have it both ways on climate

Powell’s notion of an apolitical Fed tightly hewing to its congressional mandate is belied by the central bank’s decision to join the NGFS.

By Rupert Darwall |2023-01-16T12:23:01-05:00January 18th, 2023|Comments Off

2022: The Year ESG Fell to Earth

Although the disintegration of ESG as an investment strategy became unmistakable in 2022, its existence as a political doctrine will continue until it is challenged and defeated.

By Rupert Darwall |2022-12-28T13:20:16-05:00December 31st, 2022|Comments Off

Woke investors threaten the West’s security

Since Russia attacked Ukraine two months ago, Western governments have been learning the hard way about the critical importance of energy to their national security.

By Rupert Darwall |2022-04-19T10:32:10-04:00April 19th, 2022|Comments Off

Net-Zero and ESG are worsening the energy crisis – and weakening the west

Climate campaigners and wind and solar companies won't give up the fight against domestic energy production.

By Rupert Darwall |2023-02-23T10:49:40-05:00March 19th, 2022|Comments Off

John Kerry: Putin’s useful climate idiot

Kerry hopes Putin “will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate.”

By Rupert Darwall |2022-03-04T16:00:06-05:00March 5th, 2022|Comments Off

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