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Are we secretly pleased about climate change?

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 30 May 2013

If you haven’t yet come across the comedian David Mitchell’s short ‘SoapBox’ on climate change then I recommend you take a look. But behind the humour lies some serious points. Much of the environmental challenges that we face “aren’t much fun”, as he...

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Comatose carbon markets

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 19 April 2013 Thematic Blog

Back in 2009, along with tens of thousands of others, I joined the Climate March as it snaked through Central London demonstrating support for a strong global deal on climate change at the Copenhagen Summit. What was surprising to me on that march was the level of antipathy directed towards the...

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Going beyond the sugar rush: Novo Nordisk and sustainable value

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 28 February 2013 Market Blog

It is not often that one’s first meeting of the day starts with an exquisite rendering of a 19th Century Danish hymn by a quartet of professional musicians. The singing along with a crisp, cloudless but decidedly chilly Copenhagen morning served to kick-start a day-long discussion of...

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O wad some Power the gift tae gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us!

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 7 February 2013 Thematic Blog

Getting excited about the mass adoption of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) seemed a perfectly reasonable response to projections for the market in 2013 until a colleague pointed out that he could think of little else that would as surely send him to sleep. The comment reminded me of the quote from...

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Doha 2012: Agreement to find an agreement in 2015

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 17 December 2012

The annual ‘Conference of the Parties’ has yet to regain the momentum and profile that it achieved in 2009 when negotiations took place in Copenhagen. Back then the negotiations concluded in dramatic style with President Obama, the newly–minted Nobel Peace laureate (in part given...

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Tilting at Windmills

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 19 November 2012 Thematic Blog | Market Blog

Of all the issues that could have caused division in the UK’s Coalition Government, support for the deployment of onshore wind was not originally a leading contender.

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Global | Clean Energy | WHEB

Why gas is not green

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 11 October 2012 Thematic Blog

We’ve talked in previous blog posts about the shale gas revolution in the US and the growing enthusiasm for natural gas as a relatively low carbon fuel. There is no doubting the growing momentum building behind natural gas as a source of energy. But is gas really a green fuel?

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Heading for a warmer world: investing in a changing climate

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 6 September 2012 Thematic Blog

In the end, the Republican Convention got away with only a minor dousing from hurricane Isaac as it careered to the West through Louisiana and Arkansas. Even there Isaac did relatively limited damage of approximately £2bn, at least compared with Hurricane Katrina's $42bn1. But the memory of...

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This is not just any corporate sustainability, this is M&S sustainability

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 20 June 2012 Fund Blog

Today (19th June) marked the fifth anniversary of the launch of Marks and Spencer’s ‘Plan A’ on sustainability. The breadth of what is still regarded as the most ambitious corporate sustainability strategy in existence was underlined by the eclectic range of questions fired...

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One of those corporate socialist reports...

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 1 June 2012 Market Blog

"You want us to produce one of those corporate socialist reports?!" This incredulous response, from the CEO of a large US conglomerate may not be the typical reaction that we get from companies (a raised eyebrow is much more common in London) but it does belie a deep-seated misunderstanding about...

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