Thematic Blogs (36 articles)

The end of the line for landfill

By Peter Michaelis , Alliance Trust on 11 May 2013 Thematic Blog

To an outside observer, the way we use materials in our economies should seem insane. We expend enormous amounts of energy and labour growing, mining, harvesting, refining, manufacturing, transporting, and marketing desirable things. These are then briefly used before being chucked into a hole in...

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UK | Environmental | Alliance Trust

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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Global | Carbon | WHEB

Sustainability should be part of a debate on how we explain Investment Risk

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 15 April 2013 Thematic Blog

In a week in which the Guardian interviewed Jeremy Grantham on why he was starting to actively campaign on environmental issues, I was invited to discuss the topic of risk and sustainability at Citywire in relation to portfolio building and private clients. This was an indication to me of...

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Global | Multi-thematic 1

Tripping the light fantastic

By Edward Franks , WHEB Asset Management on 4 March 2013 Thematic Blog

When you run electric current through a tungsten filament in an incandescent light-bulb, you waste roughly nine times the energy transformed into light, as heat. And those old incandescent light-bulbs always need changing: each one lasts around three months at average usage.

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Global | Multi-thematic | WHEB

The Roots of SRI - or why we don't invest in intensive agriculture

By Clare Brook , WHEB Asset Management on 20 February 2013 Thematic Blog | Market Blog

There is some confusion these days about what SRI actually stands for. It used to mean Socially Responsible Investment, but then people decided that the ‘social’ bit was rather misleading, particularly when many funds in the sector were focused on sustainability, so it was changed...

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Global | Agriculture, Multi-thematic | WHEB 1

Horse meat crisis - Testing times

By Hyewon Kong , WHEB Asset Management on 18 February 2013 Thematic Blog | Market Blog | Fund Blog

The horse meat crisis continues to escalate since last month when Irish food inspectors announced they had found horsemeat in some burgers stocked by UK supermarket chains including Tesco. As it turned out, it was not only the UK and Ireland which had the problem. Germany, Switzerland,...

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Global | Agriculture, Multi-thematic | WHEB

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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UK | Clean Energy, Multi-thematic, Environmental | WHEB

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

The impact of the drought in the US

By Ketan Patel , Ecclesiastical on 15 October 2012 Thematic Blog

The US has experienced the warmest 12-month period since 1895, when record-keeping began, resulting in the worst drought in 50 years. This has raised the spectre of another food crisis, similar to the one in 2007/08, when steep price rises in staple foods resulted in hundreds of millions of people...

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| Agriculture | Ecclesiastical

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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| Carbon | WHEB

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How Capital Markets and the West laugh in the face of carbon emissions - while looking holier than thou!

Thanks for that insight Mark. It is depressing to be reminded that hypocrisy is so rife in this...

Patrick Smyth | 1 month, 3 weeks ago | read more

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