Climate
Press Clip
Birth of a standard: Where the ISSB came from and what it will do
EuroMoney
Good analysis of the provenance of the IFRS Foundation's International Sustainability Standards Board and the important role therein of the organization I founded and chaired, the Climate Disclosure Standards Board.
Video
Launch of International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) at COP26
IFRS Foundation, Youtube
Joint announcement of the IFRS Foundation's decision to establish a new International Sustainability Standards Board, integrating the intellectual property and staff of CDSB and VRF. Participating in my capacity as CDSB Chairman and with IFRS Foundation Chairman Erkki Liikanen, Value Reporting Foundation Co-Chair Richard Sexton and Impact Management Project CEO and IFRSF advisor Clara Barby.
Paper
Financing Human-Centred COVID-19 Recovery and Decisive Climate Action Worldwide: International Cooperation’s 21st Century Moment of Truth
International Labour Organization (ILO)
This ILO Working Paper outlines how the existing capital and authorities of international financial institutions could be deployed to triple international development and climate finance for low-income and most middle-income countries for the next seven years, equivalent to twice the Marshall Plan's assistance to Europe following WWII.
Article
Give Climate and Trade Negotiators a New Joint Mission: Low-Carbon Trade Agreements
VoxEU
Article in leading European economic research outlet proposing a new type of plurilateral trade agreement or green trade alliance among a core group of major economies interested in aligning relevant enabling economic policies and standards for the purpose of accelerating adoption of low-carbon products and services across the world economy.
Article
How to Make Global Climate Action Go Viral
Forbes
Article proposing to scale climate action from the bottom up by establishing the setting and reporting of progress on emission targets as a bedrock principle of good governance in the 21st century for subnational governments (cities and provinces), corporations and other large organizations such as hospitals and universities.
Article
The Paris Accord Won’t Stop Global Warming on its Own
Foreign Policy
This magazine piece proposes a new type of plurilateral trade agreement, foreshadowing but going well beyond the 'Climate Club' initiative of Germany's 2019 G7 presidency, to coordinate multiple economic policies and standards of major economies in order to scale the penetration of low-carbon products and services in the world economy and avert a trade war over disparate carbon border adjustment schemes.
Video
Opening of the Inaugural Sustainable Development Impact Summit
WEF, Youtube
Opening speech of the inaugural Sustainable Development Impact Summit on the need for expansion of and innovation in international cooperation in order to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris climate agreement, New York, 2017.
Video
Richard Samans talks about the GGKP (Green Growth Knowledge Partnership)
GGKP, Youtube
Short interview with Richard Samans, former Director-General of the GGGI, as he explains importance of green growth and highlights the value of the GGKP.
Video
COP18: Richard Samans, Global Green Growth Institute
Climate Home News, Youtube
Richard Samans, director-general, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) explains the role of the GGGI in enabling nations to follow through on the pledges made at the UN climate change talks.
Report
Task Force on Low-Carbon Prosperity: Recommendations
This is one of two private sector initiatives I helped facilitate and draft the report of that were early building blocks of the practical "Action Track" added to the UNFCCC process by the Peruvian and French governments in the 2014 and 2015 COPs, supplementing and supporting the implementation of the intergovernmental agreement reached in Paris.