Here Are America’s Top Methane Emitters. Some Will Surprise You. (NYT)
This article demonstrates the urgency to expand a regime of disclosure beyond public companies. In the absence of such measures, we are in effect “pushing the problem around” instead of addressing it.
Oil and gas giants are selling off their most-polluting operations to small private companies. Most manage to escape public scrutiny.
Christopher K. Merker, PhD, CFA, is a director with Private Asset Management at Robert W. Baird & Co. and executive-in-residence and co-director of the Marquette S-Lab. He is also founder and chair of the board of Water + Energy Forward, a green bank focused on market-based climate solutions. He holds a PhD in investment governance and fiduciary effectiveness from Marquette University, where he has taught “Sustainable Finance” since 2009. He publishes Sustainable Finance and is co-author of The Trustee Governance Guide: The Five Imperatives of 21st Century Investing.
