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Rupert Darwall
Rupert Darwall is a senior fellow of the RealClear Foundation and author of the books “
The Age of Global Warming: A History
,” “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex,” and “Going Through the Motions: The Industrial Strategy Green Paper.” Darwall also authored the reports “
The Climate Noose: Business, Net Zero, and the IPCC’s Anti-Capitalism
,” “
Capitalism, Socialism and ESG
,” “
Climate-Risk Disclosure: A Flimsy Pretext for a Green Power Grab
,” “
The Anti-Development Bank: The World Bank’s Regressive Energy Policies
,” and “
The Folly of Climate Leadership
.”
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Britain’s Net-Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam
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December 26, 2023
Rishi Sunak Speaks Sense on Net Zero
Commentary Britain’s prime minister Rishi Sunak was denounced before he’d uttered a word on net zero ahead of ...
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September 26, 2023
EPRINC Report Shows That IEA Net Zero Roadmap Is a Green Mirage
News Analysis Two years ago, efforts by climate activists and environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) investors to ...
Analysis
June 22, 2023
King Charles III Has a Climate Record to Live Down
Commentary This Saturday’s coronation of King Charles III marks a significant moment in Britain’s history. No previous constitutional ...
Viewpoints
May 8, 2023
Inflation, Net Zero, and the Bank of England
Commentary “What a banker,” read the unsubtle headline in The Sun. “BoE official on £190k salary says Brits must accept they’re ...
Viewpoints
April 28, 2023
Mervyn King’s Proposal for Preventing Bank Runs Deserves Another Hearing
Commentary March was a bad month for the Dodd–Frank Act. We now know that Dodd–Frank, enacted in the ...
Viewpoints
April 28, 2023
BlackRock’s Larry Fink and the New Post-ESG Realism
Commentary As regular as the turn of the seasons, each January sees Larry Fink, founder and CEO of ...
Viewpoints
March 31, 2023
Leading Economist: ‘Net Zero Means Higher Interest Rates’
Commentary Politicians and climate activists portray net-zero climate policies as a win-win: good for the planet, good for ...
Viewpoints
March 24, 2023
SVB, ESG, and Biden’s ERISA Rule
Commentary The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) occurred just days after Congress passed the Braun–Barr resolution, which overturns ...
Viewpoints
March 16, 2023
The World Bank Takes a Wrong Turn
Commentary President Joe Biden’s nomination of Ajay Banga, the former CEO of Mastercard, to succeed David Malpass as ...
Viewpoints
March 1, 2023
When the New Right Meets the Old Left on ESG
Commentary This month, conservative critics of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing had something of a surprise—an almost-simultaneous ...
Viewpoints
January 27, 2023
The Fed’s Jay Powell Is Trying to Have It Both Ways on Climate Change
Commentary Fed-speak, Alan Greenspan once explained, was about practicing the art of constructive ambiguity. Testifying to Congress as Federal ...
Viewpoints
January 18, 2023
2022: The Year ESG Fell to Earth
Commentary The year 2022 brings an end to an era of illusions: a year that saw the end ...
Viewpoints
December 29, 2022
ESG RIP: Review of Terrence Keeley’s ‘Sustainable,’ Part 4
Concern about catastrophic climate change has been the biggest factor driving ESG, yet the likelihood of climate change ...
Viewpoints
December 27, 2022
ESG RIP: Review of Terrence Keeley’s ‘Sustainable,’ Part 3
Commentary In the third of his four part review of Terrence Keeley’s Sustainable, Rupert Darwall writes that ESG ...
Viewpoints
December 21, 2022
ESG RIP: Review of Terrence Keeley’s ‘Sustainable,’ Part 2
ESG investment strategies can see investors giving up financial returns for no societal gain. In the second of ...
Viewpoints
December 16, 2022
ESG RIP: Review of Terrence Keeley’s ‘Sustainable,’ Part 1
ESG has its origins in a speech by U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan at the Davos World Economic Forum ...
Viewpoints
December 14, 2022
The Choice for Conservatives: America’s Commercial Republic or State Capitalism?
Commentary Conservatives have a disposition to believe that there's little new under the sun. It's why conservative thinkers ...
Viewpoints
November 12, 2022
Joe Biden’s Energy Crisis
Commentary The West is experiencing its third energy crisis. The first, in 1973, was caused by the near-quintupling ...
Viewpoints
October 4, 2022
The Pessimistic Rationalist and the Philosopher of Fossil Fuels
Commentary More than 80 percent of global gross domestic product (GDP) is covered by national net-zero targets. Strip ...
Viewpoints
September 29, 2022
An Oil Company Shows Wall Street How to Do ESG
Commentary In his essential book, “How the World Really Works,” scientist Vaclav Smil writes of modern urbanites’ profound ...
Viewpoints
September 22, 2022
The Next Tory Leader Should Commit to Ditching Net-Zero
Commentary “We’re all Keynesians now,” Richard Nixon reportedly said in 1971 before ushering in a decade of high inflation. In the ...
Viewpoints
July 27, 2022
SEC Climate Disclosure Rule: A Duck That Quacks
Commentary In his recent memoir, former attorney general William Barr recounts how the Trump administration lost its attempt ...
Viewpoints
July 7, 2022
Woke Investors Threaten the West’s Security
Commentary Since Russia attacked Ukraine two months ago, Western governments have been learning the hard way about the ...
Viewpoints
April 19, 2022
Net-Zero and ESG Are Worsening the Energy Crisis—and Weakening the West
Commentary The day after President Joe Biden announced that the United States would ban imports of Russian oil and gas, ...
Viewpoints
March 18, 2022
The Biden Administration’s ERISA Work-Around
Commentary Rising inflation threatens the value of Americans’ retirement savings. Now the Biden administration is finalizing a rule ...
Viewpoints
March 2, 2022
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