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ESG Review is devoted to the strategies, technologies, and investments that companies are making to create sustainability over the long term. It is intended to spark the collaboration and awareness needed for a sustainable future.

ESGreview.net is updated every Wednesday at noon (CST) and is home to feature articles, news items, and more.

ESG Review magazine is published quarterly and digitally delivered to readers in February, May, August, and November.

Columns & Columnists

Pulse Of Planet Earth

In Pulse Of Planet Earth, Paula DiPerna discusses new investment vehicles and financial architecture designed to achieve massive shifts in capital flows toward environmental stewardship and away from environmental exhaustion. She examines emerging metrics, policies, cutting edge technologies, carbon and other environmental markets, and wholly new approaches to the use of money in our global economy, weaving in her extensive range of personal experience around the world. Using a uniquely personal narrative style, DiPerna’s column brings to life transformational vanguard approaches that can break through long-standing bottlenecks to truly put economic activity at the service of environmental protection at a planetary scale.

DiPerna is an author, media commentator, and strategic policy and philanthropic advisor. She currently serves as special advisor to CDP, as well as on the Distinguished Advisory Board of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market and the Sustainability Advisory Council of Jupiter Asset Management. DiPerna formerly served as president of the Joyce Foundation, as well as resident of CCX-International (Chicago Climate Exchange), which launched and operated the world’s first cap-and-trade system to address climate change. DiPerna also served as writer, producer, and Vice President for International Affairs for The Cousteau Society, whose principal was legendary oceans explorer and environmentalist Jacques-Yves Cousteau. DiPerna’s most recent book is Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Previous Assets (Wiley).

Shaking Up The Energy Future

As a business owner on the ground floor of the energy transition, Nooshin Behroyan provides insight on the current state of the energy sector, how different technologies work, and steps that must be taken to grow renewable energy capacity. Behroyan focuses on transparency and accountability, data analytics, and challenging the status quo. She takes a deep dive into energy intensive industry practices and teaches readers about the strides the industry has made, especially with new technologies such as methane recapture.

Behroyan is the founder and chief executive officer of energy startup Paxon Energy & Infrastructure Services (Paxon). Paxon’s services include pipeline integrity, methane capture, wildlife mitigation, and other services in light, heat, and transportation. Behroyan is an Iranian immigrant, UC Davis environmental engineer, and UC Berkeley LEED architect. Behroyan serves on the board of the Sustainable Supply Chain Alliance where the focus is on getting suppliers and utilities to work together to reduce their emission footprint. She is also board president of the San Francisco chapter of the National Association for Women Business Owners.

The Take Off

As a columnist for ESG Review, Ross Faransso identifies steps developers should take to future-proof projects while generating long-term value and returns. Faransso serves as chief executive officer of Nexus PMG, an advisory services firm that delivers technical, operational, and financial diligence for low-carbon infrastructure projects. Before joining Nexus PMG, Faransso spent 16 years at KBR as a director of operations and most recently as KBR’s Americas head of business development. Faransso is an active board member of the Association for the Capital Projects Engineering & Construction Community (ECC).

RNG Spotlight

The Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition) provides ESG Review readers with renewable natural gas (RNG) project, industry, and policy updates so they can stay informed about RNG’s role in the energy transition. Founded in 2011, the RNG Coalition represents more than 400 member companies. The RNG Coalition advocates for and educates elected officials and the general public about the energy reliability, sustainability, and global and local environmental and economic benefits of renewable gas.

Contributors to the RNG Spotlight include Dana Adams, legislative policy manager for RNG Coalition; Dylan Chase, manager of public relations for the RNG Coalition; Johannes Escudero the founder and CEO of RNG Coalition; Sam Wade serves as the RNG Coalition’s director of Public Policy.

Fahrenheit 2.7

The official stated goal of the Paris Agreement is “to limit global warming to well below 3.6°F (2°C), preferably to 2.7°F (1.5°C) compared to pre-industrial levels.” Deceptively simply but riddled with complexities, the proposal calls for an internationally unified front that directly addresses climate change. It’s ESG on a global scale. Similar to company-submitted ESG reports, countries that have adopted the Paris Agreement began reporting their actions and measurable results to the Global Stocktake. In April 2024, the stocktaking was mandated by the United Nations General Assembly and convened by the Assembly President as part of the first-ever Sustainability Week held by the General Assembly.

Analysis from the World Meteorological Organization and the Copernicus Climate Change Service indicates that the Earth’s temperature was above 2.7°F for most months in 2023. In 2020, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that Earth is already 1.8°F (1°C) above pre-industrial levels and certain regions were above 2.7°F. The problem is getting worse, not better.

Melting ice caps, rising sea levels, disrupted ecosystems, and potentially uninhabitable metropolitan areas are just some of the dangers affecting our planet. The higher global warming is, the more these risks are amplified and the closer we get to the tipping point. Warming the planet to 3.6°F above pre-industrial levels tils the balance in favor of catastrophe. As stewards of planet Earth, it’s our responsibility to avoid that.

The purpose of ESG Review isn’t to take sides, but instead, to spur open dialogues so that we can learn from each other and work together. The Fahrenheit 2.7 column is a part of this mission. Here, ESG Review Editor-In-Chief Daniel Foelber discusses the impact that technology, policy, public and private initiatives, business, and finance are having on the world around us.