[Note: In February 2022, the one-year anniversary of the submission of the Complaint, with the issues still unresolved, I wrote an Open Letter to Science Based Targets Initiative Rightsholders — see here — proposing Necessary Remedies to SBTi’s Betrayal of the Public Trust. Developments since then are documented on my…

As an original instigator of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), it deeply saddens me to report that I have submitted the below formal complaint to the SBTi Executive Board. [Note: In light of the grossly insufficient response from SBTi, I submitted a follow-up Memorandum on 24 March 2021 —…

There is much that I agree with in George Monbiot’s “Price Less” piece. Unfortunately, his central premise is fatally flawed. He says that (natural) capital theory is predicated on financialization: “Capital is properly understood as the human-made segment of wealth that is deployed in production to create further financial returns.” …