Wales Transition Lab plots its next steps
In April, our Wales Transition Lab team enjoyed an excellent opportunity to meet some of the Lab’s participants at the wonderful Spark building in Cardiff. Jyoti Banerjee reports back on the new ideas and hopes being brought into the Lab.
North Star Transition announces strategic partnership with Apella Advisors
Jenny Scott and Jyoti Banerjee have known each other for years. Now the organisations they co-founded, Apella and North Star Transition, are entering a strategic partnership to accelerate systems change.
Driving systems Change: North Star Transition partners with Mott MacDonald
A partnership between North Star Transition and Mott MacDonald brings together our unique Transition Lab systems change chops with their infrastructure, environmental and digital expertise.
Capturing carbon: how should we do it?
We asked Dan Ward, our resident systems thinking enthusiast, to explore how carbon markets might work, and how we might prevent the unintended consequences that mar the current iterations.
Unlocking Landscape Change - Building a Bridge between the Environment and Finance
How can we fund the transformation of landscapes? Jenny Scott reports back from a meeting North Star Transition co-hosted on behalf of Anglian Water with financial institutions and policy-makers on the challenges and opportunities of funding landscapes at scale.
Regenerative Investment Lab: Does a Market System Have to be Degenerative?
It’s time for new ideas, fresh thinking. The business and finance system as we have it is degenerative. Matthew Phan welcomes us to a new dawn for regenerative business: introducing the Regenerative Investment Lab.
Localising Food Sourcing in NHS Wales
NHS Wales buys £22m worth of food annually to serve in its hospitals. Very little of that spend serves environmental, social or local economy needs. Arnav Jain reports on a North Star Transition study on how to localise food sourcing in Welsh hospitals to maximise its impact.
Carbon Neutral Beef Part III: What’s in it for the Food system?
In the final part of Mathew Phan’s investigation into carbon neutral beef, he looks beyond the level of a single farm to address important questions we still have about the wider system. Can the entire food system be regenerative? What would that mean for food supply as a whole?
Carbon Neutral Beef Part II: Is it commercially Viable?
In Part I of his investigation, Matthew Phan found carbon neutral beef to be physically viable. We now ask him to explore the commercial viability of such an approach, and its potential impact on the broader food and socio-economic system.
Bringing together Finance and Business in a New Transition Lab
In February, North Star Transition hosted the first round of the Regenerative Investment Lab, in partnership with UCL’s Climate Action Unit and Preventable Surprises. We asked Matthew Phan to report back on the proceedings.
Scotland Transition Lab: our first steps
As North Star Transition holds the initial meeting of Scotland Transition Lab, Arnav Jain explores the collaboration and co-operation with the University of Glasgow that has enabled this initiative to commence.
Is carbon neutral beef a thing (Part I)
With beef and dairy occupying the extreme left of charts showing the carbon intensity of our different protein sources, carbon-neutral beef – which is physically and financially viable – could change how we think about the connection between pastoral farming and soil carbon. Matthew Phan explores whether there is room to alleviate guilt over his next burger.
Accelerating Systemic Transformation - Wales case Study
North Star Transition has been invited to share its learnings from the Wales Transition Lab at a IIEP / ASU-Thunderbird webinar on Nov 10, 2021, entitled “Accelerating Systemic Transformation: A Case Study from Wales.”
Sam’s walk to COP26
Sam Baker, our friend and colleague, is en route to COP26 in Glasgow. As are many others. Some participants might get there by jet, even private jet. Others might take a train or car. Sam’s going to walk. We asked Sam to share the story of Walk2COP26, and what he hopes to achieve by it.
TCFD is A First Step. We must not stop here.
Jyoti Banerjee was invited to contribute an op-ed to a TCFD report from Newton, a long-term active manager owned by Bank of New York Mellon. Here’s the text of his article, as published in Newton’s 2020 report.
Finance Transition Dialogue #2: Exploring Regeneration
In the second of our three-part dialogue on moving beyond ESG, part of the Finance Transition Lab, our participants focused on what a truly regenerative financial system should achieve. We asked Jerome Tagger, CEO of Preventable Surprises, our partner in the Lab, to summarise the key ideas that emerged from our deliberations.
Finance Transition Dialogue #1: What’s the Problem here?
Risk pricing models, governance, culture, externalities, silos, regulatory capture, shareholder value, fear, need for empowerment, lack of diversity, limited supply of investable assets: these are just some of the concerns put forth at the first of North Star Transition’s series of Finance Transition Dialogues. Matthew Phan investigates.
Ambitions for a Nation: Wales Transition Lab
Since October 2020, a group of 35 thought leaders across Wales have listened to each other and imagined a country that future generations could thrive in. Victoria Topham reports back on the four founding ambitions of the Wales Transition Lab. Witness nation-scale change in action.
Finance Transition Lab - reshaping Finance beyond ESG
North Star Transition is launching Finance Transition Lab, an initiative aimed at reshaping finance to go beyond ESG. The Lab will start with a series of three Dialogues, the first of which will be held on June 10th, 2021. Jyoti Banerjee answers our questions.
Cause of death: Shareholder primacy
The European Super League died two days after it was born. The primary cause of death, to us at North Star Transition, was the disease of shareholder primacy. We asked guest author and corporate governance expert Philippe Joubert to carry out the post-mortem on football’s moneyed disaster.