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Great to be quoted in this Bloomberg Green article on growing concerns that the sustainability agenda does not have sufficient teeth. Yet.

Glorious day beyond Three Bridges, at Springfield Farm, High Weald, West Sussex, hosted by Giles Hutchins. Travelled by train to arrive by 09.00. Jenny, Louise, Richard and I spent the day imbibing the ancient woodland and reflecting on regenerative leadership. Typically, lost my reading glasses somewhere along the way. The Patagonia fleece jacket I was wearing, given to me over a decade ago at a Wall Street Journal conference in California, has designed-in holes in both inner pockets. It turns out. The images below give some sense of the day:

Delighted to be co-author with Thammy Evans of a key chapter in a new Carnegie Institute/Carnegie Europe report on how the evolving and climate and biodiversity emergencies for European diplomacy. Great to work with Olivia Lazard and Richard Youngs at Carnegie. More details here.

My article on the changing boardroom change agenda appears in the latest issue of ONE Magazine. Here’s the piece. 30 years after I commissioned Financial Times cartoonist Ingram Pinn to draw it for me, my boardroom cartoon – featuring the fish in a pinstriped suit, a poor woman and a robot – is getting a fair amount of airtime again.

Imperial College sent out a link to this edition of their Planet Pod podcast on Green Swans today. Skimming it again this morning, it strikes me that it’s a good summary of our thinking to date – in discussion with two thoughtful people in the space, Amanda Carpenter and professor Richard Templer.