Best of BS Opinion: Accounting for climate change, tough choices, and more

Here are the best of BS Opinion pieces of the day

Will the growing clamour for green accounting and investment decisions based on Environment, Society and Governance (ESG) norms work where governments have failed to meaningfully address the climate change crisis? T N Ninan assesses the activist investor movement from this perspective. Read it here

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Suhit K Sen says Rahul Dravid, the newly appointed head coach of the Indian team, will have his work cut out. Read it here

Devangshu Datta explains why the obvious measure of legalising cannabis consumption in India will not happen; officials running the prohibition machinery would lose Read it here

Mihir S Sharma points to India’s growing demographic imbalance between north and south as a possible source of electoral imbalance in the future. Read it here

QUOTE OF THE DAY

 

“The climate and inequality crises should be tackled together. That includes both measures to constrain luxury carbon consumption like megayachts, private jets and space travel, and to curb climate-intensive investments … in fossil fuel industries”

 

Al Gore