141+ Best ESG & Sustainability Newsletters
Monthly ESG briefings and updates from the OneStop ESG team and our partners.
Newsletter#142 Why Carbon Footprints Mislead and What Investors Should Measure Instead
David Russell, Chair of the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI), discusses why a company’s historical carbon footprint is a poor guide for investors, and why credible, financed transition plans matter more than backward-looking emissions data.
#141 The $3 Billion ESG Rebound Was Really a $3.1 Billion Grid Trade
US sustainable funds returned to positive flows in Q2 2026 after almost four years of withdrawals, but one smart-grid ETF accounted for more than the category’s entire net inflow.
Newsletter#140 GHG Protocol and ISO’s Consolidated Corporate Standard: What Companies Should Do Before 2028
ISO and GHG Protocol have confirmed plans for a single corporate emissions accounting standard. The transition will change Scope 2 reporting, supplier data, assurance, renewable energy claims and the systems companies use to calculate emissions.
Newsletter#139 Sustainability AI in 2026: What Works, What Doesn’t and Why It Matters
AI is now part of the conversation across almost every sustainability team, but many are still working out where it fits in practice. This week, we feature a practical guide from Watershed and a live webinar with practitioners who have already used these tools in real sustainability work.
Newsletter#138 MSCI Upgraded Williams to AAA. Its Scope 1 and 2 Emissions Are Back at 2023 Levels.
Williams cut methane for a second straight year while moving 60 per cent more energy than in 2018. Its absolute operational emissions have not followed the same downward path.
Newsletter#137 El Niño 2026: What It Means for Climate Adaptation and Business Resilience
A strong El Niño is building across the Pacific, giving governments and businesses an unusually valuable asset: advance warning. Climate intelligence now needs to reach budgets, operating decisions and vulnerable communities before disruption becomes loss.
Newsletter#135 Nature Finds Its Reporting Line: Two Years On, the TNFD Moves From Framework to Practice
Two years after publishing its recommendations, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures has moved from an emerging framework to an increasingly established part of corporate reporting. Its first status report captures the shift, while subsequent adoption figures suggest the momentum is continuing to build.
Newsletter#136 Citi Reaches $647 Billion as Sustainable Finance Shifts Toward Resilience
Citi is nearing two thirds of its trillion dollar goal as the definition of sustainable finance expands.
Newsletter#134 Temasek's Pragmatic Ambition on Sustainability
Temasek invested S$5 billion in sustainable assets this year, taking that portfolio to S$49 billion. Emissions held at 21 million tonnes for a third year, and 19 companies account for 88% of them.
Newsletter#133 Mapping Nature Risk Across the Supply Chain: Insights from Natcap’s assessment for a global food & beverage company
A global food and beverage company knew its supply chain depended on nature, but had never measured where that dependence became a financial risk. With Natcap, it traced the risk to its producers, deepening its understanding of its exposure as a buyer. The case study shows how supply-chain nature risk is located, why soil quality was the surprise, and why the hardest part was never the analysis.
Newsletter#132 Buildings Already Have the Technology. What They Lack Is Trustworthy Data.
Commercial real estate now has the economic, regulatory, and technological foundations to reduce energy waste. But according to Mike Zatz, former EPA ENERGY STAR leader and now at Measurabl, the biggest barriers are no longer technical, they're access to performance data, limited capacity to act on it, and weak incentives to share it.
Newsletter#131 Samsung and SK Hynix Lead South Korea's $518B Chip Plan
Seoul and its two chip champions are betting that industrial growth and clean power can advance together. Whether they can will depend on grid and water infrastructure that mostly does not exist yet.