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Nicholas Poggioli

@nicholaspoggioli.com
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Sustainability, business, higher ed. This is a personal account and does not reflect the views of my employer.

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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 08/09/2025
Atmospheric CO2 *up* 2.49 ppm year-on-year for August 2025. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 18/08/2025
Going to be rough for 2023-2027ish grads though.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 18/08/2025
Academia is quite angsty. My operating assumption is that in a few years, companies will be scrambling to backfill entry-level and mid-level positions that are in shortage because of the current AI hiring pause, once they discover AI isn't all that useful.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 17/08/2025
Learning is old fashioned. If your model for college is white collar job training, then maybe old fashioned is a problem.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 17/08/2025
Cut down lecture time, replace with in-class work that can be monitored. Add discussion/lab sections for courses that didn't used to have them. The classes that are easiest to blow off are the lecture-only classes that assign work done outside class time.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 11/08/2025
Atmospheric CO2 *up* 2.32 ppm year-on-year for July 2025. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 30/07/2025
Any coverage to corroborate this?
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 29/07/2025
Atmospheric CO2 *up* 2.7 ppm year-on-year for June 2025. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 27/07/2025
Thank you.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 24/07/2025
The use of the fiduciary duty concept in regulation of ESG investment funds.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 24/07/2025
Can you recommend any journal articles that look at this topic? Or is it too new?
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 24/07/2025
They’re desperate to create a use case to justify the capex. Nadella might leave MSFT like Boeing.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 21/07/2025
Highly recommend this short book based on a lecture series Sen delivered in the mid-1980s. www.thriftbooks.com/w/on-ethics-...
thriftbooks.com
On Ethics and Economics book by Amartya Sen
Buy a cheap copy of On Ethics and Economics book by Amartya Sen. In this elegant critique, Amartya Sen argues that welfare economics can be enriched by paying more explicit attention to ethics, and th...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 20/07/2025
And the office of President has such power that many more deals can be made to need federal approval.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 19/07/2025
When all that matters is whether agents hit numbers.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 19/07/2025
Similar to the blockchain and NFT cycles.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 18/07/2025
Sounds like Jevons Paradox. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_...
en.wikipedia.org
Jevons paradox - Wikipedia
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 18/07/2025
From what I've seen, the answers won't have much to do with the questions or class content. Unless it's all multiple choice questions.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 17/07/2025
Historians will marvel at widespread resistance to solar farms and wind turbines and rabid buildout of data centers.
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Monica Iyer @monicavisalam.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOO DENG!!
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 08/07/2025
Inspiring dose of sustainable business realism here, with its recognition that some decarb practices are ROI-positive and some are ROI-negative. www.bain.com/insights/dec...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 08/06/2025
Atmospheric CO2 *up* 3.61 ppm year-on-year for May 2025. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 06/05/2025
"The bank attributed the decision to shifting industry practices for measuring and reporting on sustainable finance, and amendments to the Competition Act that requires environmental claims be proven with an internationally recognized methodology." sustainablebiz.ca/rbc-exits-50...
sustainablebiz.ca
RBC exits $500B sustainable finance goal, cites anti-greenwashing law
RBC (RY-T) is abandoning its commitment to facilitate $500 billion in sustainable finance by 2025 and its methodology for measuring progress toward the goal, according to its 2024 sustainability repor...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 06/05/2025
Changes to Canada's business competition law have caused some companies to reverse sustainability commitments due to a lack of an internationally recognized methodology. competition-bureau.canada.ca/en/how-we-fo...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 29/04/2025
Such a strategy is easily disrupted in a federalist system by arguing that energy policy should be a state-level issue, not federal. A centralization strategy in the structure of US government must prepare for a decentralization counter.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 27/04/2025
Never forget. 80 years ago this month, Bergen Belsen was liberated by British and Canadian troops. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Bergen Belsen: Eighty years on, survivors and families remember camp's horrors
180 British Jews join groups marking the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Germany.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 02/04/2025
Update: there are deer.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 29/03/2025
Sold us meritocracy and delivered midtocracy.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 26/03/2025
UK company trying to match green hydrogen buyers and sellers. www.network-hy.com
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 19/03/2025
In 2024, in anticipation of the EU deforestation-free supply chains regulation, agribusiness firm ADM offered to pay US soybean farmers an extra $0.20 per bushel to become deforestation-free certified. admadvantage.com/adm-resource...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 16/03/2025
US military funding research on using solar power to produce hydrogen fuel from air. Part of military's efforts to reduce dependence on liquid fossil fuels, the movement of which creates logistical risks for forward operating bases and other activities. lailluminator.com/2025/02/25/n...
lailluminator.com
Louisiana company building machines to extract hydrogen power from the air • Louisiana Illuminator
A Louisiana company won a National Sciences Foundation prize for developing the world’s first mobile atmospheric hydrogen generator.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 16/03/2025
Coverage of some winners and losers from biodiesel. www.hcn.org/issues/57-3/...
hcn.org
A renewable diesel plant may put the Columbia River at risk  - High Country News
Farmers, tribes and environmental advocates in rural Oregon raise alarms about the empty promises of biofuels.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 16/03/2025
The bill would make it illegal for banks and credit unions to consider greenhouse gas emissions, use of fossil-fuel derived fertilizer, or use of fossil-fuel powered machinery in lending decisions. ncnewsline.com/briefs/bill-...
ncnewsline.com
Bill targeting ESG for farmers advances to next NC House committee • NC Newsline
A North Carolina House committee voted Wednesday to approve legislation targeting socially responsible lending in agriculture,
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 16/03/2025
Duke Energy had already said it would fail to meet the carbon emissions reduction milestone on the way to a 2050 goal of carbon neutrality. ncnewsline.com/briefs/a-bil...
ncnewsline.com
A bill erasing an intermediate clean energy goal in NC speeds through the state Senate • NC Newsline
NC Senate approves a bill giving Duke Energy a break on in meeting its carbon reduction goals. Republicans said it will help customers.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 14/03/2025
www.wsj.com/economy/edwa...
wsj.com
Edward Leamer, Economist Who Said Economists Were Doing it Wrong, Dies at 80
Preaching humility, he inspired new levels of transparency in economics and other fields.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 14/03/2025
RIP Edward Leamer. These two papers shaped my approach to empirical work. My PhD training occurred when my field was "discovering" what Leamer said 30 years earlier in the 1983 paper. Leamer's 2010 paper was prescient: methods didn't improve, but people learned the magic words to say.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 14/03/2025
Mauna Loa curve is back up at NOAA. Atmospheric CO2 *up* 2.54 ppm in 12 months from February 2024 to February 2025. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 12/03/2025
First yard flowers of the year
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 12/03/2025
If your metaphor is private company, then "tyrannical censorship of unwanted ideas via firings and defunding" becomes "common sense rightsizing for a strategic pivot."
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 08/03/2025
We almost killed off the bald eagle, but conservation efforts led to a robust recovery of the species. defenders.org/blog/2023/01...
defenders.org
Saving the Bald Eagle – a Conservation Success Story
The bald eagle has not only been the national symbol of the United States for more than 240 years, but it is also a symbol of how the Endangered Species Act can save wildlife from extinction.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 08/03/2025
Moving from linear to circular value chains often requires changing consumer behavior. "The utility will also work to educate residents and businesses in El Paso to discourage them from putting chemicals and pharmaceuticals down the drain." insideclimatenews.org/news/0303202...
insideclimatenews.org
El Paso Is Going to Turn Wastewater Into Drinking Water. Other Cities Will Soon Follow - Inside Climate News
El Paso Water broke ground on the first U.S. facility that will treat wastewater for direct re-use in a city water supply, using a four-step process to transform wastewater into clean, potable drinkin...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 08/03/2025
Who will pay for new data center power supply? A state bill would allow "companies to put a charge to build a new generation plant on customer bills before it is producing power." missouriindependent.com/2025/03/07/m...
missouriindependent.com
Massive utility legislation expected to boost Missouri power generation — and energy bills • Missouri Independent
A bill on a ast track would hike Missouri utility rates, critics say, by allowing customers to be charged for power plants as they are built.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 07/03/2025
Tulips coming up.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 03/03/2025
US proposing a carbon tariff based on the idea that China's coal-based manufacturing would be hurt more than US gas-based manufacturing. Would be good news, though ironic, if the US got a carbon fee this way. www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
cassidy.senate.gov
Cassidy, Graham Release Discussion Draft on Trade, Manufacturing Policy to Hold China Accountable | U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy
Senators Collecting Feedback on Revised Foreign Pollution Fee Act Through January 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released a new discussion draft of...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 02/03/2025
Persistent, quiet advocacy and choosing language to find common ground. trellis.net/article/ebay...
trellis.net
How eBay, Nestle and Michelin depoliticize climate policy work
Quiet advocacy, creative framing and collective action are keys to progress during the Trump administration.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 22/02/2025
Oil and gas companies, airlines, and others are lobbying Trump to keep Biden's hydrogen subsidies. www.wsj.com/articles/fos...
wsj.com
Fossil-Fuel Companies Are Lobbying Trump to Save a Green-Fuel Program
Oil-and-gas companies are pushing the new administration to keep hydrogen tax credits, despite the president’s ambition to destroy Biden-era climate incentives.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 21/02/2025
Polyester recycling update. www.wired.com/story/reju-p...
wired.com
The World Is in a Polyester Crisis. One Company Is Trying to Recycle a Way Out
The European company Reju may have developed the polyester recycling technology the textile industry needs. The question is whether the world is ready for it.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 19/02/2025
"at the time the Clean Air Act of 1970 was passed to regulate lead and other airborne pollutants in the U.S., American children had about 15 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood and an associated 7-point drop in IQ." www.wsj.com/science/envi...
wsj.com
Ancient Rome Was So Polluted With Lead That IQs Dropped
Airborne particles from minting coins damaged health, a new study says, and might have contributed to the Roman Empire’s downfall.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 17/02/2025
Useful for teaching international business. Widening regulatory and cultural divisions between the US and EU markets present new challenges for businesses that operate in both markets. poetsandquants.com/2025/02/14/w...
poetsandquants.com
What European B-School Deans Think Of Trump’s Attacks On ESG & DEI
While European businesses double down on ESG and DEI, the U.S. just re-elected Donald Trump as president.
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