Jul 23rd 2022

ESG: Three letters that won’t save the planet

The world this week

Leaders

The growth cure

The Tory leadership race and Britain’s growth challenge

The life-sciences industry shows what embracing growth requires

Sustainable investing

ESG should be boiled down to one simple measure: emissions

Three letters that won’t save the planet

Torrid and horrid

Today’s heatwaves are a warning of worse to come

Adaptation will be disruptive, costly and essential

Debt in developing countries

Emerging-market crises have become harder to resolve

But less of a threat to the world economy

Recep for trouble

Lessons from Turkey on the evils of high inflation

It hurts investment and makes most people poorer

Letters

On medical data, Singapore, Boris Johnson, Switzerland, servant-leaders

Letters to the editor

By Invitation

Terrorism

Somalia’s president wants help to fight Africa’s terrorist groups

Labour in America

Reform labour laws to tackle inequality in America, urges Celine McNicholas

Labour in America

Unions are now a lifestyle choice for some young, aspirational workers, says Walter Olson

Briefing

Industrial tension

How has Turkey’s economy kept growing despite raging inflation?

Many Turkish businesses are struggling to cope

United States

Tick, tick, boom

American climate policy is in tatters

A MAGA worry

Is America growing weary of the long war in Ukraine?

Derailed

American public transport faces a post-pandemic reckoning

Lifting the veil on Uvalde

A report sheds light on the deadliest school shooting in Texas’s history

Mortal danger for mothers

America’s already-dreadful maternal mortality rate looks set to rise

Trumped

The January 6th committee has hobbled Donald Trump

The Americas

Follow the influencers

Latin American politicians court social-media stars, often ineptly

Mired in meth

Mexicans are increasingly consuming illegal drugs

Bello

Latin American politicians yearn for Utopia

Asia

Feeling the pinch

Soaring inflation is making South-East Asians hungrier and poorer

Cheers!

Bangladesh loosens its booze laws

In with the old

Sri Lanka picks a new president to replace the one that fled

Pain in Punjab

Imran Khan’s party wins a surprise victory against Pakistan’s government

Banyan

Why Indonesia punches below its weight in global affairs

Whydunnit

What drove Yamagami Tetsuya to kill Abe Shinzo?

China

Tearing down the bamboo walls

The trade war within China

Test after test

New subvariants are the latest challenge to China’s zero-covid policy

Travel bug

Talk of Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan angers China

Lessons from Malcolm X

How Uyghurs became so good at English

Middle East & Africa

Too many prisoners to count

Egypt locks up “terrorists”, but won’t say which terror group they belong to

Constitutional con

Tunisia’s president is pushing an ominous constitution

Growing trust

Why nurseries in Senegal leave pricey plants unguarded

Adventurous capital

African startups are raising unprecedented amounts. What next?

Europe

Game over

Mario Draghi, Italy’s reformist prime minister, resigns

Lifting the blockade

Odessa’s port may soon be reopened

Striking back at the empire

Why a regiment of Belarusian dissidents is fighting for Ukraine

Red-hot in Alex

A sleepy Greek port has become vital to the war in Ukraine

Charlemagne

Germans have been living in a dream

Britain

Britain’s growth crisis

The life-sciences industry is a jewel in Britain’s economy

Don’t gloat about the float

Haleon’s listing shows the problems afflicting the London Stock Exchange

There is one alternative

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss will battle to be Britain’s next prime minister

Regional development

The Tories seem to be cooling on Boris Johnson’s signature policy

Unmanned aviation

A superhighway for drones to fly between British cities

Bagehot

The choice between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss

International

Raising the game

The women’s Euros are selling out stadiums

Special report

ESG investing

A broken system needs urgent repairs

Asset managers

The saviour complex

ESG fund fees

How to charge more

Investors

The warm glow

Companies

Internalising the externalities

Rating agencies

The signal and the noise

The regulators

Missionary creep

The future of ESG

Measure less, but better

ESG investing

Acknowledgments

Business

Companies and stagflation

How to manage a balance-sheet in troubled times

Having its moment

Can Watershed corner the market for carbon accounting?

Bartleby

Will “work from hotel” catch on?

Class of 2022

What Gen-Z graduates want from their employers

Puttin’ it up at the Ritz

Are vacationing plutocrats the true victims of inflation?

Schumpeter

Meet Keyence, consultant to the world’s factories

Finance & economics

Distress signals

The 53 fragile emerging economies

Bittersweet

How American banks are responding to rising interest rates

Three currencies, two theories, one burger

Dollar-euro parity may be justified. But the yen looks cheap as chips

Power play

Is China facing an energy crunch, too?

No payment, no delivery

Fresh woe for China’s property sector: mortgage boycotts

Buttonwood

The Fed put morphs into a Fed call

Free exchange

Should central banks’ inflation targets be raised?

Science & technology

Conflict analysis

Software developers aspire to forecast who will win a battle

Mental health

A popular medical explanation for depression is rebuffed

Menstruation and sport

How menstruation affects athletic prowess is poorly understood

Awards

Association of British Science Writers

Culture

The vision thing

Henry Kissinger explains what he thinks makes great leadership

The guilty and the gone

America’s opioid crisis developed in plain sight

World in a dish

In praise of subterfuge, an underappreciated culinary skill

Designs for living

Buckminster Fuller was a prophet of technology

Classical music

The wonder of Lim Yun-chan’s performance of “Rach 3”

Back Story

The writer of “The Crown” takes on Putin and the oligarchs

Economic & financial indicators

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Graphic detail

The scorched Earth

A rising share of people are exposed to dangerously high temperatures

The Economist explains

The Economist explains

Why have new Omicron strains of covid not been given Greek names?

The Economist explains

The increase in simultaneous heatwaves

Obituary

How to be a lady