{"product_id":"the-climate-expert-foundations-a-briefing-for-young-professionals-9798198364882","title":"The Climate Expert: Foundations: A Briefing for Young Professionals","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Climate Expert Publications\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Industries - Agribusiness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Climate Expert\u003c\/b\u003e is a five-volume primer series for young professionals working in climate, sustainability, and ESG. Each volume covers one region of the field in plain language: how it works, where it came from, what the law says, and what a careful professional should doubt. The series is published by Climate Expert Publication, an editorial collective committed to unbiased, knowledge-based information for students, young professionals, and everyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first volume. \u003cb\u003eFoundations\u003c\/b\u003e is the entry point. It assumes no prior climate science, no prior finance training, and no prior exposure to environmental law. Its job is to hand a newcomer the vocabulary, the history, the institutional map, the regulatory geography at orientation level, the live critiques, and a set of open questions for the field that goes by the shorthand \"ESG,\" \"sustainable finance,\" and increasingly just \"climate.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book publishes into a moment in which the field is more contested than at any point in its two-decade institutional history. 2024 was the first calendar year on record above 1.5 C of warming. The European Union's Omnibus I package, adopted by the Council in February 2026, narrowed the inner ring of CSRD reporting. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ended its defence of the federal climate-disclosure rule in March 2025. The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative lost BlackRock in January 2025 and relaunched in softened form in February 2026. Foundations equips a reader to follow this terrain without taking a side prematurely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside this volume: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe working vocabulary of the field, defined in plain language: ESG, sustainability, materiality, double materiality, net zero, scenarios, just transition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA short history from the 1987 Brundtland Commission through the launch of the PRI in 2006 to the EU Omnibus I of 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe institutional map: IPCC, UNFCCC, ISSB, EFRAG, GRI, PRI, UNEP FI, SBTi, and the GFANZ alliances\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 2026 regulatory geography at orientation level: CSRD, CSDDD, EU Taxonomy, SFDR, ESRS, UK SDR, the SEC rule, California SB 253 and SB 261, and ISSB adoption across 21 jurisdictions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive steelmanned critiques every honest practitioner should be able to argue both sides of: Edmans on \"the end of ESG,\" the Pastor-Stambaugh-Taylor equilibrium, the Friede empirical ambiguity, the political-legitimacy and antitrust critique, and ratings divergence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive open questions for 2026 to 2031: materiality convergence, the future of voluntary alliances, the EU model after Omnibus, the role of litigation, and where the field's centre of gravity moves next\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho this book is for: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGraduate hires and lateral movers entering finance, consulting, law, or the in-house corporate sustainability function\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGraduate students moving into climate-related work from economics, public policy, law, engineering, or the natural sciences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJournalists, civil servants, and board directors at small or unlisted organisations who need a working fluency without becoming specialists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaders planning to continue with Volumes 2 through 5 and looking for the orientation that makes them easier to read\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe five volumes of The Climate Expert: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eVolume I: Foundations\u003c\/i\u003e (this book)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eVolume II: Climate Risk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eVolume III: ESG Reporting and Disclosure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eVolume IV: Climate Law and Policy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eVolume V: Net Zero Strategy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Climate Expert Publication.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890512838807,"sku":"9798198364882","price":1355.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798198364882.webp?v=1781180325","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-climate-expert-foundations-a-briefing-for-young-professionals-9798198364882","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}