Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Foundation leaders “unite in advance” of expected attacks in the supercharged political environment; how the carbon credit platform Rubicon Carbon is using diversification and ratings to strengthen the market for voluntary carbon credits (07:20); and the bumpy road to the sustainable future as charted by Generation Investment Management’s annual Sustainability Trends Report (15:05). Bonus: a preview of next week’s Agents of Impact interview with Carbon Tracker’s Mark Companele.

Story links:

• “⁠Foundation leaders ‘unite in advance’ of expected attacks on spending and speaking⁠,” by David Bank.

  “Rubicon’s ‘all of the above’ plan to diversify and rate the market for carbon credits,” by Erik Stein.

  “Ten slides that chart the bumpy road to the sustainable future,” by Amy Cortese.