Barry Li | Climate Reporting & Assurance
Insights on climate reporting, carbon markets, and sustainability assurance.
Category: Research & Scholarship
Summaries of academic articles, literature review notes, conference updates, reflections on ANT/auditability/market-making theories.
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The biggest highlight for me about OpenClaw was its elegant memory layer — specifically the soul.md and user.md design that gives AI agents genuine personality and real-world engagement. That simplicity stuck with me. A flat file. A few lines of prose. And suddenly, the agent felt like someone rather than something. It made me ask…
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A systematic analysis of why large language model agents reliably drift toward minimum-viable output — drawing on training incentives, a real-world case study of agent behaviour drift, and a practical prevention and detection framework.
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Two weeks ago, I shared the first version of HASHI — a privacy-first bridge that let you chat with multiple AI agents through a single WhatsApp or Telegram account. It was Version 1.0: functional and fun. Today, I am releasing HASHI v2.1, and I genuinely struggle to describe how much has changed. If v1 was…
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A striking divergence is emerging in the global corporate landscape. According to The Conference Board’s 2026 C-Suite Outlook survey, 38% of US CEOs now say sustainability-focused investments are not a priority this year – nearly double the 20% global average. This marks a dramatic shift from 2025, when 39.3% of global executives named sustainability as…
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One recent paper that caught my attention is “Making things (that don’t exist) count: a study of Scope 4 emissions accounting claims” by Anna Young-Ferris, Arunima Malik, Victoria Calderbank, and Jubin Jacob-John, published in Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal (AAAJ).Read the abstract here. The paper examines so-called “Scope 4” emissions—avoided emissions resulting from energy efficiency…
