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From Disclosure to Action: Envisioning the Post-Reporting World
Suppose for a moment the dust had settled on how, what and to whom we should all be reporting our non-financial data. ... View More
Accounting for Carbon: New UK Regulations Connect Carbon to Finances
In 2013, legislation quietly passed within the UK that would require companies listed on the London Stock Exchange to disclose global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) within their publically available annual Directors’ Report. These new reporting ru... View More
Comparability of Sustainability Information — Slaughtered on the Altar of Materiality?
This is the third in a four-part series by Ralph Thurm and Nick De Ruiter examining Sustainability Context. ... View More
Linking Carbon-Reduction Targets to Economic Value Added: Making Sense of Science
Towards ‘climate-stabilizing’ corporate carbon-reduction targetsAlthough setting corporate carbon-reduction targets is nowadays commonplace, many targets are grounded in ‘guestimates’ of what seems reasonably achievable or at least looks reas... View More
The #CVSEffect in Action: Wagon Train Edition — IKEA, GM, Mars Stand Up for Climate Policy
Previous articles in this series talked about leading businesses taking bold steps on their own for the common good — because it's the right thing to do — even if it costs the company financially in the short term.This time I want to point to the... View More
CDP: Most Cities Moving to Protect Businesses From Climate Change
The majority of the world’s major cities have disclosed that climate change presents a physical risk to the businesses operating in their cities and are taking concrete action in response, according to a new report from CDP.Some cities already are ... View More
CDP: US Utilities Now Pricing Carbon as Part of Core Business Strategy
In response to increasing recognition of climate risk, CDP has released a new white paper containing fresh insights into how a price on carbon pollution might benefit companies and the US economy as a whole. Contributors include American Electric Pow... View More
Reports Explore Corporates’ Climate-Related Risks — and What They Can Do to Mitigate Them
Two reports released this week examine the increasingly urgent risks to which major corporations around the world are vulnerable thanks to climate change, along with their own part in exacerbating those risks and how they could act to mitigate them.G... View More
Energy Points Partners with CDP to Tackle Climate Change, Resource Depletion with Source Energy Analytics
Energy Points, a source energy intelligence company, has partnered with leading international nonprofit organization CDP, to enhance its efforts to tackle climate change and resource depletion. ... View More
Disney, Wells Fargo, Google Among U.S. Companies Proactively Pricing Carbon, Says CDP
CDP announced today that 29 major publicly traded companies based in or operating in the U.S. disclosed an internal price on carbon pollution to CDP (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project) in 2013, detailing both the risk and potential busi... View More
