Expert Opinion: Anuj Saush of business think-tank The Conference Board discloses technical details on overcoming data inconsistencies for scope 3 reporting.
Nature positive plan introduces new standards and protections and sees significant role for offsets (but would allow payment for nature damage where offsets are unavailable).
CDP survey reveals Costco, Honda, Levi Strauss and Samsung disclosing their environmental impacts in 2022 for the first time, while companies declining to disclose included Tesla and Exxon Mobil.
Andrew Probert, Kroll’s managing director, ESG Advisory – EMEA, shares his thoughts on ESG trends for the year ahead given growing stakeholder scrutiny and litigation, and disclosure becoming mandatory in many parts of the world.
ANALYSIS: We present Environment Analyst’s predictions for what will unfold, emerge and increasingly impact demand for specialist environmental & sustainability expertise in the coming year.
ESG compliance is viewed as a proxy for good financial performance but the lack of accepted definitions makes data gathering difficult. Companies urged to align M&A considerations to core ESG strategy.
Global corporate performance on climate change has improved but there was a notable fall in water security leadership. Two-thirds of firms failed to improve their overall scoring in the last twelve months.
Although international agreement on how to count VCM projects towards national net zero targets will be left until COP28, there was some clarification of the rules on carbon double counting at COP27 as Environment Analyst reports.
Lucy Latham of global disclosure platform CDP spoke with Environment Analyst about the implications of CDP’s annual report, this year focusing on climate change and cities.
EU-listed companies, banks, insurance companies and multinationals with significant EU activity will have to comply with the more rigorous CSRD sustainability reporting directive.
Why finding a development paradigm which recognises nature as an asset should be front and centre of the COP27 agenda, according to experts at the 'Valuing natural capital 2022' global conference. Nick Cottam reports
