With the UN Convention on Biodiversity (COP15) started in Montreal on 7 December – where countries negotiate a new biodiversity action plan – the timing could not be more critical for GRI to propose a global reporting standard on biodiversity corporates’ impacts. GRI COP15 biodiversity impacts At the UN ConventionContinue…
The Monaco Hydrogen Alliance, the Monaco-based non-profit association focused on promoting the use of renewable hydrogen in transportation, held the first edition of its annual Forum on November 21-22, 2022 in the presence of Monaco’s sovereign, Prince Albert II. The two-day gathering, the first of its kind anywhere in theContinue…
The Climate TRACE coalition released the most detailed facility-level global inventory of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to date, including emissions data for 72,612 individual sources worldwide. The 70,000+ individual sites – including specific power plants, steel mills, urban road networks, and oil and gas fields – represent the top knownContinue…
Important progress on sustainable forest management and conservation has been made at the UN Climate Change Conference COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh with the launch of the Forest and Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP), which aims to unite action by governments, businesses and community leaders. The Partnership aims to boost action toContinue…
In the second quarter of 2022, EU economy greenhouse gas emissions totalled 905 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 3% increase compared with the same quarter of 2021. The documented increase is largely related to the effect of the economic rebound, which can be drawn from gross domestic product (GDP) growth, following the sharp decrease in activity dueContinue…
World Energy Outlook 2022 (WEO) shows the global energy crisis can be a historic turning point towards a cleaner and more secure future. For the first time, global demand for each of the fossil fuels shows a peak or plateau across all WEO scenarios, with Russian exports in particular fallingContinue…
Current economic and political turbulence could presage the start of a new era that is structurally very different with a new narrative of progress. a new era The past two and a half years have been extraordinary. What we are seeing is surely more than the progression of just another businessContinue…
Women in the Workplace is the largest study on the state of women in corporate America. In 2015, LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company launched the study to give companies insights and tools to advance gender diversity in the workplace. Between 2015 and 2022, over 810 companies participated in the study, andContinue…
Momentum is building for a strong political outcome relating to oceans at the UN Climate Change Conference COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in November, including greater ambition to cut greenhouse gas emissions, strengthened measures to build the resilience of coastal communities to climate change impacts and the financing needed forContinue…
New data published by Carbon Tracker shows that producing and combusting the world’s reserves would yield over 3.5 trillion tons of greenhouse gas emissions, over seven times the remaining carbon budget for 1.5C and more than all emissions produced since the industrial revolution. The finding comes from the Global Registry of FossilContinue…
