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…
Climate science is clear: we are heading in the wrong direction, according to a new multi-agency report coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which highlights the huge gap between aspirations and reality. Without much more ambitious action, the physical and socioeconomic impacts of climate change will be increasingly devastating,Continue…
The NGFS released a note exploring the effects of the current energy crisis stemming from the war in Ukraine, and how they relate to the latest iteration of the NGFS scenarios published. NGFS energy crisis To relate the latest set of NGFS scenarios to the current situation and cast aContinue…
On the 21st of September, the Centre Scientifique de Monaco will participate to the Valuing Natural Capital Conference, a unique collaboration of the United Nations, key researchers from Harvard University’s Department of Economics, the FootPrint Coalition, and the Think Tank Geneva Macro Labs, who will jointly rethink the relation between nature and finance.Continue…
Billions of people, in developed and developing nations, benefit daily from the use of wild species for food, energy, materials, medicine, recreation, inspiration and many other vital contributions to human well-being. The accelerating global biodiversity crisis, with a million species of plants and animals facing extinction, threatens these contributions to people,Continue…
The Africa Energy Outlook 2022 is a new report from the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook series. It explores pathways for Africa’s energy system to evolve toward achieving all African development goals, including universal access to modern and affordable energy services by 2030 and nationally determined contributions. Today’s cripplingContinue…
A report by INTERPOL – The devastating impact of illegal gold mining in Latin America – explores the environmental impacts and criminal benefits of illicit gold production in six Latin American countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Peru. Its analysis highlights how the increase in gold demand has actedContinue…
Achieving a sustainable Europe will require far-reaching societal change, engaging all areas of the economy and society according to the EEA web report ‘Imagining sustainable futures for Europe in 2050’. Since 2020, the EEA and Eionet (Environmental Information and Observation Network) have been exploring how to use qualitative scenarios or ‘imaginaries’ to support environmental assessment andContinue…
