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Using a sustainability platform like CarbonView becomes more important as the requirements for disclosure become more wide reaching. In 2015, at the inauguration of the Paris Agreement, the Task Force on Climate
In the recently released IPCC report “Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”, one of the conclusions was that “multiple climate hazards will occur simultaneously, and multi
Everybody is aware that governments and corporations all around the world have made commitments to become net zero. The term net zero has three limbs:
- Calculate the carbon footprint.
- Reduce GHG emissions to a minimum.
- Offset the residual emissions.
That seems fairly straight forward on the surface of it but misunderstanding abounds about the Scope 3 emissions that should be included in the carbon footprint (and that are not being included as
This blog is written to inform readers of the state-of-play of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The content, in-the-main is sobering. However, in following blogs we will write about what SMEs can do in their day-to-day operations to help the world to reach some of the goals.
In 2015 the United Nations General Assembly instituted the 17 SDGs via its 2030 Agen
The diagram below is an overview of the structure of the carbon offset markets. The players in these markets are indicated by the labelled boxes. The same players exist in both the Compliance Carbon Markets (CCM
In our last blog, we briefly reviewed the requirements of the Task Force on Climate-Related Disclosure (TCFD), alluding to the fact that its recommendations are being adopted by the large ESG frameworks an
In our previous blog titled “ESG – a brief history of its development – Part 1”, we referred to&
The acronym ESG is short for environmental, social and governance. ESG is a process of quantifying an organisation’s commitment to social and environmental factors. It uses specific metrics related to the intangible assets of an organisation that are applied to tabulate a score of the level of this commitment. That is, a corporate social credit score.
The genesis of ESG lies in t
Article 6 is one of 29 Articles included in the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treat
The underlying structure of the 2001 Kyoto Protocol was formulated on a simple tenet: developed countries were the ones that upset the dynamic equilibrium of the earth’s carbon cycle with their access and