GreenBiz

APRIL 8, 2021

Climate accountability reaches the CFO suite. I spent about a decade of my life writing about corporate accounting before I began focusing on sustainability and sustainable finance. And in just the past few years, it’s been elevated to something companies are financially accountable for. Emily Chasan. Thu, 04/08/2021 - 02:00.

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GreenBiz

JULY 7, 2022

During a keynote conversation at GreenFin 22 last week, Sarah Bloom Raskin discussed how the financial regulatory system can — and must — account for climate risk.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2022

Sponsored: Consistent, comparable climate-related disclosure is necessary to ensure accountability for the urgent climate action needed in this critical decade.

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Climate change 383

GreenBiz

JANUARY 28, 2021

Salesforce, Accenture and a tipping point for carbon accounting. With that heightened visibility comes questions about accountability and accounting — specifically carbon accounting. Salesforce is clearly the biggest cloud software company staking a claim in the emerging carbon accounting software category.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2022

The private sector accounts for the majority of global emissions, but at present, business progress and delivery against decarbonization targets, ambitions and aims is not being captured.

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NRDC onEarth

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

At the start of COP28, civil society groups from around the world are urging countries to establish a Glasgow Declaration Accountability Framework (GDAF).

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Organic 206

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? According to a new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability, most of the top 100 law firms in the United States "provide far more support to clients driving the climate crisis than clients addressing it." Joel Makower. Tue, 10/13/2020 - 01:40. But, hopefully, lead.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

What the limits of traditional accounting mean for the future of food. Traditional accounting methods do not fully capture the externalized costs of economic activities in the food and agricultural space, and this shortcoming is becoming more apparent because climate change is intensifying the focus on sustainable development.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The sustainability industry wants more data. But does it really need it? And what does that mean for sustainability professionals of tomorrow?

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Sustainability 512

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If your company isn’t marrying its digital strategy with its ESG blueprint, it will find itself at a disadvantage.

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Carbon 368

PV Tech

APRIL 18, 2024

Clean energy added about US$320 billion to the world economy last year, accounting for 10% of global GDP growth in 2023, according to a study from the IEA.

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GreenBiz

JULY 25, 2023

The divide is largely over whether sustainable aviation fuel derived from corn-based ethanol and other agricultural crops should qualify for a tax credit created by the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Aviation Agriculture Sustainability 370

GreenBiz

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol hasn’t been updated in years, but a much-needed overhaul is on the way as are frameworks that aim to improve Scope 3 data collection.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 7, 2024

The post The Brief: Nudging climate action from disclosure to accounting appeared first on ImpactAlpha. In today’s Brief: – David Bank Featured: Policy Corner New SEC rules may be just enough to push climate action.

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Policy 115

NRDC onEarth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Leading voices call for global accountability on protecting the world's climate-critical forests in NRDC's Climate Week panel event.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Evidence suggests disclosure is rarely as helpful as advocates claim in addressing policy challenges, and the middleman economy is no exception.

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Policy 370

GreenBiz

MARCH 9, 2023

The World Wildlife Fund asserts that product-level emissions data for food products is meaningless without stronger standards and more detailed input factors.

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Carbon 410

GreenBiz

APRIL 5, 2023

Organizations worldwide are facing increasing pressure to capture, analyze, and report their carbon data in a quantified, metrics-driven way.

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NRDC onEarth

JULY 11, 2023

In the absence of accountability from the Global North, there are warning signs the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use is set up for failure.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The GHG Protocol helped catalyze a generation of renewable energy procurement, but it’s starting to show its age. A proposed new approach focuses more directly on the emissions impact of electricity generation and consumption.

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Renew Economy

APRIL 6, 2024

The post Just 57 producers account for 80% of all fossil fuel and cement emissions since 2016 appeared first on RenewEconomy. Report finds just 57 companies and nation states responsible for generating 80% of the world’s fossil and cement emissions over past seven years.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Is your carbon accounting system prepared to count remote work? And in late March, carbon accounting software firm Watershed released a free calculator designed to help corporations with the task of assessing the carbon footprint implications of managing all-in offices versus hybrid or fully remote models. Heather Clancy.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 1, 2021

The heat is on as shareholders in ExxonMobil and Chevron stage coups and demand accountability, and a court tasks Shell with cutting emissions.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 7, 2024

The post New SEC rules may be just enough to push climate action from disclosure to accounting appeared first on ImpactAlpha. And now, the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC on Wednesday enacted long-awaited rules requiring.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A recent report from the Clean Energy Associates found that system-level defects accounted for nearly half of all defects found in battery energy storage systems (BESS), of which two issues related to increased risk of fire.

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POWER Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Data from Global Energy Monitor (GEM), a group that tracks power generation projects worldwide, shows that China was responsible for construction of 96% of all new coal-fired facilities globally last […] The post Global Domination—China Accounts for Nearly All New Coal-Fired Power Plant Construction appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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POWER Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The […] The post EIA: Solar Will Surge in 2024, Account for More Than Half of New U.S. Installations of new solar power generation capacity this year are expected to nearly double the amount that was built in 2023, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Capacity appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 11, 2023

With ABB’s technologies we can ensure that every drop of water is accounted for.” This is precisely why ABB’s solutions are so important to Wellington Water and our sprawling network of water pipes.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Building out accountability and empowering CISOs To bring cybersecurity strategies up to date, in the face of an ongoing skills gap and regulatory restraints in the energy market where justifying the return on investment in skills can be challenging, two aspects are now critical.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 10, 2024

The post Alison Taylor: The broken chain from transparency to accountability to corporate action (podcast) appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The era of cake-ism (as in having it and eating it, too) has come to an inglorious end. “I I think we’re in an.

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Investment 72

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Accurately measuring and reporting on corporations' emissions remains a challenge. WBCSD is suggesting a new framework to solve it.

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Climate change 491

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2020

These might turn out to look quite different in the future, if carbon-accounting under the Emissions Trading System (ETS) were to be based on science and the real effects on climate. The ETS should be reformed to link accounting to the real effects on CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Michael Norton, EASAC’s Environment Programme Director.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 13, 2021

Carbon accounting and disclosure is getting attention at the highest levels. The world of enterprise carbon accounting, management and disclosure has been garnering a lot of attention, particularly in Silicon Valley circles. When it comes to disclosure, investors have told us what they want. It could be a watershed action, so to speak.

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Renew Economy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The post “They’re gone:” Labor bins Kyoto carryover credits, shuts carbon accounting loophole appeared first on RenewEconomy. Labor bins hundreds of millions of Kyoto "carryover" carbon credits, permanently removing the option to use them to shirk Australia's climate responsibilities.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2022

Amazon’s environmental impact extends from waste to packaging to energy and gas emissions.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The idea of converting every type of impact into dollars, euros, yen or other currency is alluring. But it doesn't add up.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2022

By now, we all know the scale of the problem: Up to 13 million tons of plastic leaks into the ocean every year; this is equivalent to dumping one garbage truck full of plastic waste into the ocean every minute; without intervention, we’ll have more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050.

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