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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

Just imagine what 2° or 3° or 4° will look like, and how much it will cost. It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 However, it warned, “The existing disclosure regime has not resulted in disclosures of a scope, breadth and quality to be sufficiently useful to market participants and regulators.”. percent of GDP by 2100.

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Everledger and Ford release EV battery passport pilot for material recycling

Smart Energy International

During manufacture, Ford batteries and their inner modules are tagged with 2-D data matrix codes, which are then scanned with a cell phone by each organisation as the battery changes hands.

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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). Scope 1 emissions Scope 1 emissions, as defined by the GHG Protocol, are GHGs released directly by the business in question by the burning of fossil fuels onsite.

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'Giant opportunity': Why achieving a net zero emission supply chain could be cheaper than you think

Business Green

Those companies with independently-verified, science-based targets covering supply chains - also known as Scope 3 emissions - are widely regarded as the most credible, as they take a more holistic - and arguably more accurate - approach to shrinking a company's climate impact.

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How to bridge the SME net zero financing gap

Business Green

It is a stark, if not unsurprising, finding that all observers of the net zero transition should consider carefully, including the growing number of larger firms that have committed to decarbonising their Scope 3, or indirect, emissions, the bulk of which are generated by SMEs in their supply chains.

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Addressing Climate Change and Economic Development at the Same Time

Climate 4.0

This index examines the scope of emissions by each country and its inherent, socioeconomic ability to address their emissions. As we as a species grapple with this seemingly contradictory problem, it's worth noting that people in developing nations must get by on only 3% to 5% of the per-person electricity enjoyed by the developed world.

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Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule

GreenBiz

GHG emission data also helps business monitor the effectiveness of mitigation strategies, and it helps investors understand broadly how the systemic risk across their portfolio is distributed among exposure to emitters (Scope 1 emissions), energy users (Scope 2) and companies with significant supply chain or use-phase impacts (Scope 3).

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