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Mariam Mohiuddin, a Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Consultant at Superunion, explores practical strategies for companies to avoid information overload and build a strong foundation for their climate-related financial disclosures in this insightful guest post. Note to reader: Following a series of formal declarations at COP28, the TCFD has been officially dissolved. Effective 2024, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) will assume the mantle of responsibility for climate-related financial reporting. Uncertainty is the enemy of well-judged decision-making. The Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was set up to provide financial markets with clear, comprehensive, high-quality detail on the impacts of…

Balancing the promise and pitfalls of carbon offsets: Expert Anuj Saush, leader for the Environmental, Social & Governance Center, Europe at The Conference Board shares a reliable framework for how businesses can assess carbon offsets on the road to net zero or carbon neutrality. Right now, carbon offsets – a type of credit that individuals, organisations, and companies can purchase to compensate for the carbon emissions they produce – are facing some bad press. Some critics see offsets as a form of greenwashing, a way for buyers to pay someone else to adopt climate-friendly actions rather than make efforts to cut their…

For financial services organisations to satisfy investors and regulators, it is essential to have a truly integrated approach to company reporting. In this guest post, Helena Schwenk, VP and chief data & analytics office at Exasol discusses how to appease the community; easy data access and management is essential – in this financial institution’s guide to ESG reporting. ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) reporting helps companies improve transparency, hold themselves accountable, and achieve their goals of being more sustainable and socially conscious. With the rise in concern over climate change and the risks it poses to society and businesses, investors,…

As the pharmaceutical industry continues to evolve and tackle modern challenges, sustainability has emerged as a key focus. Janice MacLennan, CEO of St Clair Consulting and creator of the NMBLR strategy platform, sheds light on the efforts being made in the industry to transition towards a more environmentally conscious approach in this guest post. The future of pharma, as in all industries, must be a green one. Global Net Zero targets can only be achieved by compliant governments and industries coming together to work towards a more sustainable future. But while ESG (environmental, social, governance) sustainability targets are essential, how…

The role of technology in addressing the challenges of climate change cannot be overstated. But what might come as a surprise is the unexpected connection between the technology behind video games and the creation of more sustainable and resilient cities. In this guest post, Lori Hufford, Vice President of Engineering Collaboration at Bentley Systems, sheds light on how technology is driving the transformation of our cities and shaping a more sustainable future. A quick glance at any newspaper around the world will reveal stories of drought, excessive temperatures—cold and hot—water shortages, extreme flooding, storms, fires, and all sorts of climate-related…

Have you ever wondered where the term ‘horsepower’ came from? Or why we still use it nearly a hundred years later? James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine, first coined the term following a calculation that deduced a single horse could push up to 33,000 pounds one foot in a minute. Since then, we’ve experienced multiple transformations in energy – bringing us to 1,000-horsepower Electric Vehicle (EV) engines. For more than 200 years, both government and industry have jointly built a national network of energy infrastructure to support population growth and economic expansion within the United States. This network…

When seeking solutions to combat climate change, hydrogen is often hailed as a miracle solution – an energy source that is clean and in abundance when needed. But is this really the case? In this guest post, Dr Abdullah Belhaif Alnuaimi, former minister of Infrastructure Development, and for Climate Change and Environment, of the UAE discusses why hydrogen may not be all it’s cracked up to be. Green hydrogen is an effective and ecological option, but green hydrogen is rare. Delve a little deeper into the rainbow of hydrogens actually being used and you will find murky waters where production…

The ‘key link’ to mass adoption is now software, not hardware or vehicles. That’s the opinion of Julien Deconinck, Managing Director of Dai Magister. In this guest post, Julien discusses how software innovations are already providing solutions to many of the scaling challenges and will play a crucial role in EV adoption. From $1bn in 2021, EV charging software is forecast to grow to $25bn by 2030, making it one of the fastest growing software sector in the market today and a considerable opportunity for value creation for founders and VC’s. Key challenges in EV adoption that software can help…

Virginia Klausmeier, President and CEO of U.S. manufacturer Sylvatex discusses the challenges of scalable battery production on the road to net zero, and how the company is looking to change that with its ‘next-generation’ cathode manufacturing processes. The recently passed and transformational Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) aims to fuel EV adoption and buoy domestic battery supply chains to achieve a long-term climate goal of net zero emissions by 2050. With more than $380 billion to be invested in measures that counter climate change and boost renewable energy, this crucial legislation targets a reduction in carbon emissions of 40% by 2030…

Most of the conversations around climate change and sustainability issues still focus around the ‘what if’ and what may need to happen in the future to mitigate any changes to our environment as a result. However, there has already been some undeniably drastic changes to our eco system that are creating impact now. Increased extreme weather events have put strains on local authorities as they manage threats around flooding and storms – and more recently very hot weather, drought and hosepipe bans. The attention on sustainable waste management has also magnified, and as plastic pollution continues to make headlines, they’ve…