The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is an international, independent non-profit that supports businesses, governments and other organizations to clearly communicate their impact on the world. Thorough, accurate ESG (environmental, social and governance) reporting is paramount for both growth and transparency, however, sustainability reporting can be difficult to assess without... read more →
Nov
25
Oct
26
Carbon pricing continues to hold a recurring spot in public political discourse around the world, with debates surrounding these climate policies increasing in the years since the Paris Agreement and are expected to intensify further after the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in October 2021. Not only did the... read more →
Sep
02
A net-zero pathway through sustainable aviation fuel For years aviation has been one of the many sectors subject to growing calls for increased environmental stewardship and sustainable leadership. It comes as no surprise that investors and corporations have been driving this pressure given that the global aviation sector produces 750... read more →
Aug
06
Most of the world is committed to limiting global temperature rises to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels to see off the worst effects of climate change. That means halving greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 and hitting net-zero emissions by 2050. Already, 53% of global GDP has made an intended or... read more →
Jul
19
As someone with an interest in sustainable real estate and infrastructure, you may have come across the term ‘GRESB’, and be wondering - exactly what is GRESB? In this article, we’ll explain the key things you need to know about GRESB, and why their reporting is an important tool in... read more →
Jun
09
What is CDP? CDP is a popular voluntary reporting framework that companies use to disclose environmental information to their stakeholders (investors, employees, and customers). Reporting is completed on an annual basis with the portal opening in April every year with submissions due in July. CDP maintains this data in an... read more →
Jun
07
ESG reporting has gone mainstream - with the consensus now that ESG risk is investment risk, it is paramount to assess and disclose ESG performance as we enter the low carbon transition. And in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has caused trillions of dollars in losses globally, the... read more →
May
27
The challenge of reaching net zero is both enormous and complex and will require a plethora of strategies and systems to be utilized. One important piece of the decarbonization jigsaw puzzle is carbon offsets, which are predicted to increase 15-fold in volume to as much as $50 billion by 2030... read more →
May
06
Sustainability guidance and reporting frameworks play an important role to promote transparency between organizations and their stakeholders. There's no shortage of guidance and reporting frameworks; this crowded landscape is often referred to as the ‘alphabet soup’ of ESG. In this blog – we examine the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures framework and its role in the... read more →
May
06
To enhance corporate disclosure, there’s no shortage of ESG guidance and benchmarking frameworks to enable comparison between companies and supply externally validated information to various stakeholders. In this blog – we examine the role of one sustainability guidance framework – Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB). What is SASB? ... read more →