Why Now Is the Time to Act The global economy is standing on the edge of a major climate reckoning. The ongoing reliance on fossil fuels is driving a rise in the frequency and intensity of floods, wildfires, and storms. In 2025, climate hazards are already taking a severe toll—from wildfires in Los Angeles burning…
Quantifying Your Physical Climate Risks – In Use at DFGE What is Climada? CLIMADA Technologies (Climada) is a spin-off of ETH Zurich. For over a decade, Climada has collaborated closely with the university—particularly the Weather and Climate Risks department. Together, they continuously develop the open-source platform delta-climate™. What is delta-climate™? The delta-climate™ software is a global multi-hazard model…
Quantifizierung Ihrer physischen Klimarisiken im Einsatz bei der DFGE Wer ist Climada? CLIMADA Technologies (kurz: Climada) ist ein Spin-off der ETH-Zürich. Seit mehr als zehn Jahren arbeitet Climada als innovatives Unternehmen intensiv mit der Universität, vor allem mit der Wetter- und Klimarisiken-Abteilung zusammen. Gemeinsam wird u.a. die Open-Source-Plattform delta-climate™ laufend weiterentwickelt. Was ist delta-climate™? Die Software delta-climate™ ist ein globales Multi-Naturgefahren-Modell…
Am 12. Oktober 2023 veröffentlichte die Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) ihren sechsten und letzten Statusbericht und verkündete damit auch ihre offizielle Auflösung. Was umfasst der Begriff “TCFD” und was bedeutet die Auflösung? Welche Konsequenzen hat das auf die Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung? Diese Fragen werden im nachfolgenden Beitrag beantwortet. Task Force on Climate-Related Financial…
In light of increased environmental destruction, resource scarcity and increased waste production the concept of circular economy (CE) has gained increasing attention. It is the main goal of CE to re-form the dominant linear value chains into a circular economic system. By applying sustainable product design, closing resource loops, implementing service solutions or circularity along…
Companies that are seriously dealing with the topics of climate change and sustainability will sooner or later need to re-launch their business model. When all “low-hanging fruits” are picked a company has no choice but to dig deeper and find more ways to fulfil their climate goals, implement their climate strategy and complete their reduction…
Klimawandel – kein Nischenthema mehr! Aufgrund steigender staatlicher Regulierungen sehen sich Unternehmen und ihre gesamte Lieferkette zunehmend gefordert, ihre Klimaziele mit den 2015 im Rahmen des Paris Agreements (COP21) beschlossenen Zielen in Einklang zu bringen. Dabei wurde das Ziel vereinbart, die globale Erwärmung auf 1,5°C oder 2°C im Vergleich zu vorindustriellen Zeiten zu begrenzen (UN, 2021). Doch…
Science Based Targets (SBTs) are reduction targets calculated on a scientific basis to ensure global warming from the pre-industrial era is limited to well below 2°C, ideally 1.5°C. Developing SBTs and committing to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) will allow companies to gain competitive advantages by reducing costs related to CO2 emissions and help score SBT points…
During a plenary debate in February 2021, the EU Parliament representatives agreed that achieving the goals of the European “Green Deal” will only be possible if the EU moves to a circular economy model and that this change will create new jobs and business opportunities. Furthermore, they stated that mandatory 2030 targets for material consumption…
In February 2021 CDP has released its newest Global Supply Chain Report for the year 2020. The report is based on data and information submitted in the CDP Supply Chain program and provides meaningful insights regarding the supply chain impacts of environmental actions, such as climate-related emission reduction, water security and deforestation targets. The report…
