Every year on April 22, Earth Day is celebrated in over 190 countries. Year after year, a new focus is set. This year’s motto is to take climate action – i.e. to mobilize the world to take the meaningful actions to limit global warming. What is the Earth Day? In 1970, Earth Day was born…
Am 15. Dezember endete die diesjährige UN-Klimakonferenz, der COP25, ohne größere Fortschritte hinsichtlich der Finalisierung des Klimaabkommens von Paris verbuchen zu können. Wesentliche Entscheidungen wurden auf das kommende Jahr bzw. die nächste Konferenz vertagt. Hintergründe zur COP25 Die UN-Klimakonferenz bzw. (Welt-)Klimagipfel (engl.: United Nations Climate Change Conference) ist die jährlich stattfindende Vertragsstaatenkonferenz (Conference of the…
On September 23, 2019, the Climate Action Summit took place in New York, where leaders from governments, businesses and civil society announced significant and far-reaching steps to combat climate change. “The best science, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, tells us that any temperature rise above 1.5 degrees will lead to major and…
The first TCFD report In 2017, the first TCFD report has been released. This covered the basic recommendations for implementation. Now, in June 2019, their second status report has been published. It focussed on the status quo and the implementation amongst companies. TCFD, the Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosure, published a first report with the framework for…
Climate change is ongoing and a current topic in media and society. Also, cities are nowadays and will be impacted in future by effects of climate change. In prior, this is related to a rise in temperatures for most of the major cities, further intensified by buildings, asphalt, air conditioning, etc. This could result in…
In July 2019, Ursula von der Leyen, has been elected the new president of the EU commission. Before the vote has been executed, she announced a Green Deal for Europe and the European Union in her campaign speech to the members of the European parliament. She promised to give climate protection highest priority and to…
Over the last years more and more investors are investigating how sustainable a company works before investing capital. This results in the direct need of a quantification method for such sustainability. Furthermore, those standardized methods create a base for comparisons between companies’ performances. One of the most common tools for such comparison is the CDP…
Companies who have been asked to complete the CDP questionnaire have until 31st of July to provide their answers. Below an overview of the main hurdles to address for a successful CDP participation. Several CDP Questionnaires CDP is not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage…
Letzten Oktober hat das IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) einen Bericht veröffentlicht, in dem die Begrenzung des weltweiten Temperaturanstiegs auf 1,5°C verglichen mit vorindustriellem Niveau gefordert wird. Nun zieht die Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) nach und verschärft ihre Kriterien für die Anerkennung von Science Based Targets entsprechend. Wir erklären, was Unternehmen jetzt beachten…
Traditionell veranstaltet die DFGE als offizieller CDP Climate Change Partner jedes Jahr zu Beginn der CDP-Saison eine Reihe an CDP-Webinaren, die sich mit den Änderungen vom Vorjahr zum neuen Assessment befassen. Auch ein Rückblick der Performance im letzten Jahr wird dabei vorgestellt. Dieses Jahr wurden dafür vier Termine publiziert, die jeweils zweimalig auf Deutsch und…
