World Environment Center (WEC) and DFGE Institute for Energy, Ecology and Economy will expand their cooperation to help organizations to better integrate Sustainability Intelligence into companies’ daily business from a corporate as well as from a global perspective. For March 2018 WEC and DFGE plan a webinar on “Climate-related Disclosures and Investment Decisions” – the…
Bonn Climate Talks took place from 8th to 18th of May 2017. More precisely, they are the UNFCCC intermediate talks. During this two-week event, important progress was made on an outline for a detailed rulebook (also known as implementation guidelines) for the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 to reduce climate change.…
The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is developing voluntary, consistent climate-related financial risk disclosures for use by companies in providing information to investors, lenders, insurers, and other stakeholders. TCFD’s 32 members include both users and preparers of disclosures from across the G20’s constituency covering a broad range of economic sectors and financial markets.…
The CDP DACH Climate Leadership Award Conference and Ceremony 2016 took place on the 25th of October in Munich. As a longstading partner the DFGE was happy to be part of this event, which was held at Terminal 1 of the Munich Airport. Here are the highlights of this day. Our highlights First, several of…
Main findings All information requested in the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire can be reused in a GRI G4-based report, on the condition that the climate change related Aspects[1] (Energy, Emissions, Products and Services, Public Policy) have been identified as material. Material means that the topic is relevant for the company while has impacts on…
DFGE recently co-animated a webinar organized by the World Environment Center on how Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be implemented at corporate level. Here is the short summary of what was discussed there. SDGs are the world’s new sustainability agenda The Sustainable Development Goals were defined by the United Nations to set the 2030 agenda…
ISO 14001 is an internationally recognized standard for environmental management systems. Since 2012, a technical committee has been revising the existing norm to publish a new version in September 2015. How will it impact certified companies? Companies certified in accordance with ISO 14001 former versions (2004 or the amended version of 2009) are given a…
