The IEA World Energy Outlook 2016 gives an overview of how the international Paris Agreement on Climate change. The agreement which entered into force in 2016 will affect the global energy system in the next decades. Such report dives into such topics and analyzes how the energy sector could be transformed, thanks to its energy…
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…
Webinar: Science Based Targets (SBTs): how do companies respond? | July 27 at 5pm-6pm CET | Register now We are pleased to invite you to attend this special World Environment Center & DFGE Institute webinar titled: Science Based Targets (SBTs) – how do companies respond? Please join Cynthia Cummis (WRI – World Resources Institute), Andreas…
Science-Based Targets enable to curb global warming. Before going into further details you can wa the NASA video called A year in the life of Earth’s CO2, to see CO2 emissions evolve over a year. Carbon Dioxide or CO2 is part of Greenhouse Gases emissions, meaning gases whose higher concentration lead to an increase in global temperatures. Discover…
From the 23rd to the 25th of May, the 5th GRI Global Conference was held in Amsterdam. Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is an internationally recognized standard for sustainability reporting. Such conference gathered more than 1,200 attendees interested in sustainability and was an opportunity to discuss current sustainability hot topics. DFGE chose to focus on the…
Die Debatte um die sogenannten “Science-based Targets” hat weiter Fahrt aufgenommen, seitdem sich zum COP21-Gipfel 2015 in Paris zahlreiche große Firmen auf konkrete, wissenschaftlich ermittelte Reduktionsziele festgelegt haben (siehe http://sciencebasedtargets.org/companies-taking-action/) Die deutsche Initiative “Klimareporting.de” , getragen von CDP und WWF, hat nun ein praxisorientiertes Themenpapier für Unternehmen veröffentlicht. Zum Dokument. Darin wird der Ansatz der Science-based Targets allgemein…
Die „Science-Based Targets“ Initiative hat ihren Leitfaden zur Erarbeitung wissenschaftlich fundierter CO2-Einsparziele für Unternehmen als Entwurf veröffentlicht. Der Initiative von CDP, UN Global Compact, WRI und WWF haben sich bereits mehrere namhafte Unternehmen aus verschiedenen Sektoren angeschlossen und entsprechende Ziele aufgestellt (Coca Cola, Procter & Gamble, General Mills) oder dies angekündigt (u.a. Commerzbank, Hewlett-Packard, L’Oreal,…
