End of March the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its proposed rules to enhance and standardize climate-related disclosures for publicly traded companies. The proposed regulations go hand in hand with the increasing importance of climate-related issues on the capital markets thus rising transparency requirements. In this blog post, we will give you a…
Growing pressures from governments, as seen through i.e. the ‘Paris Climate Agreement’ have led to the implementation more holistic and serious climate strategies across businesses. This awareness increase was partially driven by the assessment published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which included scientific evidence on the existence of climate change and established…
The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, short TCFD, announced just a few months ago that it is now supported by more than 1,000 organizations. This implies a significant shift among market actors towards the acknowledgement that climate change can pose major financial risks to organizations. TCFD supporters now have a combined market capitalization of…
Am 25. Februar 2020 wurden im beindruckenden Ambiente des Ministeriums für Europa und Äußeres in Paris die CDP Europe Awards verliehen. Die Preisverleihung wurde von verschiedenen Panels und Impulsvorträgen rund um das Thema Klima und damit verbundenen Chancen und Risiken flankiert. Neben Repräsentanten von verschiedenen europäischen Großunternehmen waren auch CSR-Experten und Vertreter aus Politik und…
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…
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…
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…
Am 19. Februar 2019 wurden im prunkvollen Ambiente des Brüsseler Rathauses die CDP Europe Awards verliehen. Eingebettet war die Preisverleihung in ein hochkarätig besetzes Begleitprogramm. Sprecher waren neben Repräsentanten von Großunternehmen aus ganz Europa auch CSR-Experten und Vertreter aus Politik und Finanzwelt. CDP Europe Awards – Europa führend im CDP-Rating Von insgesamt 136 Unternehmen weltweit,…
On 22nd January 2019, the 2018 CDP Scores have been released. Thus, the results are now available for all CDP participants that reported in 2018 their environment-related data like strategy, risks and opportunities, governance mechanisms, scenario analysis, supply chain engagement, etc. in the areas Climate Change, Water Security and Forests/Deforestation. This blog post will give…
In the beginning of November, leading sustainability initiatives announced that a two-year project has been launched focusing on driving a better reporting alignment in the corporate (sustainability) reporting landscape. This topic has still connections to our published blog post from the 26th Sep. 2018 (GRI and SASB are planning to align their standards) and is…
