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ESG Acronyms and What They Mean

3BL Media

Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) The CDP is a self-reported survey that measures corporate and city action on climate change and forest/water security. CDP's metrics separate companies based on their understanding and application of climate-related changes represented by a letter score.

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iPoint Commits to Ambitious Climate Target

3BL Media

SBTi is a partnership between the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), World Resources Institute (WRI), and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Often, more than 80 percent of a company's climate impact occurs in the supply chain. Further information: www.ipoint-systems.com.

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Eight Myths Debunked

Chris Hall

The GHG Protocol provides a family of greenhouse gas accounting and reporting standards that began with the ground-breaking Corporate Standard, launched in 2001. Over 90% of Fortune 500 companies report to CDP using GHG Protocol. Scope 3 was introduced in 2001 in the first edition of the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard.

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Not as Green as it Seems

Chris Hall

This database was first compiled by the Climate Accountability Institute back in 2013 and is kept up to date through collaboration with disclosure platform CDP today. To this end, the Carbon Majors Database tracks the emissions of the top 100 oil, gas and coal mining groups. Less green over time.

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Safeguarding Our Forests

Chris Hall

Research shows that forests absorbed twice the amount of CO2 they emitted between 2001 and 2019, sequestering 7.6 With so much capital tied to deforestation-related risks, it’s more important than ever that UK pension funds gain visibility of investee companies’ exposure to deforestation, both directly and along supply chains, it added. .

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ESG Explainer: Halting Deforestation

Chris Hall

The role of forests as carbon sinks and sources of biodiversity is well recognised, but action to clean-up supply chains is slow to reduce deforestation rates. Globally from 2001 to 2020, a total of 411Mha of tree cover was lost, equivalent to a 10% decrease in tree cover since 2000 and 165Gt of CO?