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IFRS Sustainability and Climate Reporting Standards to Take Effect in 2024

ESG Today

The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundations’ (IFRS) new global sustainability and climate disclosure standards will be effective as of January 2024, according to an announcement today by the IFRS’s International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). Setting a 2024 effective date is consistent with this demand.”

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CDP to Align with ISSB Climate Disclosure Standard in 2024

ESG Today

The platform provides annual scores for companies – typically released each year in December – on each of the key categories, and the data is also used by information services providers such as Bloomberg, STOXX, Trucost, FTSE/Russell, MSCI and ISS ESG to power investment research, products, indices and ratings.

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Food waste contributes 10% to global emissions but 9 out of 10 countries’ NDCs fail to focus on food waste and loss

Envirotec Magazine

” The latest Food Waste Index Report (2024) , compiled by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and co-authored by WRAP, found that the world wastes over a billion tonnes of food – one fifth of all food available to consumers at the retail, food service and household level annually.

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IFRS Chair: Global Sustainability and Climate Reporting Standards to be Released in June

ESG Today

The ISSB was officially launched in November 2021 at the COP26 climate conference, with the goal to develop IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards, in order to provide a global baseline of disclosure requirements that can be used by jurisdictions on a standalone basis or incorporated into broader reporting frameworks.

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The textile companies creating material change

GreenBiz

Globally, with both the COP26 on Climate Change and COP15 on Biological Diversity happening this year, the urgency couldn’t be more clear. We are committed to only be using recycled polyester from 2024. As part of our new strategy, 'Own the Game,' sustainability will play a key role.

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Brazil to Require Mandatory Sustainability Reporting from 2026

ESG Today

According to the CVM, public companies and investment funds will be able to begin sustainability reporting following the IFRS standards in 2024 on a voluntary basis, with mandatory reporting to begin for public companies in 2026.

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Renewables are 87% of new U.S. generating capacity so far this year

Renewable Energy World

by September 2024). ” In addition, new wind capacity by September 2024 could total 73,453 MW with 22,957 MW being “high probability” and only 151 MW of retirements expected. . .” The latter included the 252.9 MW Prospero Solar I-II Project in Andrews County, TX and the 227.0 respectively. ” .

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