This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Climate research provider and environmental disclosure platform CDP announced the launch of the ability for companies to report on plastic-related impacts, following demand from investors for more information on companies’ plastic-related risk and exposure.
But 40% of the reductions came from divesting, or selling off, dirty assets, which from the atmosphere’s perspective is akin to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Source: Corporate Knights, CDP Note: percentages for “How GHG reductions were achieved” may not add up to 100% due to rounding. dollars) through 2030.
The CDP Global Water Report (2020) informs us that, when it comes to water security, “The cost of inaction is five times the cost of action.”. CDP and Planet Tracker’s High and Dry: How Water Issues Are StrandingAssets , May 2022 report recognizes that “Water risk is already strandingassets across major sectors of the global economy.”.
Last month, environmental disclosure platform CDP announced the launch of the ability for companies to report on plastic-related impacts, citing a request from more than 740 investors with US$136 trillion in assets for the disclosure. Many jurisdictions have also recently introduced laws banning the use of single-use plastics.
The group brings together frameworks that are referencing or building on the GHG protocol, including the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), CDP, Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB), International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).
Environmental disclosure platform CDP has identified potential value at risk of US$225 billion related to water risk exposure among listed equities. Water insecurity can affect current outputs and constrain future growth in the private sector, said CDP. Water risk factors and strandedassets.
The evolving climate drives physical risks—damaged or strandedassets and business-interruption costs from severe weather events. Republic Services is on Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies list and CDP Worldwide’s Climate A List.
“This is a shake-up of the method of production for many companies, and that inherently comes with increased costs,” says Nathan Cole, Head of Sustainable Business at environmental disclosure platform CDP. Risk of strandedassets Many major asset owners and managers have vociferously supported the treaty. “The
CDP found that these financed emissions are on average approximately 700 times higher than the organisation's operational emissions. While the process is complex, the pay-offs are considerable. For example, the indicative financed emissions from the UK financial sector in 2019 were found to be 1.8
For example, they may request assurance that the company won’t end up with strandedassets.”. They have to make that decision themselves. In some cases, they have stayed invested and asked companies for more information. Potential evidence of greenwashing.
In April 2024, CDP rolled out a dedicated SME corporate questionnaire , which is a simplified version of their corporate questionnaire and allows SMEs to report voluntarily. The business benefits of getting reporting right go beyond compliance.
In its recent report on environmental disclosures by firms in Southeast Asia, covering climate, water and deforestation, disclosure platform CDP found a 25% increase in forest-related disclosures, with growth rates in the region outstripping global trends.
With the addition of the new tools created in partnership with Normative, CDP, BSR and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, the SME Climate Hub will be able to better enable SMEs to make strategic and impactful emissions reductions, track their progress, and demonstrate climate leadership.
Only 1% of over 13,000 corporates across 13 industries and 117 countries disclosed against 24 key climate transition plan indicators, according to a 2021 report by sustainability disclosure platform CDP. Eighty-four percent responded to less than 80% of those indicators. .
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 5,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content