Recent developments in the world of ESG: Modern slavery and social sustainability
The ‘S’ in ESG is refers to “Social” – or the way businesses treat their human stakeholders, including those in their supply […]
Carbon Footprinting: Building ESG metrics into your financial plans – Part 3
Part three: Scope 3 planning using Input-Output Analysis (IOA) In the first article of this series, we looked at the difference between Scope 1, […]
Carbon Footprinting: Building ESG metrics into your financial plans – Part 2
The second part of the Carbon Footprinting series from Managing Director Steve Bows explores Scope 3 Planning using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). […]
Carbon Footprinting: Building ESG metrics into financial plans – Part 1
The first in a series of posts from Managing Director Steve Bows, with ideas on how to incorporate ESG metrics into connected […]
Domestic developments in biodiversity protection landscape
December also saw a raft of announcements in Australia pertaining to biodiversity management, legislation and accounting. It’s abundantly clear that companies must […]
International developments in biodiversity protection landscape
In conjunction with COP15, December has seen a flurry of developments to the biodiversity accounting, disclosure and regulation landscape, internationally. 6th December: Global […]
COP15 – A global agreement reached
After a two-year delay and re-location from host country China to Montreal, Canada (with Chinese leadership maintained), the 15th Conference of the […]
COP27 Series – Mitigation work program
A key task on the COP27 agenda was to finalise the details of a work program designed to scale up the ambition […]
COP27 Series – ‘Fossil Fuel Phase Down’ fails
During COP27, various nations were calling to update the consensus reached at Glasgow’s COP26 to “phase down unabated coal power” by broadening […]
COP27 Series – Breaking down ‘Loss and Damage’
The next series of blogs will explore what happened at the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework […]
Sustainability reporting and sustainable development
In the field of sustainability there is a strong understanding that the private sector has a critical role to play in building […]
International Sustainability Standards Board confirms Scope 3 inclusion
The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), who are part of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) foundation, have recently confirmed that Scope 3 emissions […]