The climate crisis is an ever-present issue in our lives. Kevin Traynor, head of organisational development & tech-sustainability at Centrica (LSE:CNA), discusses how collaboration can transform the sustainability journey.
A survey by Pavegen shows that there is support for an emissions tax on commercial buildings that exceed set limits - highlighting how complex individual responses to addressing emissions can be.
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has updated its standard to give greater visibility to embodied, operational, and user-related carbon, among other updated features for a global framework to reduce lifetime emissions in construction.
Lightspeed led an investment round of $27 million in Plan A to scale its business decarbonisation platform. As AI options support more detailed analysis the carbon accounting and decarbonisation market is heating up.
It’s been an exciting week, with the UNGA calling for greater climate ambition, a scale up of carbon removals and more countries signing on to the anti-fossil fuel treaty, while the UK backed off its enabling policies for the net transition. Investment continues apace however, and more and more it looks like a race to see who is going to take advantage of the transition opportunity, and who is going to continue to pass the buck until the impacts bite.
As New York Climate Week continues, ahead of its first AGM, the UN-Convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) has called on policymakers to boost support and unlock up to $275 trillion net-zero investment opportunity.
As focus on sustainability continues to drive corporate behaviour, Lucy Klinkenberg-Matthews, Head of ESG at Paragon explores how businesses can become market leaders.
The FAIRR investor network has conducted a first-of-its-kind analysis into commitments on regenerative agriculture by 79 global food and retail giants, worth over $3 trillion and representing almost a third of the sector - and they're not making progress.