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Preparing for the Double Materiality Assessment: The Next Step in CSRD Reporting

3BL Media

Quick background to CSRD To deliver on the 1.5ºC targets of the Paris Agreement, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) was established in 2001 with the support of the European Commission. We explain what this means, why it's important, and how companies can prepare for it.

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ESG Acronyms and What They Mean

3BL Media

Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) The SBTi initiative was created to promote climate action within the private sector by assisting organizations in setting a science-based emissions reduction target in line with the Paris Agreement.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company touts advancing responsibility for sourcing raw ingredients, such as cobalt, within its supply chain. Rosalind Brewer is the first African-American and woman to steer the company’s Americas operations as well its global supply chain, product and store development. and globally by 2040. Company profile.

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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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A Framework for Business Action on Climate Justice

Stanford Social Innovation

Climate justice was included in the 2015 Paris Agreement, for example, and the United Nations declared access to a clean and healthy environment as a human right in July 2022. And while the term didn’t appear at all in global media publications in 2001 , it now appears in the media up to 5,000 times a year.