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HP Puts a Big Bet on Sustainable Impact as a Competitive Edge

3BL Media

In fact, aligning the core business and value creation to ESG performance is how a number of tech firms are seeking to stand out from the crowd. Among them is global tech leader HP, for which ESG has long been a defining aspect of doing business.

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How Tracking GHG Emissions Accelerates Value and Strengthens Companies

3BL Media

A 2019 Environmental Defense Fund assessment indicated that across all surveyed sectors, over 80% of stakeholders are seeking additional actions related to climate impacts. Governments representing about half of the collective global economy have implemented policies that price carbon, which aim to reduce GHG emissions.

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Two Pillars for a Sustainable Dialogue

Chris Hall

During lockdown, the global economy was disrupted so severely that it triggered a shift in mindset among business leaders to recognise the importance of ESG issues in creating a more resilient future. “ When I attended COP25 (Madrid) in 2019, there was talk of the climate crisis, but there was not a lot of urgency,” she says.

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Sustainability trends 2023

Carlos Sanchez

The work of the Value Balancing Alliance and Harvard’s newly formed International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) aim at measuring companies’ value creation. Value creation is measured by translating environment and social externalities into monetary values. Source VBA.

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Bridging the Gender Equality Gap

Chris Hall

The top 25% of companies in terms of gender diversity at executive level outperformed their peers by 21% on profitability and 27% on longer-term value creation. According to ING, in 2021, corporate sustainable issuance represented 24% of total corporate bond issuance, a 13% increase from 2019.

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Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule

GreenBiz

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. That means a lot of companies — and, indeed, entire industries — need to identify levers of influence that align with their operations, business models and value creation strategies.

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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

In this context, several countries and companies have taken up the challenge, and currently, 90% of the global economy and a third of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges. As part of CORSIA, air carriers must purchase offsets to cap their annual carbon emissions vs a 2019 baseline. People respond to incentives.”