ESG Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While all sectors have good reason to start mitigating their impact on nature, today’s investors are most concerned about those with large, global supply chains. Regardless of your sector, investors will at a minimum want to know if you’ve screened your operations and supply chain for biodiversity loss, and what risks you’ve found.

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Chris Hall

MAY 26, 2022

“Major gaps” in traceability, supplier engagement and monitoring highlighted in analysis of disclosures to CDP. An analysis of voluntary submissions by 675 companies to environmental disclosure platform CDP found that 211 businesses had reported forest-related risks of US$79.2 billion across their operations and supply chains.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Church Commissioners’ COP26 commitment to eliminate soft commodity-driven deforestation from its portfolio will be supported by COP28 pledges. This policy calls on and encourages investee companies to make “quantifiable, time-bound commitments” to eliminate deforestation from their activities and their supply chains.

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2023

At COP26, institutions managing more than US$130 trillion in assets committed to reaching a state of net zero before 2050. A 2021 report showed that fewer than half of financial institutions disclosing their emissions through the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) have taken action to align their portfolios with a well below 2°C world.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

If you look at the current framework for water reporting which includes the Climate Disclosure Project (CDP), CEO Water Mandate and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) among others, the emphasis is on reporting data but there is not a lot of context to that data.”. Howard says: “We don’t want to replace CDP or GRI; WAVE is complementary.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In a huge step forward for net zero economies and supply chains, the U.S. government – the world’s largest purchaser – proposed that all federal contractors must set science-based targets and disclose their environmental impact through CDP, following in Norway’s recent footsteps. C-aligned science-based targets.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Examples are the Swiss art 964 and the German supply chain act. Moreover, companies will use voluntary frameworks and surveys such as GRI, SASB, CDP, UNGC, and Ecovadis to answer requests from customers, investors and other stakeholders. At COP26 last year, we left with the feeling that businesses were committed to net zero.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 8, 2022

“There is potential for cash rich companies in the developed world to fund on-site renewable generation, or lower carbon manufacturing methods within their developing world supply chain. This is not new.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2022

Alongside its many harrowing and destructive impacts, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has provided an unintentional boost to the aims of COP26. Although the finite carbon budget offers a compellingly clear focus for climate action, accurate measurement CO2 emissions across supply chains remains elusive.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Besides, the pandemic has postponed the momentum towards COP26 or climate change movements like Greta Thunberg’s Friday’s for future. In 2020, more than 9,600 companies disclosed their environmental impacts through the non-profit CDP platform. Besides, the global responsible investing driven assets hit $40.5

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We Mean Business Coalition

MAY 12, 2023

G7 host Japan is to be the first country to house a dedicated chapter of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), an investor-led climate action coalition created during COP26 in 2021. After a successful pilot, the scheme will now be rolled out to Organic Valley’s supply chain across 34 US states. .

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

With firms only being “required” to disclose, “it will now be up to individual governments to implement policies that ensure this happens and we hope that this will be through enforcing mandatory disclosure on nature,” said Helen Finlay, Global Associate Director for Policy Engagement at environmental disclosure platform CDP. Beyond climate.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER – This statement is the We Mean Business Coalition response to the Glasgow Climate Pact, agreed at COP26. . An updated draft proposal was released by the COP26 Presidency this morning, on the last official day of the conference. READ THE FULL STATEMENT HERE > FRIDAY 12 NOVEMBER – ANALYSIS: .

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 14, 2022

DESCRIPTION: NEW YORK and PARIS, October 14, 2022 /3BL Media/ — The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Forest Positive Coalition of Action has released its second Annual Report , sharing the Coalition’s progress on commitments to remove deforestation, forest degradation, and conversion from key commodity supply chains.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The role of forests as carbon sinks and sources of biodiversity is well recognised, but action to clean-up supply chains is slow to reduce deforestation rates. This explainer looks at how investors can encourage companies to remove the products of deforestation from their supply chains.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Ceres, along with its partners, will call on investors, companies, and policymakers to build on the progress since COP26 and turn commitments into even more ambitious actions and implement bold policies in line with the scientific need to limit average temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Therefore, developing a basic map of your emissions in both your operations and in your supply chain should be the first step. Beyond the company’s operations, there are other emissions produced in the supply chain. Moreover, according to CDP, supply chain emissions are on average 11.4

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Complex Supply Chains designed to run efficiently failed under the pandemic. Restrictions, Brexit regulations, a ship stuck in the Suez Canal, extreme weather events and energy shortages impacted supply chains and prevented firms to meet their demand. ESG trends in 2022: Sustainable Supply Chains.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2022

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. . This is easier said than done. It’s not perfect.

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Sustainability Update

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As reported by Responsible Investor (link below in our Top Stories), the G7 Impact Taskforce that was created in July (under the UK’s presidency of the G7), recently commented about reporting standards being developed by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), an even newer group launched at COP26 in Glasgow.

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