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Current State of Water Stewardship Practices: Top 5 Questions Answered

3BL Media

The CDP Global Water Report (2020) informs us that, when it comes to water security, “The cost of inaction is five times the cost of action.”. CDP and Planet Tracker’s High and Dry: How Water Issues Are Stranding Assets , May 2022 report recognizes that “Water risk is already stranding assets across major sectors of the global economy.”.

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Water Risks a “Substantive” Threat to Corporate Value

Chris Hall

Environmental disclosure platform CDP has identified potential value at risk of US$225 billion related to water risk exposure among listed equities. Water insecurity can affect current outputs and constrain future growth in the private sector, said CDP. Water risk factors and stranded assets.

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CDP Adds Reporting on Plastic-Related Impact and Risks to Disclosure System

ESG Today

Climate research provider and environmental disclosure platform CDP announced the launch of the ability for companies to report on plastic-related impacts, following demand from investors for more information on companies’ plastic-related risk and exposure.

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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

CDP found that these financed emissions are on average approximately 700 times higher than the organisation's operational emissions. Change is already underway within the fossil fuel industry, as developments in the Netherlands, United States and Australia indicate. While the process is complex, the pay-offs are considerable.

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AB: ESG in Action - The Human Touch in Interpreting Climate Scenario Analysis

3BL Media

Data and models exist, but they’re incomplete and still developing. The evolving climate drives physical risks—damaged or stranded assets and business-interruption costs from severe weather events. Republic Services is on Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies list and CDP Worldwide’s Climate A List.

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Trends & Opportunities with Standardizing ESG Disclosures in Real Estate

3BL Media

The group brings together frameworks that are referencing or building on the GHG protocol, including the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), CDP, Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB), International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).

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Keeping on the Straight and Narrow

Chris Hall

Only 1% of over 13,000 corporates across 13 industries and 117 countries disclosed against 24 key climate transition plan indicators, according to a 2021 report by sustainability disclosure platform CDP. On 25 April, the UK government launched its Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) to develop a transition plan disclosure framework.