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How Tracking GHG Emissions Accelerates Value and Strengthens Companies

3BL Media

SUMMARY: James Mandel, Blackstone’s Chief Sustainability Officer, and Jake Shirmer, a Principal in Portfolio Operations, explain why tracking greenhouse gas emissions is neither greenwashing nor a compliance checkbox. Rightly understood, then, tracking GHG emissions is neither greenwashing nor a compliance checkbox. link] $BX #GHG.

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How Fortune 500 Companies Set and Measure Sustainability Goals

Strategic Sustainability Consulting

With the SEC seeking input on new climate financial disclosures and activist shareholders at the big oil and gas companies demanding reductions in carbon emissions, many companies are taking climate change seriously. For smaller companies, more than half are using data analytics.

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Pension Plans Increase Focus on ESG Investing for a Sustainable Future

3BL Media

With that comes the necessity for higher quality data and the ability to pull together disparate data sets for investor and regulatory reporting. Net-Zero Commitments In response to growing concerns about climate change, the Government of Canada made a commitment to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Guest Post: When Investment-Grade ESG Data is not Enough

ESG Today

This is encouraging, as it is essential in mobilizing the finance needed to manage climate change, implement the energy transition, and address other environmental and social issues. ESG ratings are questioned, accusations of greenwashing are proliferating, and debate about the purpose and integrity of ESG investing is ongoing.