Climate experts from Sphera and the IFRS Foundation discuss how IFRS reporting enhances flexibility and resilience for companies. The session also covers effective methods for conducting climate risk and scenario analysis, as well as quantifying climate transition plans that link GHG inventories with climate targets.
The EU’s omnibus proposal has brought with it significant backlash. Paris and Berlin are posturing to scrap the CSDDD, and companies remain unsure on whether they should or should not report, following the Omnibus Package announcement earlier this year. How can sustainability executives prepare themselves for a world of reporting reduction?
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Steel, cement, chemicals, aluminium, mining, trucking and aviation are known as hard-to-abate industries, yet they account for about one-quarter of global GHG emissions, which need to decline by an astounding 93% by 2050 if the world is to stay on a 1.5 degrees Celsius warming pathway.
To have any chance of getting there, innovation will be key: not just in developing new low-carbon technologies, but in the finance and policy developments that will bring down barriers to allowing new technologies to scale.
With U.S. President Donald Trump set on rolling back billions in funding for industrial decarbonisation, and U.S. trade tariffs in place on commodities such as steel, the outlook is more uncertain than it was a year ago.
COVID-19 dealt a devastating blow to the global tourism industry after two decades of surging growth. In 2020, after the world went into lockdown, tourist arrivals shrank from 1.5 billion to 406 million - levels last seen 30 years ago.
Five years on, tourism numbers have roared back to near 2019 levels, and spending per visitor has surpassed it, with some countries reporting double-digit growth in tourist expenditure.
In the latest issue of Ethical Corporation we look at the implications for the war on DEI both in the U.S. and in Europe and Africa. We also do a deep dive into some of the barriers to progress for women, who are 134 years away from achieving parity with men. We look at what is holding back women in China, in the clean energy sector, on boards in Europe and in U.S. venture capital firms, as well as efforts to extend financial services to women in the Global South.
