ESRS-ISSB Standards. Interoperability Guide
This joint interoperability guidance outlines the alignment of disclosure and reporting requirements that an entity starting with each set of standards needs to know to enable compliance, ensuring interoperability. Regardless of whether it starts with the ESRS or ISSB standards, an entity can meet the climate requirements of both sets of standards by following this […]
Batteries and safe energy transition.
This report provides an examination of a technology critical to achieving clean energy transitions and protecting energy security. Batteries will be critical to achieving the energy targets agreed at COP28 in Dubai, tripling renewable energy capacity by 2030, doubling the pace of energy efficiency improvements and transitioning away from renewable energy. Batteries will be critical […]
Responding to the impacts of climate change on human health in Europe: addressing floods, droughts and water quality.
In recent years, Europe has suffered from floods, droughts, rising sea levels, and rising lake and sea temperatures. While the The effects of some of these changes on human health are clear, others, such as droughts, are not yet widely recognized. The European Climate Risk Assessment clearly shows that climate change will exacerbate threats to […]
Report on the Draft Law regulating the Corporate Reporting Framework on environmental, social and governance issues.
Both the reinforcement of the information that companies must offer and the improvement of verification systems should allow the rest of the market players to make decisions with less risk. These measures will create an incentive for companies to redouble their efforts to orient their activity towards environmental objectives and will encourage the entire economic […]
Global electric vehicles. Outlook 2024.
Combining analysis of historical data with projections, the report examines key areas of interest, such as the deployment of electric power, vehicles, and charging infrastructure, battery demand, investment trends, and related policy developments in the markets. It also considers what wider adoption of electric vehicles means for the future. Combining analysis of historical data with […]
CSRD Essentials: The Definitive Guide to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.
Corporate responsibility has evolved significantly, and the European Union, with the adoption of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), is at a decisive, transformative moment for the economy and society. The present work, carried out by various stakeholders in a collaborative way, shows that its rules are quite easy […]
Transitional Measures Package.
Transition plans have become a key element. In fact, there are different international groups and the relevance of transition plans for specific use cases is being assessed, such as corporate understanding of decarbonization, mobilizing finance, addressing potential financial risk issues, and driving non-state actors.
Decarbonizing water.
Water is on the fringes of the climate change conversation, but this report convincingly demonstrates that water security – including the conservation and management of natural resources and infrastructure – has the potential to deliver a “triple win” of improved health for many people and greater climate resilience, while helping to meet the challenge of […]
Transparency in voluntary carbon registries.
This analysis assesses the public availability of project documentation in the four major voluntary carbon market registries: Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), Gold Standard (GS), American Carbon Registry (ACR), and Climate Action Reserve (CAR). These standards were selected as they collectively emit the majority of the world’s carbon emissions (voluntary market).
Report on the Big Carbon Companies database.
In 58 of the 100 companies reviewed, their emissions were higher in the seven years after the Paris Agreement than in the same period before. In the Middle East, this number is 70%, in Europe 57%, in South America 60%, in Australia 75%, and 50% in African companies. North America is the only region where […]
