Sustainability Newsletter | June 2024
Over half of the world's GDP heavily relies on nature and its services. TNFD and SBTN are two global frameworks providing essential guidance to help businesses integrate nature and biodiversity into their decision-making. Check out our blog and infographic to learn their approaches and how companies can implement the guidance to embark on their biodiversity journey.
Industry Insights
Making Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACCs) work for decarbonization actions
MACCs are commonly used to assess the cost and mitigation potential of interventions. However, static MACCs often result in outdated and generic analyses. Explore how dynamic MACCs can optimize resource allocation and help you make a real impact on the ground.
Event
Our Chief Strategy Officer, Dr. Sarah Boyd, to speak at Electronics Goes Green 2024+
Sarah will join global practitioners, researchers, and policymakers at this premier ICT sustainability conference in Berlin from June 18-20. Sarah will present a paper on addressing data gaps in life cycle assessments (LCA) and contribute to the workshop on Product Category Rules for ICT equipment.
More corporate sustainability news, resources, and events
- Regulation | EU adopts Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) with requirements on Digital Product Passport.
- Regulation | EU adopts Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) to address negative impacts on human rights and the environment.
- Regulation | More than 50% of the global economy by GDP has announced adoption or alignment with the ISSB Standards.
- Target | SBTi releases plans for the Corporate Net-Zero Standard major revision.
- Target | SBTN appoints the Accountability Accelerator to host target validation services for science-based targets for nature.
- Reporting | CDP Portal is now open for 2024 corporate disclosers, with one integrated questionnaire for water, forests and climate.
- Food | Mars unveils multi-million dollar sustainable dairy plan to help cut methane as part of net zero by 2050 ambition.
- Beverage | Diageo to invest €100M to transform energy and water use at the 264-year-old Guinness brewery.
- Footwear | Allbirds keeps a ‘nerdy’ approach to emissions at the heart of the rescue plan.
- Manufacturing | Lego links salaried employees’ bonuses to decarbonization goals.
- ICT | Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Salesforce pledge to contract for up to 20M tons of high-quality nature-based carbon removal credits by 2030.
- Event | Economist Impact Sustainability Week US, June 12-13, New York and Virtual.
- Event | London Climate Action Week, June 22–30, London.
- Report | Time for Transparency: Deforestation- and conversion-free supply chains. AFi-CDP.
- Report | Global adoption trends for the GRI Tax Standard - An analysis of the use of GRI 207: Tax 2019 by the 1,000 largest public companies worldwide. GRI.
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