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TCFD – Sustainability’s Most Potent Acronym?
The call to arms on the climate crisis gets louder and louder for consumers, companies and governments. An alphabet soup of action groupings and regulatory bodies has emerged, but are they themselves doing enough? One of the most robust initiatives is the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), established by G20 Finance Ministers and […]
SBTi
The Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) emerged in 2015 with the world’s first science-based certification. A coalition between CDP, UN Global Compact, World Resource Institute and WWF, the certification provides guidance for companies and financial institutions on how to best reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in order to meet global net-zero. However, does ambition meet […]
You can’t take the ‘S’ out of ESG: Case Study 1
Despite covering just 3 percent of the world’s land, peatlands store twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests, (UNEP) demonstrating just how vital Peatland restoration is in our efforts to reach net-zero. Restoration, however, isn’t simply an effort to capture more carbon. Peatland degradation caused by drainage for agricultural, horticultural and energy production […]
How Nature and Climate Will Benefit from Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing
Monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of carbon captured by trees, crops, soils, hedgerows and other ‘nature assets’ requires effective technology. This is usually by earth observation from satellites where algorithms are used to convert the images obtained to leaf area index and biomass enabling authoritative information on the state of the nature asset and estimates […]