Mandatory Corporate Climate Disclosures: Now, but How?
Companies are not required to disclose the information that investors need to price climate risk. Voluntary frameworks, like the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), do not bring about the necessary change. This has led to mispricing climate risk and capital misallocation, which harms investors ...
Posted on 19/11/21
The Use of Natural Resources in the Economy: A Global Manual on Economy Wide Material Flow Accounting
Material flow accounting provides a statistical framework measuring natural resource extraction, trade in natural resources, waste disposal and emissions. Domestic material consumption and material footprint are used as a proxy for overall environmental pressure within a national economy and the impact of a national e ...
Posted on 18/11/21
Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction: Towards a Zero‑Emission, Efficient and Resilient Buildings and Construction Sector
To limit additional global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius, countries have adopted policies and codes that have a future impact on the emissions and energy efficiency of buildings. Building emissions need to be reduced along their life cycle through a combination of reducing energy demand, decarbonizing the power s ...
Posted on 13/11/21
Ecocide as an International Crime
One solution to the widespread or long-term damage to the environment gaining support is to make ecocide a crime and punishable by international justice. Major events that massively destroy ecosystems would thus fall under the jurisdiction of the international criminal court. This would allow citizens to hold compani ...
Posted on 13/11/21
EU Prepares to Include Nuclear and Gas in Green Investment List
EU countries have been arguing for three years whether to include nuclear and gas as green investments in the taxonomy. The decision will shape EU climate and energy policy for decades and have effects far beyond the financial sector. France, the UK, and Eastern European countries threatened to veto the EU taxonomy ...
Posted on 09/11/21
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